Animation &Animation Artifacts &Hubley &Tissa David &walk cycle 14 Aug 2007 07:56 am
Georgia walk
– Finishing up posts featuring artwork from John & Faith Hubley’s Cockaboody, I have this walk cycle from Tissa David.
Tissa is careful not to use too much paper. Hence she reuses old paper for her very rough preliminaries as she figures out her animation.
It’s frequent, when visiting her work space, to see lots of pages featuring char-acters on both sides of the paper upside down as well as sideways. She doesn’t often let these rough roughs out of her hands before she throws them out. I guess I was there at the right time and talked her into giving me these drawings.
She animates the walk, here, on top pegs bacause that’s all she has left of space. Tissa nomally works on bottom pegs. Actually, since this is going to be a sliding cel, it would have been done top pegs anyway.
Georgia, the younger girl, leaves the bathroom and moves to the floor to play with a doll (whose head she accidentally pulls off).
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The walk is heavy and a bit flatfooted. She doesn’t come down on her toes but plants the entire foot.
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Her arms are high because, a baby, she’s still a bit off balance.
on 14 Aug 2007 at 11:28 pm 1.Erik Westlund said …
It is just wonderful getting these little glimpses behind he scenes of Cockaboody. Was the reuse of animation paper something Tissa David learned out of necessity and never let go of…? or was there more to it than that?
I am glad for you to have the opportunity to gather these original drawings.
I am grateful for the fact that you share these images and the history behind them.