Animation &Animation Artifacts &Richard Williams &Tissa David 09 Oct 2007 08:09 am
Raggedy Tissa
- Tissa David did some of her most elaborate and fluid animation in Raggedy Ann and Andy. Her first scene to animate (after the pilot) was the introduction to her song number. This scene was a whopping long one and was particularly elaborate. It was also the first whole scene put into production.
The cameraman Al Rezek constructed a makeshift multiplane setup for it. This was a bit difficult to do in Panavision, but he did it. There had to be an ominous shadow of a bush overlapping the pair of dolls as they entered the deep dark woods. The scene must have been shot a dozen or more times until we were happy with it.
I have all the drawings to this scene, rough and clean up. There are a lot of them. I’ll post a couple of Tissa’s roughs here to give you an idea of the scene. Dick Williams cleaned it up, himself, and it took him a while. In a future posting, when I have more energy I’ll post more of the roughs against Dick’s clean ups.
I’m also posting some frame grabs from a bad pirated dvd version I have of the film.
(Click any image to enlarge.)
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on 09 Oct 2007 at 8:30 am 1.Rudy Agresta said …
Hi Michael,
Thanks for posting this today. A beautiful piece of animation done by a totally consumate artist. This is one of my favorite pieces of animation and I never tire watching it and studying it.
Looking forward to the ruffs & clean-ups.
Also, thank you again for your wonderful SPLOG!
Rudy
on 09 Jun 2008 at 7:05 pm 2.David said …
If anyone is interested a fairly nice looking version of Tissa’s Candy Hearts sequence has shown up on YouTube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXG2MOm3DM0
Until an official DVD comes out this will have to do.