Disney &Frame Grabs 12 Jan 2009 09:09 am
Witch
- It’s not always easy to kill a witch. This sequence from Snow White couldn’t be designed better. It’s short, it’s tense, it’s a tight sequence that handily does its job. The witch is killed in record time. Today, the sequence would be dragged out for half the length of the film.
Some of these drawings are great.
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on 12 Jan 2009 at 10:28 am 1.bill said …
Gorgeous! I really love the Fred Moore drawings of the dwarfs.
on 12 Jan 2009 at 10:45 am 2.Paul Spector said …
Wow!
on 12 Jan 2009 at 11:07 am 3.Robert Cowan said …
A very nice segment! All too often, the images you see are the cute ones and not from this part of the film.
Thanks for posting them…
Bob
on 12 Jan 2009 at 11:58 am 4.Dave Levy said …
You ain’t kidding about how long such sequences would be in today’s features. While I enjoyed Monsters, Inc.. Toy Story 2, etc… I always settle in for some fatigue when the 30 minute epic chase/conclusion starts in those films… Its as if every animated feature needs to recreate a rollercoaster ride these days… but, an actual rollercoaster ride is brief and that’s part of its appeal.
on 12 Jan 2009 at 1:24 pm 5.Jason said …
Wow! The close up of the Queen is amazing! I forgot about the buzzards descending to feed on her at the end. Truly haunting.
on 12 Jan 2009 at 1:46 pm 6.Luke Farookhi said …
Excellent storyboards! The staging and lighting are like a Murnau film; the mood is very thrilling and dramatic. Drawing no. 37 has something of Hieronymus Bosch about it.
on 12 Jan 2009 at 4:46 pm 7.Henk_K said …
Inspiring boarding, feels and reads incredibly good while keeping the pace up.
on 12 Jan 2009 at 11:53 pm 8.Jenny said …
Jaw-dropping.
I’d love to know who drew what here…probably there’s no ID at all from the morgue’s records.
A couple of the drawings do look like they could be Fred Moore’s(or an incredible facsimile). If so, Fred worked over another person’s layout of the rocks etc., I’d think.
Wouldn’t many of these double as workbook drawings?
The closeups are really something else..these guys were just amazing. Don’t you wish we could tell them so? Though I suppose they got a hell of a satisfaction in this being such a monster hit–critically and otherwise.
on 13 Jan 2009 at 5:21 am 9.Kellie Strøm said …
The compositions in this sequence are great – I suspect that kind of dramatic tension in the frame would be harder to achieve in a wider format than Academy ratio.