Animation Artifacts &Disney &Story & Storyboards 06 Dec 2010 08:19 am
Mickey’s Orphans Story Sketches
- Here from the Mickey in B&W Treasures DVD comes some story sketches from the great, early short, Mickey’s Orphans. It’s valuable to see how much action happens between these drawings, and one wonders if there are other story drawings missing, or did the animators get to play a bit with the action.
This film was done in 1931, and certainly a procedure was developing at the studio in the process of making these films.
Here are the story sketches for this film, and some of them are beauties.
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Hans Perk has posted the draft for this film on his blog, AFilmLA, and I’ll try to put together a visual breakdown of the film to match it.
By the way, what a resource AFilmLA is. Hans is currently posting the draft to Fantasia. What more could we want? Thank you, Hans.
on 06 Dec 2010 at 8:26 am 1.John Celestri said …
Yes indeed, Michael, some of these story sketches are beauties. What are the dimensions of these panels?
on 06 Dec 2010 at 9:49 am 2.Michael said …
I’m pulling these off a DVD, so the only guess I have is that they’re posted at almost full size (in the blown-up versions.)
on 06 Dec 2010 at 10:20 am 3.Stephen Macquignon said …
Some great shots (very bad kitties)
on 06 Dec 2010 at 12:31 pm 4.Eric Noble said …
Excellent post. Were these drawings done by Albert Hurter? Do you know?
on 06 Dec 2010 at 3:23 pm 5.David E. said …
These are amazing… there’s so much energy and joy in these sketches; more than in some entire movies.
on 12 Dec 2010 at 10:40 am 6.Lorelei said …
thanks so much for posting these. I was excited to see the fun antics of all the naughty kittens, and decided to go and look at the animation to see what translated into the final form. Just about everything is there, and sometimes more!
During this studio period, can anyone take a guess at how much the board artist worked with the animators/director before and during creating the boards? I’m wondering how much of this might have been left up to the board artist alone, and what was group effort.
on 12 Dec 2010 at 11:34 am 7.Michael said …
I would guess (and it is just a guess) that the board artists had little to do with the animators and a lot to do with the director. Disney, of course, approved everything that got made, so he acted as the ultimate link between the artists.
on 21 Dec 2010 at 9:27 am 8.Hans Perk said …
I am cross-referencing to this page, as I have a little posting up that shows the size of the red rectangles on 1930′s Disney storyboard paper here: http://afilmla.blogspot.com/2010/12/30s-storyboard-paper.html