Animation &Animation Artifacts &Disney 08 Feb 2012 07:24 am
Roger – Scene 45 – part 3
- Here is the final part of Scene 45 from 101 Dalmatians as animated by Milt Kahl. When this scene was loaned to me, it took less than a mezzo second for me to recognize it. I love it and have studied it frame-by-frame off the video (first a VHS then the DVD) many times. It’s a seminal scene for me. Just gorgeous.
I’ve always loved the first fifteen to twenty minutes of Disney features (at least up
through Sword in the Stone.) Their intelligent introductions of principal characters usually comes in those first few minutes, and it’s always done with class. I think of Pinocchio, Gepetto, and Jiminy Cricket or Dumbo’s birth or Lady as a puppy or Bambi’s birth and discovering the world of the forest or Peter and Tink meeting the Darling children and “Off to Neverland.” These moments are thrilling to me, and usually the rest of the film doesn’t hold up to this.
101 Dalmatians doesn’t fail to deliver in this respect. Exposition and introduction are done so beautifully.
The animation is, for the most part, on twos. There are a couple of ones at the very end ot the scene as Roger shakes his wrist. If you want to visit the first two parts go here for Part 1 or here for Part 2.
We start today with the last drawing from the second post.
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The legs move to their own level at this point.
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A drawing is skipped here (to be inbetweened.)
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A drawing is skipped, needs inbetweening.
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The following QT includes the entire sequence
which includes all drawings posted.
The registration is a bit loose. Sorry but, these are copies of
copies and there’s plenty of shrinkage.
If you click on the right side of the lower bar
you can watch it one frame at a time.
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For more on 101 Dalmatians check out the animator drafts on Hans Perk‘s great and resourceful site, A Film LA. Hans has also posted Bill Peet‘s story treatment for the film several years ago. See it here.
For a look at the art direction of the film including some beautiful reconstructions of the BGs as well as some of the BG layouts go to Hans Bacher‘s great site One1More2Time3.
Andreas Deja has one of the more extraordinary blogs to visit. He just posted some beautiful drawings by some of the key animators on 101 Dalmatians as they set about to find the characters. See them here as well as a comparison of Milt Kahl‘s characters against Bill Peet‘s version. here
For those who own Fraser MacLean‘s excellent book, Setting the Scene, you’ll know that on pages 182-188 there’s an extensive discussion of this opening sequence from the film with plenty of beautiful images of the set.
on 08 Feb 2012 at 4:31 pm 1.The Gee said …
Thanks. With the links you added to what you put up and wrote about you made something substantial. Much appreciated.
on 08 Feb 2012 at 10:14 pm 2.Rusty Mills said …
Link for drawing 255 is broken.
This is a fantastic scene for showing new animators that everything does not need to be on 1′s for feature films. too often today I find animators putting action on 1′s just because they think it makes it better father than looking at their action to see if it needs refining.
Shows how in a masters hand 2′s can work extremely well.
Thanks again for the post.
on 09 Feb 2012 at 12:05 am 3.Michael said …
You’re right about the 2′s, Rusty. I have an Animation Analysis doc where Ham Luske shows how working on fours was the best thing for the scene he’d done in The Tortoise and the hare. Imagine ANYONE at Disney’s doing anything on fours!