Animation &Animation Artifacts &Richard Williams 08 Oct 2012 07:24 am
Gramps – anew
- I have the CU drawings done by Richard Williams for a small scene from Raggedy Ann & Andy. I had thought the original animation was done by Spencer Peel, though I’m not sure. The drafts seem to credit Gerry Chiniquy.
For the first half of the film, Dick spent much of the film holed up while assisting and inbetweening many of the animators at the film’s start. In doing this, he was also able to rework and retime the animation and, thus, have control over it all. Once Dick became involved in a scene, it’s hard to say who animated it.
The problem was that the director has bigger things to do that affect the big picture.
This scene, beautifully cleaned up, is typical of these playroom scenes. And yet, as far as I can tell this was eliminated from the final film. I don’t have time to check the actual film, but the drafts indicate that scene 2.1 / 16 was taken out of the movie. I’ll look at the film just to make sure, but it looks pretty certain to me.
This is a model sheet taken from a similar scene in Raggedy Ann.
It’s obvious that his POV has shifted from left to right, and that may be
the reason for eliminating the scene pictured below.
The scene started out with 32 drawings, but it seems that Dick eliminated three of them (27-29) to hit an accent a bit harder than was done in the original animation.
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Dick had a unique animation and cleanup style. He would draw
his drawings incredibly light going quickly through the entire scene.
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The pencil line of that first round was almost invisible.
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Then he’d go back and work over those lines
just as lightly and just as quickly.
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then he’d do it again, and again, and again.
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This gave him the opportunity of changing and adjusting as he went along.
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It also is a method somewhat similar to the one
that Tytla and Ferguson used in the 1930s. They’d
go for the “forces” and then go back and build up from there.
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Williams used his light pencil lines to build up around his forces.
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Oddly the animation style is unlike Tytla and Ferguson and
more like the tight constructed, planned style of Babbitt.
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Here’s a QT of the cycle with a mix of one’s and two’s.
