Animation &Animation Artifacts &Richard Williams 05 Oct 2007 09:32 am
Raggedy Celebration
- As I mentioned a few weeks back, ASIFA/Hollywood is planning a reunion of the crew of Raggedy Ann to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of that film’s production. This ASIFA event will be at the American Film Institute in Hollywood on November 17th. It’s hoped that a simultaneous reunion can happen in New York City, but I still wonder about that coming together.
Regardless, this is good reason to post art from the film and keep posting it until the event.
Sooooooo . . .
Here are some animation drawings/ roughs by Corny Cole. His artwork is close to Johnny Gruelle’s originals. He, of course, was the film’s origninal designer, though I’m not sure how his designs related to the final screen picture.
Corny did every drawing (partial inbetweens) though I’m only posting extremes. All this art was done on paper 19″ x 10.5″ for Panavision proportions. (And this was the small paper we used.) Of course, there’s an animated zoom in the scene. It wouldn’t be a Corny Cole scene without it. Here are Corny’s extremes:
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on 05 Oct 2007 at 9:37 pm 1.Eddie Fitzgerald said …
Beautiful draughtsmanship! It’s also interesting how Corny does an animated camera movement around to a new angle.
on 12 Oct 2007 at 10:42 pm 2.Ward said …
Simply amazing. I can’t imagine how long it took to animate the entire film.