Animation Artifacts &Books &Disney &Story & Storyboards 09 Dec 2008 09:00 am
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- Bill Tytla‘s animation of the devil from Night on Bald Mountain, featured yesterday, couldn’t be further away from the dwarfs he animated in Snow White. (Fred Moore was his partner in the task of supervising the dwarfs.) In this film, he had seven characters to animate, seven characters to give real characterization in somewhat short screen time. All seven had to have personalities that could be recognized within moments. It helped, of course, that they were defined by their names, but getting that across without cliché was no mean feat.
Here are some storyboard drawings, art direction sketches which would have helped lead through the washing song sequence.
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I featured Tytla’s animation for this sequence in another post – here.
A couple of drawings shown below.
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Doc kisses Grumpy. How the times have changed.
This one looks like it might be a Tytla rough.
Soup’s on!
This is a bar of soap that occupies a fly.
This is the washtub.
This is the exterior background where the setpiece takes place.
on 09 Dec 2008 at 3:35 pm 1.Eric Noble said …
I love these. Where do you get all of these drawings? I’ll have to study those Bill Tytla roughs, along with what Freddy Moore did.
I think the Dwarves make the whole film, along with the Wicked Queen. I don’t like Snow White that much. She was beautifully animated in some scenes, but she was never that interesting.
on 09 Dec 2008 at 11:49 pm 2.Pete Emslie said …
I am constantly in awe of the watercolour backgrounds, not only in “Snow White”, but also in all of the Disney shorts of that period. Fact is, I’ve never been able to figure out how those guys were achieving such effects. Do any of your readers know what sort of surface they were using – was it actual watercolour paper or a type of illustration board? There doesn’t appear to be any real discernible tooth to it, as the rendering is so soft and smooth. In painting several “Snow White” childrens’ books for Disney publishers over the years, I always used very dilute gouache on cold press board to approximate that look, as I was never able to come close with real watercolours. It’s such a mystery to me!
on 10 Dec 2008 at 4:45 pm 3.Matt Jones said …
GREAT POST!! Did you see the Fred Moore Archive blog!