Animation &Animation Artifacts &Disney 11 Apr 2011 06:10 am
Ichabod’s Ride
- Frank Thomas did the brilliant ride of Ichabod Crane about to meet the Headless Horseman. Here’s a flip book that was prepared by Disney which was published in The Illusion of Life, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston’s book (pg. 467-521). I have a photographic copy of the images and can post them significantly larger than the book offers. I’ve also done a QT for them.
The registration isn’t all it could be. I know the N/S is correct, but have no guidance for the E/W so took a stab at it. I’m also assuming that many of the drawings are not included, so I just exposed it on threes.
The assisting on this scene is beautiful (as is the animation.)
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Here’s a QT of the scene with drawings exposed on threes to accomodate some missing drawings.
There have also been published a few other images from a continuation of this scene by Thomas. I’ve scanned those and post them below.
This page is from John Canemaker’s book The Nine Old Men and
the Art of Animation, with the Frank Thomas chapter.
They look like they immediately follow the images chosen for the flip book.
This image comes from the Walt Disney Archive series: Animation.
on 11 Apr 2011 at 7:16 am 1.Steven Hartley said …
Oh yes, I’ve definately know that Frank Thomas did these scenes. Very nice acting here. Frank always does a lot of fancy work in his films.
I believe that John Sibley animates Ichabod and his horse fleeing from the Headless Horseman. I wonder if John Lounsbery animated Ichabod while the plants hit the log. I’m not sure – but I heard that Lounsbery was also involved around here.