Animation &Commentary &Disney 08 Sep 2008 08:01 am
Dopey Distortion
- Here’s some Bill Tytla distortion that you should take a good look at. Dopey has water in his ears and shakes his head (like a dog) to get the water out.
Take a look at the final heads as the shape of Dopey’s face and head changes. It’s a beautiful piece of animation. The volume remains completely intact as everything else about the head shifts. Yet, the whole feels as though it retains its form. Using graphic distortion, the scene becomes funny and strong and is wholly Dopey in a three dimensional way.
I’d like to know what an Assistant got to do.
I have to admit I was amazed in doing this simple little exercise of taking the drawings – despite the fact that some are missing – and put them on one’s and simply run them one after the other to make the QT film at the end. Yet, once I put the drawings into motion, they became something else. It’s quite the heart and soul of what animation really is.
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on 08 Sep 2008 at 7:51 pm 1.Paul Spector said …
Nothing I can add about his head, but I love the way Dopey’s body also swivels just a touch when he hits his head. That’s not the way it’s done in “real life” (yes, like a dope myself, I hit my head a few times to test my theory) and my torso stayed put, but I always “imagined” it that it moved whenever I had to clear water out the ear in this fashion.
on 09 Sep 2008 at 2:44 am 2.Eddie Fitzgerald said …
‘Lots of fun to see this, and you’re right, the still drawings that become something else in motion have a lot to do with why we all love this medium so much!