Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Lounsbery & Johnston

I know you guys like to watch and study classic pencil tests as much as I do.
So here are a couple more:
The first one is the tied down version of the Mr Darling scene I talked about
yesterday. I wished I had a rough animation version of it, but this is still very cool.

The second test will be a surprise to you. A scene by Ollie Johnston of a typical
Fred Moore girl. Done obviously in the early forties, maybe for a propaganda film,
a moral booster for the troops ?
I think it is adorable.








28 comments:

  1. John Lounsbery is incredible. What are all those marks on his clothing, are they indicating what paint to use?

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  2. Excellent post once again, Andreas. I especially love the "surprise" pencil test by Ollie. Definitely a "morale booster". *click* *click*

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  3. ....Yeah. I'm sorry for the above comment. I'm stupid that way.

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  4. So inspiring. Lounsbery's Mr. Darling animation is the kind of dynamic gestural animating I would love to eventually be able to do!

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  5. Hi mister. Having you over here is super great for us bloggers interested in animation. It's weird since I knew about you through books and now you are here. I had seen some of your posts and it's greatly useful stuff.

    I really hope you continue with us!

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  6. Wow, absolutely incredible! Love these. Thanks so much for sharing, Andreas!

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  7. Great stuff. I'm hoping to see some of your work as well Mr. Deja!

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  8. wow..i love line test always..Do you have the `Thumbnail` of a scene from these master? then we could easily understand the thought process of an animator how he thinks and breakdown his scenes..
    it would be great help..
    Cheers...
    Arif

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  9. Awesome blog. Thanks for all the great insight.

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  10. Thank you so much for sharing everything you have posted. It could not be more inspiring, and truly exciting to see all of this. We are all nerding out. Thank you!

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  11. Hi Shane,
    nerding out is a good thing. More to come.

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  12. Hallo Andreas,

    Great blog! I was wondering whether you have also copies of x-sheets from any Nine Old Men's scenes. I always wanted to know which kind of action notes they wrote when planning out the animation.
    Danke Schön!!

    Arturo

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  13. Thanks for keeping up with all the posts Andreas! I really love everything you are putting up (and wish it was all mine!). Love the Louns stuff, he's so good! Ollie, just naughty.

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  14. I love the work of Lounsbery.
    This scene is really wonderful!
    Thanks for sharing.

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  15. Haha, wow! The second one was definitely unexpected!

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  16. Few things in this world are as bewitching as a good pencil test! Magical!

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  17. that Ollie test is so nice! its insane that she feels so plush....moving drawings rock! :)

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  18. Great blog! Maybe you can post some stuff about Art Babbitt? I found this video from 1987 on YouTube about Art (you're in it) and I thought you maybe you have some more insight you could share?

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  19. It's a real gift seeing the rough animation and sketches of both gentleman. Ollie's roughs make so easy to see how much respect he had for Fred Moore. If you ever put a donate button, I'd be willing to contribute for all the work you've done in putting this together.

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  20. Jeremy,
    aren't you nice, thanks, I am managing fine.
    I've had this art for a long time, and it feels great, that it is going out, and that it inspires so many of you.

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  21. Ollie Johnston handling a dirty scene? Not the first time he did a Fred Moore girl type - he did girls in "Casey at the Bat", "The Pastoral Symphony" and "Reason and Emotion." It appears to be some project by Disney that was abandoned.

    John Lounsbery's animation of George is pretty good, but I know that he did excellent animation of Captain Hook in the Skull rock with Tiger Lily, Frank Thomas hadn't much involvement in that sequence. Woolie Reitherman, of course, does the Hook-and-Crocodile shots.

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  22. Ollie draws such pretty girls. He's really underrated in that resepct, actually.

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  23. Nudity! She is very lovely, kinda creepy how her eyes fadeout at the end.

    And I love seeing the written dialog in the clip of Mr. Darling (one of my dream last names BTW). Very cool,

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  24. Oh my! I just adore this cross-pollination between Moor and Johnston. A comparison of two generations. I see in Johnston's art the same sense of deference you have when you speak of the Nine Old Men. Animation during World War II always interested me, the propaganda shorts forced the artists to adopt a more stylized approach to animation. The female was eroticized to the maximum extent in Reason and Emotion and Education for Death (I found that lady Germany behave worse than The Black Cauldron's Orddu when the frog ends where it should not be.) Moore's ladies was so 30s and they bid the audience goodbye in Fantasia's Pastoral. War animation, aiming to appeal adults nire than children, changed the way to represent women forever, starting a new era (that would eventually end with Davis stylized animation of Aurora). I adored the female characters in the package movies too, the ladies in Casey at the bat, the one buying Alice Bluebonnet and of course Misses Katrina Van Tassel and Slue Foot Sue. All of them led to my favorite leasing lady, Cinderella. (The things I love about Cinderella is the double soul she has. Eric Larson conceived the girl as a plump peasant girl, in doing so it brings memories back to Moore ladies. Davis, on the other hand, concived her as an exotic beauty, pushing the advancement of the medium (when she speak with the Fairy Godmother I can not help but think about Leslie Caron in Gigi, her face is almost identical when Verna Felton says "bless you my child", of course this is not intetional, since Gigi was released eight years later). The Ink and Paint Girls was as good as ever in armonizing the two sides of this wonderful girl.

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  25. My guess is the Ollie test shot never saw a ray of sunshine outside the studio walls at Disney! I wonder if Walt ever viewed it? Or would Ollie dare show it to Walt?! Brilliant, nonetheless. :)

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