This is a beautiful example of classic Stretch and Squash. The beaver opens his mouth extremely wide as he holds the top part of Lady's muzzle right between his upper and lower teeth. This is top notch staging because you want the audience to focus on the upcoming bite. The beaver's stretched open mouth is an anticipation in animation terms, but the viewer is also left anticipating and wondering if the bite will be successful. And you guessed it, the animator is Milt Kahl.
To see a few rough animation drawings of this character by Eric Larson, go here:
https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2015/02/eric-larson-on-lady-tramp.html
Great scenes. Do you know if Milt finalised the design for this character? Or was it Eric?
ReplyDeleteIt was (as usual) Milt Kahl:
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Thank you. I like how you mentioned how expressive the eyes are, despite being small. That's the part that caught my attention.
DeleteWondeful scene!
ReplyDeleteHere's the drawings put together
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They're super clean drawings, I guess this is after the assistants went over them?
Yes, these are clean ups over Milt's roughs.
DeleteAny idea of the name of the key assistant who did these clean-up drawings ? At this time was Milt working with only one Key Asst. (Iwao Takamoto and Stan Green are two names often mentioned as having been Milt's assistants) or did different Key Assistants have responsibility for cleaning-up different characters that Milt animated throughout the film ?
DeleteThese drawings could be by Iwao Takamoto, who was responsible for Lady's clean ups.
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