I loved animating these scenes. The tiger is being pushed from a cliff into a river. By Sarah and Alex. I won't give you the story context here, but this moment is part of the MUSHKA trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnTL5h3GC6g&t=4s
It is extremely comforting when you realize that you can animate such a scene without any reference. These are actually poses for the storyboard, but I also used them as a guide for the animation. After drawing tigers at the local zoo, studying footage of them frame by frame, you get to a point where you just wing it. Gut feeling, intuition. Of course Daniel Ernesto's beautiful water splash animation sure helped to make this a convincing scene.
At Disney I hardly ever had the chance to do action scenes. I needed to focus on personality shots. But on MUSHKA I was able to do both, and I loved it. Figuring out the proper pacing for an action sequence was absolutely thrilling. You try to escalate the danger before things come to a halt. And then the resolve.
Woolie Reitherman talked about this in several interviews. And I definitely kept that in mind.
Das Comic Jahrbuch 2023 ist bei mir eingetroffen. Wieder mit einem umfangreichen Artikel über das internationale Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart. 😊
ReplyDeleteNach der Einleitung beginnt der Autor Thorsten Hanisch:
"...Eines der größten, vielleicht sogar das größte Highlight für viele Besucher und für nicht wenige wahrscheinlich eine nostalgische Reise durch die Kindheit dürfte wohl der Besuch des Disney-Trickfilmzeichners Andreas Deja gewesen sein..."
...Es gab noch mehr schöne Worte, aber mehr sollte ich nicht zitieren.
Und mit 7 Euro 50 für das Jahrbuch wäre es ohnehin ein schönes Andenken an das Festival!
Die Portokosten und das ganze drum herum, um es in die USA zu schicken. Da ginge es vielleicht besser unter icomic@t-online.de nach einer digital Ausgabe zu fragen...
Viel Glück! 😊
Das freut mich!
DeleteI just interviewed Courtney DiPaola last week for my Pencil Pushers Podcast. What a great story she had of her journey as an animator! Can't wait to see Mushka.
ReplyDeleteCourtney was very important to MUSHKA.
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