To be honest with you, Bernard and Bianca aren't my favorite designs for Disney mice, but when Ollie Johnston draws them...how can you not love these characters?!
Just like his mentor Fred Moore, Ollie's work has always such appeal. These are big drawings on 16 field paper. They had to be part of a pose test, because there is no way drawing #7 can follow #6 without any inbetweens.
So much emotion in these sketches! His words of wisdom to us young animators was:
"Don't put drawings on paper, put feelings on paper!"
In retrospect, that was the best animation advice I had ever gotten.
those are beautiful!! you can feel the emotion!
ReplyDeleteI don't think that he used Bernard's pose in drawing "6" in the end. His pose at the end of the scene is tilted that way, but it's not exactly the same. The gestural strokes with the soft pencil are gorgeous though. I think that Ollie's way of working thought-to-thought is exactly the way to go with a scene like this
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Beautiful drawings! Did Ollie ever comment on The Rescuers Down Under?
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