This article was published at the end of 1973 to help promote Disney's Robin Hood. (The footnote after the article is by Richard Williams.)
While it includes some good good information about Milt's research before he actually animates, most of the quotes just don't sound like him. I doubt that Milt went to the LA zoo regularly, he much preferred studying live action film of animal motion at the studio on his moviola. "The film required about 35.000 individual drawings"...?? Where does that ridiculously low number come from?
This reminds me of the utterly uninformed TV hostess from Dallas, who tried to interview Milt around the same time:
http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2012/11/milt-kahl-talks-robin-hood.html
As great as it is to find a newspaper article on any Disney animator, take this one with a grain of salt.
Milt's beautiful size comparison sheet, featuring some of the main characters. What a great variety of shapes and volumes.
These couple of drawings show how Milt went over John Lounsbery's poses for the Sheriff of Nottingham.
A model sheet made up of rough key drawings from Milt's animation of Little John.
The range of expressions, the appeal...speechless!
These drawings from Robin hood remind me that Andrea Blasich recently made a beautiful sculpture of the sheriff, you can see it here :
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amazing work :-)
Those aren't even foxes in that photo! All of those quotes seem like they are from a 'spokesman'. Maybe the real Kahl was too much for them. Is that the same 'National Enquirer' that always has insane headlines?
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DeleteCinderella the live action looks differante from the animate version it looks like Walt Disney did not make it before in the midelle of the 1940s about the story betwene Cinderella and the prince about the romance how thay meet in the forest before the ball, may be he think its not going to work so that is why he put it in the closet the Early concept art, after he died meny years later in 2012 wen Disney are développement the live action its like unrape a big mystery of the origine story juste like Malefecent.
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ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of the utterly uninformed TV hostess from Dallas, who tried to interview Milt around the same time:
http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2012/11/milt-kahl-talks-robin-hood.html
That is typical of the clueless media trying to figure out what animation is. I'm sure it's still this way today.
Except today they'd have to figure out how many polygons went into a character instead. XD It's unfortunate but you can hardly find any 2D character animation these days, even the Japanese seem to be giving it up.
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