It is worth spending time studying these clean up drawings from the famous Frank Thomas scene.
Inspired by story sketches from Joe Rinaldi, Frank outdid himself, if that's even possible.
His emotional acting and timing are beyond belief. There is no live action reference that would give you a kick start. It's all in the imagination and craft of the animator to pull off this scene in which two dogs fall in love over a spaghetti dinner.
I think it's one of the most perfect scenes ever animated at Disney. I remember Frank talking about the part where Tramp nudges the last meatball over to Lady. He needed to compromise dog anatomy in order to pull this off. "No real dog can get into a position like this" he said. He was talking about Tramp's staging, and how he would have to use a completely different pose to be anatomically correct. But that went out the window in favor of getting the right feeling across.
(This part of the scene is not represented here.)
I know that Iwao Takamoto supervised Lady's clean up drawings. I don't know who did Tramp, but I wouldn't be surprised if Iwao did him as well in this scene.
Animation acting and drawing on the highest level! To all animation students:
Study the dimensional volumes of the characters. Eyes, eye lids, eye lashes, the configuration of Tramp's muzzle and its squash and stretch.
Notice how Lady's and Tramp's attention throughout is with off screen Tony and Joe, who are playing romantic music and singing "Bella Notte".
And how cool that animation can be this extraordinary!!
Here is the link to a previous post on this scene:
ooh boy, that's the good stuff. I think the animation, layouts, BGs, cel painting, everything in this film is super SUPER high-level. You can see some of the pencil animation here
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I've been learning a little more about cleanup recently, and there's a lot more to it than I expected. I'd definitely like to know more about your working relationship with your cleanup animators in the past!
Hey Andreas,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing.
Could you enlighten us about the function on the red lines?
Thanks
Odi
it's where the lines on the cels change colours.
DeleteFor comparison, look at the cel in this picture
http://animationartstudio.com/sites/default/files/pageimages/BN-.jpg
Thanks. Now I feel silly. ^_^
DeleteHey Andreas! I just found out that you illustrated a version of Puss in Boots, could you tell us a bit about that please? there's not much information online
ReplyDeleteThat book is nothing to write home about. My illustrations are too Disney. I did it for the folks who published Storyboard Magazine years ago.
Deleteah, well the cover looks cool, anyway!
DeleteThanks for sharing this wonderful bit of Magic...so Great!
ReplyDeleteHi, Andreas! Willie Ito assisted on this scene as well. You might contact him for info.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dan. I will contact Willie Ito. It will be great to know who all was involved in this scene.
DeleteHi Andreas,
ReplyDeleteI work for BBC Newsbeat would you be able to send me a message so that I could have a chat with you about a story? Coranelliott@gmail.com Thanks Coran
This scene is one of my favourite scenes of animation and one of my favourite scenes of movie history too!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing! :-)