As I am working on the Milt Kahl book, I started to select images of drawings that I feel are important to be included. There will be a large chapter on Milt's work for Sleeping Beauty. And I do have drawings that have not appeared yet on my blog or elsewhere online.
I am looking for Milt's rough animation of the scene pictured here. Hubert is frustrated upon finding out that his son doesn't want to marry the princess, but a girl he had just met in the forest.
This is a long scene, and Milt gives a masterful performance of Hubert's outrage.
Many rough drawings and scenes from this film have been made available over the past two decades or so, and I have been lucky to acquire a nice inventory. But I have not yet seen any offerings from this scene. Let me know if you are the owner of some of the key drawings. I would love to include them in the book.
I would need scans, and you'll get a free copy of the book.
Man, if I had any roughs from this scene I'd gladly just give them to you as thanks for covering Milt's work in Sleeping Beauty. Unfortunately, I don't.
ReplyDelete[We've all heard how Milt hated animating the dialog between the King & the Prince ---feeling he was doing "a nothing scene" with no opportunities for showing off his animation skills. I guess his sentiments prove what a UCLA Art Professor said to me about Egon Schiele's expressed contempt for his "Girl In A Fur-Trimmed Coat": "Great artists are so intent on pushing the envelope, they tend to undervalue their own design talent."
Even if this scene isn't exactly a gasser, no one could have arrived at better designs for these two characters].
Oh, I actually think it is one of Milt's best scenes.
DeleteMilt also said he found nothing interesting in Madame Bonfamille. His animation on that character is such a high as far as realistic, expressive animation.
Stuff he found boring to do, we drool over.