Sketch and Draw Micky Mouse
The Magic of Disney Animation - Hand Drawn Cels
Animation historians love to say "It all started with a mouse". In fact it actually began with a visionary named Walt Disney.
From the early years in Kansas City with the likes of Ub Iwerks, Hugh Harmon and Rudy Ising. Walt Disney went on to become the single most important man in the history of animation. His legacy is a veritable who's who of animated characters; Snow White, Donald Duck, Pinocchio, Alice, Bambi, Cinderella, and of course, Mickey Mouse.
The Process of Animation
1. A storyboard is made, all the animators and directors come together to discuss the entire film.
2. The storyboards are presented as the story
3. Once the story is laid out, the dialogue is recorded. This is done before animation, so the animators know what the characters will say.
4. After the dialogue is recorded, the animators can make rough sketches of just the characters. Usually these drawings are quite messy, there is still no color, or background. Some animated films have used over 50,000 individual drawings.
At most animation studios, the best animators only sketched a few animation drawings, leaving gaps in between. Later on, a person called an "inbetweener" would finish the scenes, by drawing in between the areas that the animator had left.
5. Once the entire film has been drawn on paper, the animation drawings go to the inking department. There, the inkers copy the animation drawings on to a clear celluloid acetate, sometimes called a Cel.
6. After the outline of the characters has been made, the unfinished Cel's go to the Painting Department. The painters flip the Cel over, and paint the colors on the back. They paint on the back so the characters appear crisp, and have an outline.
7. Before the Animation Cels get photographed a background must be added. Because a Cel is clear, and it only has the painted character on it, if a background is made, it will show through. Usually backgrounds are painted with Tempera or Water Color paint. Although, in some Disney productions, the background was painted on glass, and combined with other glass painted backgrounds to create the illusion of extreme movement. (This technique is use in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.)
8. Now all the combined elements (the Cel and the background) can be photographed. Although, the final product is not filmed with a normal projector, or camera. A special device, with a lens mounted facing down on to a table top captures each frame of the animated feature. Usually, the background is placed into a special mount, then covered with the Cel, then covered with a large piece of glass, then photographed.
9. After all the drawings have been filmed, the dialogue is added. Sometimes the film is edited at this step.
10. The animated film is released, and the general public may view it.
From: www.justdisney.com/animation/animation.html
Now some history from Wikipedia
Although the animation studio was first established on October 16, 1923, Walt Disney began the move into features in 1934, pulling selected animators away from the short subjects division that had previously been the whole of Walt Disney Productions. The result was the first full-length animated feature in English and Technicolor, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White became an unprecedented success when it was released to theatres in February 1938, and it and many of the subsequent feature productions became film classics.
These first features were presented as being made in 'multiplane technicolor', since both the multiplane camera and the full-color Technicolor process were still something new in the area of animation. The early high-water mark came with Fantasia, an experimental film produced to an accompanying orchestral arrangement conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
Production of features was temporarily suspended due to World War II, between the releases of Bambi and Cinderella. This was partly because many of the animators got drafted, partly because the European market was cut off by the war, and partly because a huge amount of what the studio produced was for the army, especially propaganda films. From 1942 to 1943, 95 percent of the studio's animation was for the military.[1]
The next several features consisted of package films composed of short subjects, some already pre-existing. Two, Song of the South and So Dear to My Heart, where a combination of animated and live-action footage. Production of original features resumed after World War II, leading to the 1950 release of Cinderella, proving the viability of the animated feature. Several hits followed throughout the 1950s.
Sleeping Beauty provided a stylistic shift for the studio, leading to renewed interest through the 1960s. However, all these features were very expensive undertakings. Some of these films sustained losses and did not recoup their costs until decades after their original releases. In 1962, Walt Disney shut down the corporation's short subject department, focusing its attention mainly on television and feature film production, with the occasional short subject
The Animation studio is noted for creating a number of now-standard innovations in the animation industry, including:
The multiplane camera (for Snow White, but first used in the Academy-award winning short "The Old Mill")
The realistic animation of special effects and human characters (for Snow White)
Advanced composition processes to combine live-action and animated elements using color film (for The Three Caballeros)
The use of xerography in animation to transfer drawings to cels as opposed to ink-tracing (developed for One Hundred and One Dalmatians, but first tested in a few scenes in Sleeping Beauty and first fully used in the Academy-award nominated short Goliath II)
The use of all-digital methods for painting, compositing, and recording animated features CAPS (Computer Animation Production System)
The technique for rendering animations in a painterly style (Tangled)
Among its significant achievements are:
The first animated feature in Technicolor (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
The first major motion picture in stereophonic sound (Fantasia)
The first animated feature in CinemaScope (Lady and the Tramp)
The first large format animated film (the 70 mm Sleeping Beauty)
The first Disney animated feature to use computer-generated imagery (The Black Cauldron)
The first Disney animated feature making heavy use of CGI computer animation (Oliver & Company)
The first Disney animated feature to use digital coloring (The Little Mermaid, which introduced Disney's CAPS process)
The first feature film to be shot using a 100% digital process (The Rescuers Down Under, CAPS)
The first animated feature to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the only nominee for Best Picture to be traditionally-animated (Beauty and the Beast)
The first Disney animated feature to gross $200 million, and the highest-grossing film of 1992 (Aladdin)
The highest grossing traditionally-animated film of all time (The Lion King)
The largest film premiere with over 100,000 viewers (Pocahontas)
The first Disney animated feature making heavy characters (Hercules)
The most expensive animated film ever made costing $260m (Tangled)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Animation_Studios
Also see:
www.disneyanimation.com/aboutus/history.html
And
www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=disn...
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Sketch and Draw Micky Mouse
The Magic of Disney Animation - Hand Drawn Cels
Animation historians love to say "It all started with a mouse". In fact it actually began with a visionary named Walt Disney.
From the early years in Kansas City with the likes of Ub Iwerks, Hugh Harmon and Rudy Ising. Walt Disney went on to become the single most important man in the history of animation. His legacy is a veritable who's who of animated characters; Snow White, Donald Duck, Pinocchio, Alice, Bambi, Cinderella, and of course, Mickey Mouse.
The Process of Animation
1. A storyboard is made, all the animators and directors come together to discuss the entire film.
2. The storyboards are presented as the story
3. Once the story is laid out, the dialogue is recorded. This is done before animation, so the animators know what the characters will say.
4. After the dialogue is recorded, the animators can make rough sketches of just the characters. Usually these drawings are quite messy, there is still no color, or background. Some animated films have used over 50,000 individual drawings.
At most animation studios, the best animators only sketched a few animation drawings, leaving gaps in between. Later on, a person called an "inbetweener" would finish the scenes, by drawing in between the areas that the animator had left.
5. Once the entire film has been drawn on paper, the animation drawings go to the inking department. There, the inkers copy the animation drawings on to a clear celluloid acetate, sometimes called a Cel.
6. After the outline of the characters has been made, the unfinished Cel's go to the Painting Department. The painters flip the Cel over, and paint the colors on the back. They paint on the back so the characters appear crisp, and have an outline.
7. Before the Animation Cels get photographed a background must be added. Because a Cel is clear, and it only has the painted character on it, if a background is made, it will show through. Usually backgrounds are painted with Tempera or Water Color paint. Although, in some Disney productions, the background was painted on glass, and combined with other glass painted backgrounds to create the illusion of extreme movement. (This technique is use in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.)
8. Now all the combined elements (the Cel and the background) can be photographed. Although, the final product is not filmed with a normal projector, or camera. A special device, with a lens mounted facing down on to a table top captures each frame of the animated feature. Usually, the background is placed into a special mount, then covered with the Cel, then covered with a large piece of glass, then photographed.
9. After all the drawings have been filmed, the dialogue is added. Sometimes the film is edited at this step.
10. The animated film is released, and the general public may view it.
From: www.justdisney.com/animation/animation.html
Now some history from Wikipedia
Although the animation studio was first established on October 16, 1923, Walt Disney began the move into features in 1934, pulling selected animators away from the short subjects division that had previously been the whole of Walt Disney Productions. The result was the first full-length animated feature in English and Technicolor, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White became an unprecedented success when it was released to theatres in February 1938, and it and many of the subsequent feature productions became film classics.
These first features were presented as being made in 'multiplane technicolor', since both the multiplane camera and the full-color Technicolor process were still something new in the area of animation. The early high-water mark came with Fantasia, an experimental film produced to an accompanying orchestral arrangement conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
Production of features was temporarily suspended due to World War II, between the releases of Bambi and Cinderella. This was partly because many of the animators got drafted, partly because the European market was cut off by the war, and partly because a huge amount of what the studio produced was for the army, especially propaganda films. From 1942 to 1943, 95 percent of the studio's animation was for the military.[1]
The next several features consisted of package films composed of short subjects, some already pre-existing. Two, Song of the South and So Dear to My Heart, where a combination of animated and live-action footage. Production of original features resumed after World War II, leading to the 1950 release of Cinderella, proving the viability of the animated feature. Several hits followed throughout the 1950s.
Sleeping Beauty provided a stylistic shift for the studio, leading to renewed interest through the 1960s. However, all these features were very expensive undertakings. Some of these films sustained losses and did not recoup their costs until decades after their original releases. In 1962, Walt Disney shut down the corporation's short subject department, focusing its attention mainly on television and feature film production, with the occasional short subject
The Animation studio is noted for creating a number of now-standard innovations in the animation industry, including:
The multiplane camera (for Snow White, but first used in the Academy-award winning short "The Old Mill")
The realistic animation of special effects and human characters (for Snow White)
Advanced composition processes to combine live-action and animated elements using color film (for The Three Caballeros)
The use of xerography in animation to transfer drawings to cels as opposed to ink-tracing (developed for One Hundred and One Dalmatians, but first tested in a few scenes in Sleeping Beauty and first fully used in the Academy-award nominated short Goliath II)
The use of all-digital methods for painting, compositing, and recording animated features CAPS (Computer Animation Production System)
The technique for rendering animations in a painterly style (Tangled)
Among its significant achievements are:
The first animated feature in Technicolor (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
The first major motion picture in stereophonic sound (Fantasia)
The first animated feature in CinemaScope (Lady and the Tramp)
The first large format animated film (the 70 mm Sleeping Beauty)
The first Disney animated feature to use computer-generated imagery (The Black Cauldron)
The first Disney animated feature making heavy use of CGI computer animation (Oliver & Company)
The first Disney animated feature to use digital coloring (The Little Mermaid, which introduced Disney's CAPS process)
The first feature film to be shot using a 100% digital process (The Rescuers Down Under, CAPS)
The first animated feature to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the only nominee for Best Picture to be traditionally-animated (Beauty and the Beast)
The first Disney animated feature to gross $200 million, and the highest-grossing film of 1992 (Aladdin)
The highest grossing traditionally-animated film of all time (The Lion King)
The largest film premiere with over 100,000 viewers (Pocahontas)
The first Disney animated feature making heavy characters (Hercules)
The most expensive animated film ever made costing $260m (Tangled)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Animation_Studios
Also see:
www.disneyanimation.com/aboutus/history.html
And
www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=disn...
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