Monday 8 February 2010

My Ideas of an Animation

















My idea for an animation is to make it the old fashion way by using pen and paper, that way nothing can go wrong on the computer, I wouldn't be able to loose any work while saving it.



I love how Disney's animators draw their characters, sure they take a very long time to produce an animated film, but it takes an endless amount of time trying to put a personality into a character and then inject it intoa drawing, either way Walt Disney really is a genius for doing animation during the year 1937 until the day on his deathbed.


Disney's animation keeps on going, even after his death, from 1937 until the year 2010, it would make Disney's animation studios at least 76 years old.


So I would like to do my animation like they use to do it during the year 1937, their way of doing animation back then was so simpler and very well drawn then that on computers.


My character for my own animation will be of a fox who outwits a foxhound dog during a fox hunt, this fox is a cheeky little lad with a cunning mind, he puts a kick me sign on the dog's back and when the dog turns round, the fox runs off and someone kicks the dog, then the fox hops on the dog's back and takes a bow.


That's going to be my animation, sure it won't be as complex as Disney's animation, but it still has some comedy in it.
Last Minute Research on Disney:
Disney use to do a lot of reusing from their previous productions into their new productions like Snow White and the Seven Dwarf's dance scene being recreated into a dance scene from Robin Hood.
Sleeping Beauty when Princess Aurora danced with Prince Philip, that was reused in Beauty and the Beast where Belle and the prince danced together.
Also in Jungle Book where Mowgli gets licked by his wolf brothers, that scene was reused in another production, Sword in the Stone where a young boy named Arthur gets licked to death by two Great Danes.
Mowgli walking on a huge log was also reused for Winnie the Pooh when Christopher Robin walks on a huge log with his friend, Pooh Bear.
Another reuse scene in Jungle Book when an Elephant blows it's trunk to someone squashed it and made a funny noise, the same happened in Robin Hood.
Disney also had to reuse characters, for example Baloo from Jungle Book, he was reused in Robin Hood's big friend, Little John.
Another scene where Christopher Robin throws a stone into the revine was also reused when Mowgli throws a stone into the revine.
The Lion King is a different story because it was copied by Osamu Tezuka's japanese production, Kimba the White Lion, hopefully Disney had purchased the rights of turning Tezuka's production into a completely different movie,otherwise it would've been done illegally.
Robin Hood's dance scene was obivously reused for the Aristocats when Duchess danced with
O'Malley the Alley Cat to the jazz beat.