Michael has posted Part 2 of Rico LeBrun’s Bambi Guides (Link to Part 1 here). Again these are just beautiful beautiful drawings that showcase the foundation the animators had in preparing for Bambi. One look at these and you have to agree with Sky-Davis’ comment after the jump (he also provided these stunning images): Long live Hand Drawn Animation!
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Floyd shares a photograph of animator Retta Davidson and relates what it was like working with her on the Disney feature, The Sword in the Stone. I love how dark her room looks; just the glow from the light table and a single lamp illuminating those beautiful drawings.
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This is probably the coolest thing I’ve seen in years.
Not only do you get to see what the studio lot looked like before the Frank G. Wells building took over, but you also get to see Tim Burton serving a volleyball! In addition, you get studio head Ron Miller looking ultra-serious about a “friendly” game, Chris Buck’s short shorts, and John Musker giving a great color commentary.
Thank you so much to whoever put this up - it’s a great look back at a time when animation wasn’t such a serious business.
An example of LeBrun’s action-analysis work for Bambi. I have had a copy of this book for several years and hoped to post it someday here. I don’t think I will now as my version is nowhere near as clear as this one. Several more pages from his beautiful work can be found here.
Several more after the jump.
No. You do something like that for forty years and you get to the point where you feel like you've said everything you had to say.
Answering a question from Will Finn on whether or not he missed being at the drawing board.
Now this is an animation studio!
I flipped through the preview available on the book’s online store and while it does seem rather small, the chance to see some behind the shots of the original feature animators has got to be well worth it.
Luckily, Jenny Lerew has already ordered it, so we can wait to hear if she likes it or not.
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How hilarious is this?
Seems the confusion about which one was Ollie and which one was Frank continued right up until the end.
For anyone unfamiliar with the obvious mistake present in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, that’s Frank Thomas’s head on Ollie Johnston’s obituary. The two greats were best friends through decades and decades of great animation and even went so far as to buy houses right next to each other.
I’m pretty sure, given their good natures and their well-developed senses of humor, that they would find this hysterical.
I know I did.
