Animator Walter Lantz produced this behind-the-scenes documentary in 1936 about the making of one of his black-and-white cartoons.
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
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Life Lessons from Dinosaurs
Art from Dinotopia plus whimsical wisdom
James Gurney
This weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers. You'll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums.
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- Quoting an Art School Professor
- Can We Reconstruct Vision from Brain Activity Alone?
- Jess K. Recommends Some Art Books
- How Insects Fly, Shot in Slow Motion
- Cheap materials for priming / underpainting
- Behind-the-Scenes Doc about 1930s Cartoon Animation
- What is Overmodeling?
- Painting a Postal Service Delivery Truck
- Komorebi
- Donkey Ride on the Beach
- How Thomas Hart Benton Paints a Mural
- First Reading, Second Reading
- The Science of Color by Captain Disillusion
- Painting a Sunset Glow Effect
- Sending fire from our eyes
- Sorolla's Admiration for Zorn
- Deep in the Forest by Bodarevsky
- How to get unusual animal poses when working from ...
- Portrait of Smooth (Who Doesn't Hold Still)
- Etchr Lab Interview
- The Rise and Fall of Betty Boop
- What They Cut from King Kong
- Why Did Animation Flourish in the 1930s?
- 1930s Toys: Comic Types and Characters
- Windows to Forgotten Worlds
- 1930s Toys: Materials and Worksmanship
- Mønsted's Open Landscapes
- Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
- Becher Typologies
- Another View of Saint Eulalia
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James Gurney
PO Box 693
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
or by email:
gurneyjourney (at) gmail.com
Sorry, I can't give personal art advice or portfolio reviews. If you can, it's best to ask art questions in the blog comments.
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However, you can quote images or text without asking permission on your educational or non-commercial blog, website, or Facebook page as long as you give me credit and provide a link back. Students and teachers can also quote images or text for their non-commercial school activity. It's also OK to do an artistic copy of my paintings as a study exercise without asking permission.
6 comments:
Wow. Really cool. I loved the men's shoes at :21, the section around emotion at 2:16 and the whole section starting at 8:13.
Giggled, of course, about the "girls" in the copying department...
Amazingly labor intensive. What interesting jobs!
Definitely pre CGI!
"15,000 drawings!!!
Not on this caliber, but it brought back memories of inking and painting for Imagination Inc. in the early 70's in San Francisco while a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. We got paid $3.00/hr. to push, not brush, paint up to the ink lines on the cells for Sesame Street "classics", "The Letter 'A'", and "Add and Subtract". Helped to pay my tuition for the San Francisco Art Institute.
Bill Marshall
Two observations...
One is that I'm surprised that the dialog was post-looped, similar to how the Fleischer Studios did Betty Boop and Popeye. It makes me wonder how the animators got the timings for the mouth movements if the actual dialog was recorded after the animation. Perhaps they worked to scratch tracks which were then rerecorded in the Foley studio as shown at the end of the film.
Second is the level of skill at every level, from the script to sketch to animation, inking, painting, music and foley work. The talent and craftsmanship was staggering!
So fascinating! I love watching behind the scenes footage of film/art making, especially vintage footage like this. So interesting to see the similarities and differences from today. Thanks for posting this and now I want to search YouTube for more!
Disney had a massive stills camera with a huge depth-of-field so they could photograph complex moving zoom-shoots with different parts of the matte in different planes allowing the background appeaing to move in three dimensions.
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