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“Once upon a time, in a far away land, cartoons were drawn by hand. Teams of artists painstakingly illustrated cartoons frame-by-frame, creating lavish worlds and colors only previously seen in imagination. In today’s computer world, this craft is all but forgotten,” writes British Academy Award winning animator and author, Tony White.
A page from the Book of Keys
Following on from Mitchell Manuel’s guest post about the Book of Keys, here are some photographs showing the early pages in the book. They are colored images cut out of books or magazines and pasted into the book. This gives an interesting insight on the book as an educational tool.
Following on from Mitchell Manuel’s guest post about the Book of Keys, here are some photographs showing pages in the actual book. The drawings from Disney and G.B. Animation films are around 70 years old.
Lion cub
Following on from Mitchell Manuel’s guest post about the Book of Keys, here are more images from his collection of David Hand drawings and model sheets. They are model sheets from the British animation studio G.B. Animation. They are probably from the Animaland series of short cartoons (1948 – 1950).
Donald Duck model sheet 1
Following on from Mitchell Manuel’s guest post about the Book of Keys, here are some Donald Duck images from his collection of David Hand drawings and model sheets.
Sleepy, Bashful, Grumpy and Dopey relative proportions.
Following on from Mitchell Manuel’s guest post about the Book of Keys, here are some more images from his collection of David Hand drawings. They are model sheets from the Walt Disney feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
Jiminy Cricket from Pinochio.
Following on from Mitchell Manuel’s guest post about the Book of Keys, here are some more images from his collection of David Hand drawings. They are from the Walt Disney feature film Pinochio (1940) and The Reluctant Dragon (1941).
The book of keys.
Disney animator David Hand was invited to England in 1944 to help set up GB Animation. It was to be a studio of sufficient size and capacity with which to challenge Disney’s supremacy. Key drawings and character sheets believed to be by David Hand were later taken to New Zealand by animator Bob Morrow, with the aim of setting up a studio there. Mitchell Manuel tells the story in the following guest post.
With a timeline from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 through to The Princess and the Frog in 2009 this huge diagram charts 250 scale drawings of the Disney characters. Main characters, villains and secondary characters are defined with differently coloured silhouettes. Artist Juan Pablo Bravo has posted this on his Flickr Photo page for anyone to download. The original is a whopping 20779 x 440 pixels.
How do you support your webcam when you are filming pencil tests? Do you use a tripod, a chair or a pile of books? This post will tell you how to build a simple webcam rostrum using just a screwdriver, a drill and a saw. If you get your wood merchant to cut the wood to size you won’t even need a saw. If you opt for the bracket method you may not need a drill.
Before we start building lets take a look at a couple of ready made rostrums that I found on the Animation Supplies.net website.