I sincerely cant remember the last time that staff rolled out a feature that improved this website in any way

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Originally posted by madeleineengland

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

Originally posted by madeleineengland

Nearly blocked someone for a vaguely annoying reply they made in 2017 then remembered 2017 was 9 years ago. They will live. We can change *opens their blog* nevermind they got worse. Guards

i'm not anymore, but as a kid, i was a big fan of newspaper comics. Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, etc. among all of those, Dilbert was always "one of the other ones". i was too young to really get the office humor of it, but it was something i knew about and i knew that people liked it

so a few times, when i was bored, had nothing else to do, and had access to a library, i would check out the non-comic books that Scott Adams wrote. there was one in particular i remember that was like, his predictions for the 21st century (written in the 90s). and at the time i thought it was parody, since it was all about how women would take over the world and it would be the end of humanity and men would become second-class citizens. i found it more funny than his comics, because obviously no one could actually think this

and then 15 years later i learn that, no, actually, he actually just thought that. it wasn't a joke. he was being serious

in my minecraft server there's a 1/5000 chance of a skeleton running across your screen at any given moment, and sometimes it really scares me

Live, laugh, leave by 9pm.

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If I was a pokemon NPC I would definitely be in some corner of a library doing Pokemon based historical research on ghost types. Like can you get your stupid Bulbasaur out of here I have a deadline.