Okay so i had over 50 notes and my brain likes when the numbers go high so you get doodles
And who knows, maybe i will post art tomorrow if i continue riding this high
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?
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.
I love how all of them carry a completely different tone than the others
FUCK EM UP YOUR GRACE
Pop off, my liege
Get it, your majesty
When you initially just wanted to draw the head and then you got a better idea after finishing it. (WIP)
Cut off one of his legs and moved it. Refining overall silhouette and rendering the more detailed parts of the fur.
The wolf rendering is done, but I still have a finishing touch to add on another layer.
Unfettered Fenrir
The rope isn't my favorite, I tried some fancy footwork with it and it didn't quite work but I'm happy with the overall result so I'm calling it done.
Narcissus taking a selfie is the ACTUAL best.
These are REALLY cool
These are art in themselves, in a some of them point out what lockdown was like for us, they’re expressed themselves in a really cool way. But I think these are going to be talked about in the future.
