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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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allonsybadwolf

Trying to chain fly some wool but then cat approaches lays on lap. Now I'm stuck. One hand holding chain fly can't type because of that so we're doing voice to text. See how that works out other hand. Trying to keep cat from yarn but he's so big and so heavy. I can't scoop him up with one hand to move him. So now I am just stuck and text send post done stop

allonsybadwolf

Chain ply not fly play no ply . Done. Send post finished. Stop typing! Oh Jesus Christ don't capitalize Jesus Christ. This is this is Tumblr don't do. Don't do that. Don't capitalize Tumblr this is the worst drop stop

allonsybadwolf

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aw prev your tags made me smile so big!! Thank you and I'm really glad that my little criminal causing chaos made you laugh :) and I WAS able to finish plying my yarn, we reached a "look but don't touch" cold war agreement and were both equally annoyed at each other the whole time 😌

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capsyst

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:

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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.