More On Disney Animation + Recent Drawings

 

I'm fully exploring more on Disney's Illusion Of Life. I'm glad I was able to open this book after I got it for Christmas a few months ago. 

I've been loving the whole entirety of the book.

It's even more surprising that I'm focusing more on Disney's work more than anything else out there as of now.

Some people might think that's crazy, I'm not a true Disney fanatic. I'm more of a old Disney, Nine Old Men type of Disney fan, the Disney fan who loves looking behind the scenes of the older movies, and wanting to know more about the classic Disney animators. 

That's me alright.

Every character had potential, each animator had to focus on a few characters and almost all of them had some sort of unique and interesting personality, and it became such an impact that it became useful for other animation studios as well.

Including mine. 

I'm still trying to improve and draw more efficient methods since most of the time I draw their facial expressions.

It's insane to me because I could imagine these animators had a love for drawing growing up and that was back when there was no such thing as "animated films" I'm sure they were highly influenced by other mediums of art but to me, when I look into the Golden age of Disney, and it's high classification of extremely talented animators and cinematography it feels like a complete oddity, they were geniuses.

I mentioned this in a singular post where I talk about the unusual designs you'll get to expand upon in their feature films. 

Disney's cast of characters were full of different styles. 

This is Snow White, she looks more different than the other characters and what came beforehand.

Now here's a more cartoonish and playful design, Pinocchio. 

What was so exicting about the older Disney films was simply the amount of variety with each character design and storyline.

I really like Pinocchio's design alot. It's very influential and is the most used of the Illusion Of Life book. He's featured on the cover.

There's other cuter characters that are the easiest to study and examine. Like I was saying this is all for those maquettes they had to design the models of the character alot more easier. 

This Sniffles model sheet is a huge example of that.

What I love most about animation and what's fun to draw the most is the extreme close-up images.

Now here's some of my characters.

You may have seen this oldster in previous posts.

He's the deuteragonist in the tale of The Torch Of Edengale. 

Here's a completely colored version of himself.

This is supposed to be Giggles The Mouse. I have mentioned her before but I haven't showed you her true self.

This expression she's shows is utterly exhaustion. These are two separate drawings mostly trying to practice on drawing the same proportions and poses.

These take brief inspiration from Hal King's work at Disney. I looked into his animation recently, and I found him to be very influential just like Ken Muse, Rod Scribner and Ward Kimball. 

He's an incredible animator, I also heard he was left-handed like me. 

This is some of his finest frames I chose. 

He did most of Blame It On The Samba. I love The Aracuan Bird's expressions.

Prince Ranger (top left) is a character I drew while studying on how to draw more rotoscoped-designs, I have an unusual interest on stuff like that. I can't really talk about anything else because all of what your seeing is heavily inspired by those examples of pencil-sketches of characters you see online. Next post I'll try my best and see if I can post all of those images on my blog.

Circle head drawings.

I love when a cartoon character randomly wags it's head. This is what I did with my warthog character.

Here's some complex pen ink drawings of various types of humans followed by whatever came into my head. The woman on the right is supposed to be based off Pepa from Encanto, she's probably the most creative characters Disney ever put out so far in the modern era. 

This is just a minor interest in my tastes, but I love these bits of action scenes mentioned in the pages of the Illusion Of Life. While I wasn't a big huge fan of the scenes of Jaq and Gus, I still liked the movement and pacing, the movie itself is also fantastic too.

This is also really cool too. I bet that this type of comedy passed on, but I seemingly enjoy it a little. Heck I witnessed it some of their 40s-50s shorts like with Donald's cartoons, some of the gags are really clever at times.

I'm not saying that I'm focusing only on Disney principles, the animation book is very interesting and worth your time, but I also do have biggest influences on other animation studios I admire quite more than Disney like Warner Bros, and how their obsessed with smears and more comedic value.

I'll prove it to ya.

While I'm planning to make a post on the model sheets of various Disney characters I also want to focus more on the aspects of Looney Tunes, so stayed tuned whenever that'll come out.