Disney Animation

Thinking about animation I turned to my guilty pleasure, Disney films :) I own pretty much all of them and still remember being a child watching Snow White on video for the first time. I thought this would be kindof relevant to the storyboard bit of this project. Disney started out in 1929 and became publicity-traded as Walt Disney Productions in 1938. By 1934 the company had already pushed so many boundries of the animation world with the first Mickey Mouse sketches and decided they wanted to go even further. This lead them to create their first feature length animation film in 1934, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, based on the Grimm Brothers fairytale. Taking three years to complete, it became the highest grossing film of its time by 1939.

The way they produced their animations was to draw out every scene and put it onto a storyboard, kindof like what we're doing for this module. The sounds would be recorded afterward and made sure theyre synchronised properly to the movement on screen. This painstaking process meant drawing out each indiviual scene and movement of every characre,r and putting them all together at the end to form a kindof flipbook animation. The more scenes per second the smoother the animation.

First every detail of each character would be discussed, drawn out and developed as shown in the picture above. Then after completing the script and having everything planned out the illustrators would begin drawing out each  scene. Below are some very early drawings they would have used and then scanned in and put them all together to see how they would look animated.

I managed to find the deleted scene from the movie that was a bonus a the end of the video. Its a shame they didnt include it, it's actually my favourite song from the movie! They never completed animating it so what you see is their primary drawings all put together with the audio track. Enjoy!

Click here to watch the video!

It is a very long process, hence why it took them three years to complete, but it produces some amazing and wonderful results if done right :)