Rancen opened this issue on May 24, 2007 · 65 posts
operaguy posted Mon, 28 May 2007 at 1:54 PM
it is interesting to study "Snow White."
From my reading I got the impression the film does not have hyper-real animation on purpose. It has what I call KeysMostly animation. The keyframe animator place his keys at the top of each action, with others where the ease in and ease out should occur. It is know that for Snow White heavy rotoscope was used, that is, they filmed the action and drew the cells either right over the film frames or by reference to the frames.
the instructions to the in-betweeners was to certainly fill in around the ease-in and ease-out cells, but to NOT provide continuous motion for the cells through to the next stop. Indeed, there are stops betweeen the stops. We accept this style and love it.
Disney got so good at animation early on that they COULD HAVE provided smooth, hyper-real, near camera-captured animation. However, this would have been too jarring, accompanying as it did very simple (but beautiful) 2D cell drawings.
My suggestion to anyone wishing hyper-real bubbies bouncing is to film and rotoscope, or damn it to attach mocap sensors upon, ah how shall I put this, upon all subject-to-squishing surfaces of the said semi-soft and seriously-sensual skin.
Apparently Disney felt such diligence was inappropriate for the young lady of the title.
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