The Nine Disney Animated Masterpieces
Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty
Information useful to readers before getting into the details about each of the nine animated masterpieces.
With this new emphasis on exploring and clearly defining personality in animated characters a more primitive “language” of cartooning gradually gave way to greater expressiveness in the drawing. Originally, character animators had done all of the effects in their own...
In addition to three-dimensionality, over their first decade working in the Disney Studio key animators gradually discovered more vital capabilities: how to make drawings that even individually convey a feeling of life, how to make these drawings appear to be...
Remarked Disney animator extraordinaire Marc Davis (1913-2000): Animation is an anachronism. It is that rarity – a handmade product in a mechanized age.[1] “Hand-made” yes, but intricately dependent on machinery! Because animated films share with other cinema the technology of...
