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  • 1. Disney Animation Techniques1937 1959

2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -1937The first full-length animated feature film.The first produced in full Technicolor.The film became the most successful motion picture of1938 and earned over $8 million on its initial release, theequivalent of $122,487,945 in 2010. 3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -1937Technicolor - A three-color method thatincluded all colours of the rainbow. 4. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -1937The Multiplane Camera Created athree-dimensional effect.Compositeimage as seenby cameraLighting for eachlayerIndividual elementsarranged in layers 5. Pinocchio -1940Rotoscoping An animationtechnique in which animatorstrace over live-action filmmovement, frame by frame. 6. Pinocchio -1940Pinocchio was a groundbreaking achievement inhighly realistic effectanimation.Used Live Action Reference. 7. Sleeping Beauty - 1959First animated feature to bephotographed in the Techniramawidescreen process. 8. Sleeping Beauty - 1959The last Disney feature touse hand-inked cels in theanimation.Every shot in the film wasdone from a live-actionreference version. 9. Disney Animation from 101 Dalmatians(1961) to Beauty and the Beast (1991) 10. Xerography 101 Dalmatians (1961) the first movie to use this method. Also first animated Disney movie to not use the technique of rotoscoped. Disney animation team had a limited budget so had to come up with a wayto make a box office hit at a reduced cost. Ub Iwerks, having experimented with Xerography, suggested using thisprogram which side-tracked the hand inking process, this involved placingthe cels over the drawings and inkers copying the outlines with differentcoloured inks. This process only leaves the colour to be inked on. One problem of this system is the original sketch type of drawing was keptin the final movie. Problem was improved in the 1977 movie The Rescuers by re-drawingthe original sketches into a cleaner finished product. 11. Recycled Animation Over the next few years, the action of using templates alreadyused in previous animations became quite common. The ability toreuse these templates reduced cost which was important in thetimes of Disney's limited budgets. In The Sword and the Stone (1963) some templates were takenfrom Bambi (1942) , and 101 Dalmatians. Some of thetemplates from this movie were also carried through to the nextfeature The Jungle Book (1967). 12. Revolutionary AnimationTechniques Animation in The Rescuers (1977) used in the opening creditsmarked the first time camera movements were used over stillphotographs. New Xerography program used in this film re-created the softeroutline that was not previously available with this system. Previouslycould only use black outlines, now use medium grey tones and more. 13. ATP Process The Black Cauldron (1985) was the first Disneyanimation to use APT (Animation Photo Transfer)process, instead of Xerography. Also first of Disney films to use computer-generatedimagery. APT process, invented by David W. Spencer for thismovie, photo's were taken and the negatives of theseimages were used. Negative copied with light sensitivedye and the light caused it to combine with the cels.Chemicals were used on parts uncovered to light.Detailed parts of images still had to be inked by handafter this process. 14. CGI CGI continued to be used in the futureDisney films, including The Little Mermaid(1989). This was also the last film to usethe method of hand-painted cel animation. CGI involves the creation of 3D imagesthrough the use of computer software. 15. CAPS The Rescuers Down Under (1990) was the firstmovie with Beauty and the Beast (1991) as thesecond to use CAPS (Computer AnimationProduction System) which was developed byPixar for Disney, this involved scanninganimators drawing and background paintingsinto the computer which allows them to be inkedand coloured by digital designers which allowedfor camera movements, multiplane effects andother effects to be determined . CAPS also allows hand-drawn animations andCGI to easily combined. 16. Disney Renaissance?1989 Present 17. The Womans role in later DisneyDe Rozario 1994Princesses in later Disney perform anopposite social journey to Walts traditionalprincessRole of Woman changing with society.The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, Mulan.Jasmine in Aladdin; Jafars slave when hegets access to the genie, helps Aladdin byseducing Jafar.Tarzan; Jane requires saving 18. Return to classic Disney MusicalsThe Little Mermaid; Return to themusical Disney.This proved successful as there are 6Disney Renaissance animated films inthe top 50 highest grossing animatedmoviesThe Lion King is second only to betopped by Toy Story 3. 19. Multicultural PhaseAladdin Good vs Evil. Aladdin and Jamsine have thick Americanaccents Sultan British jolly accent Jafar Arabic accent.Hunchback of Notre Dame racistoppression of Quasimodo and the gypsiesin Paris. 20. RealismHercules, Mulan, Pocahontas,Hunchback of Notre Dame and theLittle Mermaid are based on storiesand historical figures.Victor Hugos Hunchback Notre Dame;Everyone is killed, Quasimodocommits suicide by starving himself.Brothers Grimm Little Mermaid; Alsodies, and her sisters lose their hair. 21. Following the Disney RenaissanceFollowing the Disney Renaissance there wasa lull for Disney.Animation; The animation level here is outstanding, with exceptional facial expressions The ending scene of Atlantis was described as themost difficult scene in the history of DisneyAnimationNeglected movies. FANTASIA 2000The Emperors New Groove.Atlantis: The Lost Empire 350 Animators, based on comic book style Mike Mignola.Lilo & StitchTreasure PlanetBrother BearHome on the Range 22. But it didnt workFollowing these unsuccessful movies,Disney returned the traditional hand drawnmovies; The Princess and the Frog. (2009)(First hand drawn feature for over 5years)Tangled Computer Graphics Why did this work when the CG films of the 2000sdidnt?