"I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music- a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms that enter into our lives every day." Walt Disney
"The audience was fascinated with animation that repeated the same action over and over."
Vintage animation characteristics
CYCLE: 1st and last drawing are the same
REPEAT ACTION: changing either the start or the ending
CROSS-OVER: One or two characters doing the same. "Line of dancers"
TOWARDS CAMERA: A character approaches the screen and fills it up, then it goes back to its original position.
Factory-style sequences
Rubber hose animation (long legs and arms)
Use of speed lines, staggers and vibrations.
LISTENING TO A TRACK BEFORE ANIMATING
For phrasing (pauses, timing, accents, drifting moves and fast moves)
For characters' personality
Names to remember:
John Hubley
Dave Fleischer
Bob Clampit
Fritz Freeling
Norman McLaren
Tex Avery
SURPRISE!
ACCENTS!
GAGS!
THINGS TO LOOK AT:
- Contraste de colores (flash sobre negro)
- Elementos de repetición
- Elemento foco sobre repetición
- Uso de siluetas
- Síntesis
- Fondos simples, sensación de vacío
- Monocromía
- Uso de líneas para animar patrones musicales
- Deconstrucción y síntesis de instrumentos
- Elasticidad en objetos
