Milt Thumbs....
An Animator from the ol' days stopped by with some really great stuff to show us. His name is Chuck Harvey. Chuck was an animator at Disney for 8 years and trained under Ollie, Frank and Milt. He collected alot of great things for the purpose of teaching. I taught a class last summer and Chuck was also teaching. We were able to produce 3 animated films in just two weeks at the CSU Summer Arts program. One was a traditionaly animated film using a package called mirage to animate and color it. Its a good piece of software for paperless animation. It kinda reminds me of Deluxe Paint 3 for the Amiga. Anyone remember that?
Enjoy the Milt Thumbnails. These are only some of them...
In a later blog, we will discuss thumbnailing as well as have a good interview with Chuck.
Milt Thumbnails
CSU Summer Arts
Mirage
2-d Film produced at Summer Arts (Bass Akwards)
Andrew
posted by Dr. Gordon at 9:04 AM
5 Comments:
Andrew,
Thank you so much for posting these. They're mind blowing. Milt was such a powerhouse in animation and it really comes through in his thumbnail sheets as to why. He made it his business to explore all the possiblilties, and worked diligently to get the most out of things, so there must be reams and reams of these pages out there somewhere. Here's to more.
7:03 PM
Andrew--these are amazing; a really incredible window into Milt's thought process, and just terrific drawings! His handling is so simple, but his posing is so specific and expressive! Just amazing. You'll have to thank Chuck--I look forward to future posts.
And Bass Akwards is great too! 2 weeks? Non-animators? Really phenomenal.
12:15 AM
After reading your comment on making 3 animated films in just two weeks, I thought you might be interested in this.
My friends and I recently worked on an animated film in 24 continuous hours. It's been a tradition to make 24 hour films here at RIT. Three have been made so far. You can see our latest on my blog, or go to Art Of Joe, the blog of the man who helped start this tradition.
4:40 AM
I took a look at the Dpaint film and the 24 hour one done at RIT. Both awesome stuff! I'd love to know more about the 24 hour film done at RIT. Sounds like a great idea! Thanks for everyones comments. We read every one.
-Andrew
9:57 AM
Hey Andrew,
Glad you enjoyed Dance of the Seasons. These 24-hour films started off as a way to share tips on streamlining the production pipeline, as well as a test to see what we could design, create, and put to tape by the end of a 24 hour day. But the desire to tell a good story along side forced us to rework the schedule, bumping post production out of the 24 hour period. So with DOTS, a group of seven animators, including myself and my co-director Jed Mitchell, came together in an apartment basement on a saturday morning to do this thing, knowing nothing of what we were going to animate.
We presented the music to the rest of the group and slowly worked our way into thinking about colors, mood, shapes, and eventually the story which would be driven by the music. As a director I have to be completely clear about what I want, and as an animator I have to get it right the first time, because there's no room to do anything over. Eventually, five of us got into animation, while i stepped another wonderful artist through the layouts. We animated nearly non stop through the night and finished in the late morning just before the clock ran out, because we were out of animation paper. All but one or two minor shots were completely done, along with colored layouts and timing sheets for the whole thing. We got some sleep and Jed and I, with the help of a few others, scanned, colored, and cut the piece together over the course of about two or three full days of work. Every time we do it the schedule is very different, but each time it's a crazy collaborative miracle of animated proportions. :)
8:01 AM
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