Monday, October 18, 2021

Small, Medium and Large

from the blog:
Temple of the Seven Golden Camels (Everything I know about the art of Story Boarding)

August 12th, 2006


Read the article at the link:

http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/2006/08/dd4-small-medium-and-large.html?view=classic


In general, a good drawing usually has: large empty spaces for the eye to rest, balanced with areas of small spaces to draw the eye. Medium sized shapes fill in the inbetween spaces.”


A nice variety of small, med and large shapes is essential to any successful character lineup. All the characters must be harmonious and work together so that all of the characters seem to come from the same world. And all of their shapes need to work with every other character so that, no matter which ones are in a scene together, they will compliment each other and not duplicate one another.”

Ken Anderson's "Robin Hood" lineup from "The Art of Walt Disney" book.


Exploring Walt Disney’s House With A Disney Legend | Disney Files On Demand

 

Posted on YouTube August 16th, 2021
Disney Parks


From legendary filmmaker Don Hahn and Disney Files Magazine Editor Ryan March comes “Disney Drop-In,” a Disney Vacation Club series of unscripted videos filmed in interesting Disney places with equally interesting Disney people. In this episode, Don Hahn leads Disney Legend Floyd Norman on a tour of Walt Disney’s historic home on Woking Way in Los Angeles, California.

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Friday, August 13, 2021

Andrea Freccero

 




Colore Andrea Cagol







Spend the Night in the Haunted Mansion – Here’s How!

credit: D23

from Inside the Magic.net
Disneyland Resort
by Alex Lue
posted July 20th, 2021

When it comes to decorating your home with top-notch Disney merchandise, fans go all out when sporting their favorite memorabilia in their homes. However, it’s a whole other ballgame when transforming your house into a popular Disney attraction, especially the Haunted Mansion. One Airbnb owner has converted his rentable home into the Haunted Mansion like no other fan, and it’s a short drive from Disneyland.

Read the full article:

THEME PARK 101 - Ten Principles of Environmental Storytelling

from Don Carson Blog: Theme Park & Virtual World Design
March 8th, 2021

1. Meet Expectations, Then Exceed Them
Once the stage is set, then, surprise them with the unexpected.

2. Appeal & Reassurance
Everything about the appearance should reassure your audience that their experience will be consistent in both design and quality.

3. Setting Influences How We Relate to a Narrative
Be aware of how the setting influences the emotions of how we related to places, objects, and events.

4. Composition & Staging Matter
Using theatrical lighting and staging point your audience to those areas and details that are most important to the story you are telling them.

5. Contrast Environments
The transition from one place to the next can be enhanced by how the two areas contrast each other in volume, lighting, color, etc.

6. Cause & Effect
Like the setup for a joke, suggest a punchline is imminent or has just been delivered to suggest an event is about to take place or has just occurred. 

7. The Place Where it Happened
When recreating a historic or literary environment, place your audience in the exact spot where it happened.

8. Shared Experience with Context
The secret appeal of a theme park is that these places and attractions are enhanced by the fact that it is being shared.

9. Effect the Environment, Be Affected by the Environment
Whether as simple as opening a door or pushing a button, being able to make changes to the environment allows the visitor to create their own narrative and memories about the place they are experiencing.

10. Take it Home
The phrase “Exit through the gift shop” is both a way to make money and a way for the visitor to bring home with them a tangible artifact from their experience.


Full article:


(Don Carson is an amazing talent, whose brilliant work for WDI brought forth the world of Mickey’s Toontown at Disneyland – his blog is incredibly informative)

1963 Fletcher Markle Interviews Walt Disney

 


https://youtu.be/4nMrLcmBCuI

onstageDisney
May 2nd, 2018

Fletcher Markle, who had just directed The Incredible Journey for Walt Disney Studios, interviews Walt Disney. Markle asks Walt about the early years in animation right on through to Disneyland and related events.


EPCOT Center: The Living Seas - Animated Atlas of the World



RetroWDW
November 2nd, 2020

The Animated Atlas of the World was a short film that ran on a loop in the Living Seas Pavilion in Epcot Center. The film educated guests on the effect of weather on the ocean, as well as the geology of Earth's oceans. 

The film opened with the pavilion in 1986.


Thursday, July 22, 2021

Learning In The Flesh: Why Disney Sends Its Animators To Life Drawing Classes

Karl Gnass teaching at the Animation Guild (Courtesy of Karl Gnass)

BY SUSAN KARLIN
Fast Company
07-23-14

For 82 years, Disney’s in-studio life drawing classes have helped evolve its animated characters. But as increasing reliance on computers lures young animators away from classical drawing, three of Disney’s current master teachers are reminding them why figure drawing is still crucial.

(L-R) Dan Cooper, Mark McDonnell, Karl Gnass, and Bob Kato before their panel at WonderCon. (Photo by Susan Karlin)

Continue to article on Fast Company:
 https://www.fastcompany.com/3033246/learning-in-the-flesh-why-disney-sends-its-animators-to-life-drawing-classes