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2 minutes after “Into the SpiderVerse”
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Being on Model-
One weakness I find in 2D animation is to put ‘strict’ emphasis to staying on model, and that every extreme should look perfectly like the model sheet. While every extreme look very pleasing in freeze-frame, the movement may not breathe properly and appearing confined.
Take for example, when we’re being photographed, there are many instances that we’d appear odd-looking and even don’t look like ourselves. But in motion, we look just as we would in every way. Only when taking images of a statue, then every angle is perfect and just as it looked…
Pending on personal preference to form or movement, a delicate balance can be reached between the pleasing drawing and the way it moves…
In context to animation performance- being on model is also to let the model breathe (as it should).
I love to let force fully dictating the outcome of shapes… As a result, it’s often difficult to find a drawing that is presentable in freeze-frame (This scene is also from Warner Bros. ‘Quest for Camelot’).
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Amplifying Force-
In speech, one way to emphasize a certain word is to pronounce it louder in contrast to the overall tone of a spoken phrase. Similarly to animation, contrasting sizes of shape is used to amplify a force through motion.
How the contrasting sizes came to give an impression on screen is depending on each unique circumstance, an interaction between sizes, velocity, scene’s perspective and direction of movement in relation to timing. It is relying more on a unique personal ‘feel’ that often break general technical rules in extreme conditions.
For example, technique requires cushion drawings to decelerate into a stop, but in the extreme cases, a movement might need to pop into a stop without cushion to feel right in motion. Likewise, size inflation of a body part might be in an orderly build up or an abruptly pop from smaller to large, holding its inflated state in several frames or just a single frame…
Inflating size of body part to amplify a certain force was often explored in the 30’s and 40’s, (a time when animation was more carefree to express and less constrain by technical do’s and don’ts, such as when Mickey Mouse is conducting the stars in Disney’s Fantasia, his hands inflated to a larger size than normal condition to accent his forceful conducting authority).
Here another scene sample from Warner Bros. ‘Quest for Camelot’. I animated the griffin and my friend Ralph Fernan animated the falcon.
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So I was looking through all of the DVDs that we have at my house and I found Quest for Camelot and tbh I totally forgot that this movie existed but now I’m watching it and totally reliving my childhood. I used to be absolutely obsessed with this movie.
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Quest for Camelot prompts
“You’re mad.”
“I’m *so* glad you noticed. I’ve been working at it for years.”
“Well, at least things can’t get any worse!”
“Wanna bet?”
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I embrace what others fear”
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You are not to roam in this forgotten place.”
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Just the likes of me are welcome here”
“ I was in the neighborhood, and I thought I’d invade.”
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How about a kiss? I hear you’re still single…”
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Impertinent pig.”
“Is that a no?”
“ You’ve got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel - clucky? Well, do ya… punk?”
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Charming singalong.”
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The king has decided!”
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Then it’s time for a new king. And I vote for me.”
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I will not serve under a false king!”
“ oh, ____Isn’t this everything you ever dreamed of?”
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Come on, baby, light my fire…”
“Anyway, cheer up. When we get to ____, we’ll be kissed by the world’s most beautiful women.”
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Enchanté, mademoiselle. I’m __”
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Eh, you’re better off without him. He walks funny. He even looks funny. People’d throw darts at him.”
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How can you be so cold-blooded?”
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I’m a reptile.”
“Quiet”
“Did you hear something?”
“No, I just want you to be quiet”
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What are you?”
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Frankly, we’re the reason cousins shouldn’t marry.”
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You *saved* my life! Thank you!”
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Well, everyone makes mistakes sometimes”
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And now I’ll thank you…
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Are you *sure* that’s such a good idea?”
“I’m driving”
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*Really?* I’ll have to take your word for it.”
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No, it’s somewhere in the forest!”
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Is there anything your magic can do?”
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You must rely on the courage of your people.”
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Panic sweeps across the land.”
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Eh… here’s where we enter a grey area.”
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Where did you drop the sword?”
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It all looks so *different* from down here…
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You’ve been quite annoying, for a girl.”
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Why won’t you look at me when I’m talking to you?”
“ Oh. Oh, I didn’t realize you were… “
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What? Tall? Rugged? Handsome?”
“You know, I always forget that one”
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Find them all and report back to me! Did you hear me?”
“Sorry master, my mouth was full”
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Typical! Of all the evil creatures in the world, I had to find one with *table manners*!
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“ I got three words for you, Birdy! “Dinner. Is. Served”! “
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When I get my hands on that girl…”
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Look at the sky”
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Tell me what do you see,”
“ The heavens are sparkling with starlight tonight.”
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That’s what I see through your eyes.”
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Please… Don’t die.”
“I can’t do this on my own”
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I’m sorry. It’s all my fault that you were hurt. I mean, I was rattling on when I should have been quiet. I’m no help to anyone.”
“You’re wrong”
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I have seen it. And there was no place for me.”
“I wish you could see it”
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I… I don’t belong in that world.”
“But you belong in mine”
“You don’t understand. In __, she’d only see me through their eyes. Not a knight, not a man, not anything.”
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One day, I will be a knight, like Father.”