My Art, Fandom, and other Shenanigans

The Real Truth About Disney’s “Recycled Animation” via GeekDad

“Disney Legend Floyd Norman actually worked on many of the films in question; he started at Disney as an in-betweener on Sleeping Beauty. So I asked him, ‘what’s the deal with all those recycled scenes?’

‘That was Woolie Reitherman. It’s actually harder and takes longer to redraw an existing sequence,’ Norman told me, 'it’s a lot faster and easier to just do new animation, and it’s a lot more fun for the animators. But Woolie liked to play it safe and use stuff he knew would work. That’s all it was.’

The new Zootopia teaser trailer makes me feel a lot more confident about this film. As if I should have ever really doubted a Disney animation! (…let’s not go there.) So far it’s cute, clever and self-aware, much like its fox main character, who narrates the whole teaser. Check it out above.

These are some boards I did from the episode “On the Run.” Sometimes when we have specific timing in mind, we time out the boards ourselves and give them to our wonderful animatic editor Lauren Hecht to use as reference. She always has great ideas for ways to improve the flow of our scenes.

In “Watermelon Steven” Lamar Abrams had introduced the new secondary powers of the gems like Amethyst’s spin dash and Pearl’s projectile beams, and i was excited to use them in as dynamic a way as possible. Introducing new gem powers and abilities is always a blast and I had fun coming up with Amethyst’s new ‘flame whip.’

Key-Animation from AVATAR: The Legend of Korra | Book Three: Change ! It took me SO many hours to create these but every second was worth it. Will upload more later…