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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!! THIS IS NOT A.I.!!!! THIS IS VERY TRULY REAL!!!!!!! I AM SCREAMING!!!!!!

WE ARE OFFICIALLY GETTING IAN AND BARLEY-

YES- IAN AND BARLEY BACK IN A MID-2020s DISNEY GAME!!!!

AND THEY'RE IN QUESTING GEAR!!!!! 😱

AAAAAAAAAAH THEY LOOK SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AWESOME!!!!!!!! DON'T THEY LOOK AWESOME?!?!?!

Like, this is EXACTLY what all of us wanted in Mirrorverse- Ian AND Barley TOGETHER in a quest-style Disney game!!!! AND NOW WE ARE TECHNICALLY FINALLY GETTING IT!!!!!

[ID. A tweet by Alex Hirsch saying "Oh, this... thisis beautiful." followed by # The Art of Gravity Falls invades bookstores THIS FALL!, and the artist palette and pine tree emoji. The tweet also includes a video showing the book. End ID]

GRAVITY FALLS ART BOOK

FINALLY.

The concept for this piece is a "movie night sleepover" where everyone brings their favorite snacks and DVDs!

But you might notice… no one is actually watching the movie except for Caine. Why? Because he’s making them sit through a 4-hour documentary called "The Life of a Bee" LOL

Barley Lightfoot telling a story when he thought about giving his Guinevere some powerful fuel⛽️

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.