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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.

but then you watch it again and close your eyes whenever she appears and just listen to her voice, you can hear the words and emotions and sadness of an average, tired woman who has accepted that no matter what she does, she’ll always just be seen for how she looks. That the way she has been animated and the way she is seen and interpreted by the world is beyond her control, and there’s not a thing she can do about it.

And suddenly the men aren’t very sympathetic at all, because you realize that while they LOOK, they haven’t at all been LISTENING.

Title: King of the Musketeers

Russian version (original):

Название - Король Мушкетарах.

(English:)

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Название - Король Мушкетарах.

(Russian original:)

Название - Король Мушкетарах.

(RUS ORIGINAL)

- Listen... You and your friends don't understand what you're getting yourselves into. You seem... rather cute. So I think I'll... leave you alone, with a warning. Stay out of my way, or else... I'll find the perfect ANVIL for you... 500 tons.

Title: King of the Musketeers.

Jakko is the only one of the Warners who survived, so he had to take on the role of king. As king, he is very elegant and attentive, and arrogant... But at night, he searches for the killer...

Max Goof is one of the youngest Musketeers... (Apart from the ducks from Duck Tales).

He was given his first assignment to guard the king... And to interfere with him.

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(russian version)

Название - Король Мушкетарах.

Якко единственный из Warners остался живым, и поэтому он должен был взять роль короля. Как Король он очень Элегантный и внимательный, и наглый...Но ночью он ищет убийцу...

Макс Гуф один из млачьших Мушкетарах... (Помимо уток из утиных истории).

Ему дали первое задание охранять короля... И мешать ему.