I’ve seen these Disney movies many times (I have kids!), and I noticed some of the similar/rehash stuff back when I was watching these over and over and over and over with my kids. This video did a great job of really showcasing it. While watching this video, what got me was the video’s juxtaposition really brings to light just how far they went with the copy/paste, down to the last detail.
Note, I don’t consider this a horrible thing, just interesting. I would like to know the story behind it because this was back in the days of traditional cell animation where you still had to draw… not like they could just re-render some CGI scene. How did they do it? What motivated them to do it (budget? stock actor films? homage to past films?).
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Rotoscoping. It was the old way of “tracing” for animation – you film what you want to show, then draw on new cels on top of it.
The human sequences in the early films (and a lot of the horses)are rotoscoped. It’s super obvious when you look at the motion of the humans (Snow White for instance) compared to the dwarves, wholly drawn in most cases.
Since they had the animations done, the later films just rotoscoped the earlier films. Big fat time saver, I’d think, in the days before computerized frame interpolation and modeling.
A very interesting little film, I agree.
Ah yes! I’ve heard of that technique… thanx for jogging my memory.
Yeah, they probably did that. Filmed the humans once, then just reused the same stuff later on. Save time, save money.
Thanx for the info!