Monday, March 26, 2007
Looking Back With An Open Eye:
How important is Walt Disney`s Show White? It is not really the first feature animation, like a lot of marketing people like to say even thou they should know Prince Achmed and a few others clocked in at feature length more than 10 years earlier. So why Snow White on this big pedestal?
There is a reason. Walt Disney was the greatest animation producer that ever lived? The Babe Ruth of animated cartoons! Snow White was the film he learned to do feature animation with. It became his template for long form animation. The blue print for the animation pipeline at Disney and the master plan for all other animation pipelines.
We animate the way Walt did. We teach animation the way Walt and Walt`s artist learned to animate and how they learned was on Snow White. That makes this a pretty important picture. The weird thing is that nobody really gets the facts that Walt created his Animation pipeline to fit his own strengths and weaknesses. (And he did have some. My gods, I am going to be burned as a heretic)
We slavishly follow in Walt`s footsteps. Nobody dareing to question the Walt pipeline, it has become sacred. Carved it stone. The only way. The right way.
Walt would be the first to throw out something that didn`t work for him but his followers blindly repeat his steps like it is some magick ritual that will create alchemist gold at the box office.
Maybe it is time to look as why Walt did something not just what Walt did. Don't just copy, think. That is what Walt did. One size does not fit all. Sometimes Walt`s isn`t the only way.
Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy) ¶ 6:48 AM
How important is Walt Disney`s Show White? It is not really the first feature animation, like a lot of marketing people like to say even thou they should know Prince Achmed and a few others clocked in at feature length more than 10 years earlier. So why Snow White on this big pedestal?
There is a reason. Walt Disney was the greatest animation producer that ever lived? The Babe Ruth of animated cartoons! Snow White was the film he learned to do feature animation with. It became his template for long form animation. The blue print for the animation pipeline at Disney and the master plan for all other animation pipelines.
We animate the way Walt did. We teach animation the way Walt and Walt`s artist learned to animate and how they learned was on Snow White. That makes this a pretty important picture. The weird thing is that nobody really gets the facts that Walt created his Animation pipeline to fit his own strengths and weaknesses. (And he did have some. My gods, I am going to be burned as a heretic)
We slavishly follow in Walt`s footsteps. Nobody dareing to question the Walt pipeline, it has become sacred. Carved it stone. The only way. The right way.
Walt would be the first to throw out something that didn`t work for him but his followers blindly repeat his steps like it is some magick ritual that will create alchemist gold at the box office.
Maybe it is time to look as why Walt did something not just what Walt did. Don't just copy, think. That is what Walt did. One size does not fit all. Sometimes Walt`s isn`t the only way.
Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy) ¶ 6:48 AM
