Blog 3

There are contradictions of Disney's thoughts from chapter 2 in chapter 4. In 1923, Disney had only Alice's Wonderland to his credit. He was surprised to receive a contract for another 12 films. At first Disney was only concerned with only creating funny scripts and not so concerned about the movement in the animation. "They could not know it at the time, but actually there was little chance for these cartoonists to improve, given the type of material they were animating" (p.30). In chapter 4 Disney's priorities in animation began to change. It is now 10 years later and Disney has become more concerned about making his films as lifelike as possible. He brought in Don Graham, a top instructor at Chouinard's Art Institue to help illustrators take part in action analysis. The illustrators would observe the intricate movements of models and be asked to illustrate these movements. Disney wanted his characters to have more lifelike flow in there movements and also wanted his films to have secondary actions. Secondary actions even in the layout such as doors closing in or out or curtains moving in the windows. This first film is of Steamboat Willie in 1928. Notice the very limited action of these illustrations.

This second film is Snow White of 1937. Notice the much more life like movements and flow of the animations. There is even small movement of the fire in the fireplace.