W:10 Walt Disney Feature Animation 1 Flashcards
Cartoon that Disney used to practice animating the female form
The Goddess of Spring (Silly Symphonies)
What was the biggest challenge the Disney animators had to overcome?
Realistically animating the human form (esp females)
What year did Snow White come out?
1937
Who was the supervising director of Snow White?
David Hand
Name the two people who contributed to Snow White’s “Old Wood” storybook look
Gustaf Tenggren (Art Director)
Albert Hurter (Chara Designer)
Key animator of Snow White
Grim Natwick
Key animators of the Dwarves in Snow White
Fred Moore and Bill Tytla
Key Animator of the Queen from Snow White
Art Babbitt
List the Disney Golden Era Films in order
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937)
Pinocchio (1940)
Fantasia (1940)
Dumbo (1941)
Bambi (1942)
Key animator of Jiminy Cricket
Ward Kimball
Key animator of Stromboli
Bill Tytla
What was groundbreaking about the music score of Fantasia?
segments of classical music loosely connected to one another
used stereophonic sound system (Fantasound)
used multiple speaker and multiple tracks
What was unusual about the look, cost, and run time of Dumbo?
super cartoony, bright, colourful
least expensive to produce
shortest Disney animated feature
Describe the look/design of Bambi
inspired by Chinese impressionistic paintings (Tyrus Wong)
realistic, natural beauty without fantasy
lots of depth and dimensions (thanks multiplane camera)
What foreign continent did Disney and friends travel to, and what animated films came out of this trip?
South America
The Three Caballeros
Saludos Amigos
What kind of features did Disney make during the Post-War Blues period?
Package Features
Name Disney’s package features
Make Mine Music
Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Fun and Fancy Free
Melody Time
1937 Silly Symphony that used the multiplane camera for the first time
The Old Mill
Describe how the multiplane camera works
Enabled camera to look through a series of levels
Finished picture had an illusion of depth and dimension
Vertical tower holding artwork on different planes (background on bottom)
Adjustable planes with camera on top
Who did Walt Disney hire to train his artists, and from what institution?
Don Graham
Chouinard Art School
European art movement that influenced the terror/horror scenes in Snow White
German Expressionism
Man who conducted the soundtrack of Fantasia
Leopold Stokowski
Key animator of Chernabog in Fantasia
Bill Tytla
Disney artist who inspired impressionistic background designs for Bambi
Tyrus Wong
What entertainment did Disney start making during the studio’s Post War Blues perios
Live action films
