BEAST LINETEST

[papisNY]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

[mtlaunder]

glen keane is simply my hero, i would give up red meat just to be his assistant!

[kjmartin2000]

this is pretty good is it hard to do animation ??

[AlexanderLee1]

@kjmartin2000 Are you kidding? This guy (Glen Keane) has spent his life getting the skill required to do this sort of stuff. Yeah, it is hard. very hard.

[DefyGravity464]

Ahhh!!! xDDDD

Of all the scenes, this is the one my friend and I love the most from that movie because it's hilarious. xD

[animationfan24601]

Wow. To me, this is so much more beautiful and interesting to watch than when the animation gets colored and cleaned up. Here, we can see the animator's every line and stroke used to create the illusion of movement. It's absolutely stunning.

[To652]

This man is a wizard

[tokyogirl345]

I just realized something about that movement, on the "starve" cue, it's kinda girly. Not that I'm calling the Beast girly-*suddenly remembers the "Grooming" scene*...Uh...Never mind. But! I we have seen a similar motion with Lilo's older sister, Nani, when they get into a fight and she screams very similarly to the Beast. Strange no?

[jinnyschannel]

@tokyogirl345 It's probably because whoever animated Nani was going through this scene in the Morgue and drew inspiration from it. ^^

[violetphoenix13]

I love Glen Keane...

[Jamesinho67]

How does he make something so heavy AND agile?! Suppose it's a constant reminder to improve and something to aspire to.

[nddlj]

I'd be such an honour to be a clean up artists or an in-betweener for Glen Keane's animation! LIKE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY!!!!

[Yamazon3]

I don't understand how they got these drawings to look the way that they did on screen before computers (i know Beauty and the Beast was partially made with computers). In fact, I don't even understand how they got them to look the way they did WITH computers lol. I mean how did they add color? Whats the process with layering? This is so interesting!

[Flup2]

@Yamazon3

Sketches get cleaned up, traced by hand, onto cell sheets (transparent sheets) that can be stacked on top of each other (representing a single frame), then each stack of gets shot with a special camera.

Color goes on another cell sheet, below the line art-sheets.

[Kaleinea]

@Yamazon3 At this point the film was made with the CAPS program. Everything was traditional hand drawn animation processes then everything was scanned into the computer, painted and composited together. At this point, cels werent used anymore in the Disney animation studios. Backgrounds and other elements I think were still painted by hand.

[Spectacular66]

@Yamazon3 The CAPS system Disney developed in 1989 pretty much threw out the old school celluloid and acrylic paint method and replaced it with a digital ink-and-paint method. By scanning in the cleaned-up artwork into the computer they could just use a paint-bucket tool and quickly fill in their flat colors, give the lines some coloring, add shadows and highlights all with the click of a mouse. You could pretty much do this in Photoshop using a scanner with a black-and-white mode.

[AMILLIONBEATZ]

YEAH CUZZ TOO TIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DeekyDicawdo]

for some reason whenever i watch this i keep accidentally saying sleep instead of eat

[inaizy]

glen keane allegedly drove cleanup artists into desperation... if you look at only one drawing in the sequence, it's just a mess of lines, but then you make it move and it's BEAUTIFUL O_O

[malekith87]

wow...)

[songokusama]

staaaaaaaaaarve!!

[hampoychampoy]

AWESOME! :D

[WishesSetFree]

When they say the pen is mightier than the sword, I say that the pencil with the Disney animator and then in turn the beast on their side can take that sword and KILL IT. ^_^

[GarrettCGA]

How terrifying!

[krimzondestine]

GO AHEAD AND STARVE! If she doesn't eat with me, then she doesn't eat at all. Disney at its finest.

[rickyanimation]

Georgeous!!!!!

[mrash7a]

woooooooow amazing can u give me some hints or tips to help me improve plzzzzz

[cambryn]

@mrash7a This is by Glen Keane. He was the lead animator of the Beast. This person had nothing to do with the art you see other than letting us get a glimpse at Glen Keane's genius. :P

[gorywill]

WOAH! AMAZING!

[luisperezonline]

A Classic....!!

[JokerishDish]

Glen Keane FTW

:D

[pinkdisney4ever]

This is what I called "FAAAANTASTIC!"

[TehDarkPrince]

Juxtaposing Glen to James for supervising is one of the greatest casting choices in an animated movie ever. Contrasting James delicate linework and his graceful, fluid timing to Keane's sense of power and raw emotion really sets them apart. A large amount of animation (film in general as well) comes from contrast. Contrast at it's finest here!

[TehDarkPrince]

*spacing instead of timing.

[LucasZeb]

This Glen Keane work to a T. Baxter's is way softer. Both beautiful in their own way.

[MidoriValentine]

It would have to be. The Beast has to be roughly done, since he is a rough character, and Belle has to have soft, flowing animations. It makes sense :)

[ciclopropano]

damned youtube, ate the last frames!!!

[Anitchen111]

thats very funny

i love that scene

[princessannikki]

awesome!

[disneyanimator]

amazing

*****

[TcroftY]

100% pencil.

[8tentacles]

dude, its an original clip from the original beast rough animation by the disney company.

[AshleyYAY]

This was made by James Baxter... He rules

[madskills2]

Actually this was done by Glen Keane. James Baxter was the supervising animator for Belle.

[AshleyYAY]

oooh... Well still... and this guy rocks too xD

[madskills2]

Yes he does.

[MidoriValentine]

He speaks truthfully!

[freakystyley73]

a an old college mate of mine had a VHS version of the full film in line test format. BEST THING I EVER SAW (animation wise)...beautiful!

anyone know if its still available OR a dvd version of it 'anywhere'?

[Catey85]

the dvd that was released has 3 versions of the flim, the original theatrical, the new extended, and the rough animation version. I don't know if it's what your talking about though.

[freakystyley73]

"and the rough animation version"

it had the line test like this, but it had ALL of the scenes as mostly linetest and then some storyboard panels. no final colour. it was the best thing i've seen....really inspirational!

I tried to get it in the disney shop in london, but the girl said they were sold out just weeks before. damn it!

[freakystyley73]

and that was about 10 years ago! argh!

[Youahoeassbitch]

this is Glen Keane's rough pencil test...He's a well established and one of the greatest Disney animators there is

[LuckyDevil007]

Rofl love that comment "like what program did you use" xD this is all hand drawn pencil test from the disney archives. traditional hand drawn animation will teach you everything you need to know about any kind of animation.

[TadaKiba]

@LuckyDevil007 Not 3d animation,

[TheTyPEonER]

@TadaKiba Yes it will. Timing and spacing, strong poses, a good sense of anatomy and deformations are key to any kind of animation, and that you learn best by learning how to draw. We're talking animation here, not software prowess. Don't bother getting on a computer if you can't hold a pencil :)

[TadaKiba]

@TheTyPEonER Working in 3d is much harder, The computer may program the movements for you, but getting the muscle structure an the bones takes a butt-load of rendering, making-remaking, so I'd much rather work in 2d, where I can control everything, and not have to worry about the uv points getting corrupted.

[Recedebo]

@TadaKiba hahahaha but you've got to the point where the hard stuff isn't art, but a technical stuff... here, this is art, and to do this kind of animation you have to spend lots of years in the learning.

[TadaKiba]

@Recedebo I learned 2d way faster than 3d, While I'm not the worlds greatest, I do OK 2d

[Recedebo]

@TadaKiba Real 2d animation is not just drawing a picture after another. Doing good animation wether it is 3d or 2d is not about graphichs, or shading or rendering but about performance and acting.

[ciclopropano]

STARVE!!! lol

[Azybee]

Lol yea i remember that scene aswell XD

[damancandance]

how did you make it? like what program do you use?

[hima1one]

this is actually from disney's animators... very cool stuff

[ac120479]

"Fine, then go ahead and STAAAARVE! If she doesn't eat with me, then she doesn't eat at all!"

Nice scene, great pencil work!

[korock7]

waaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooo

[dulimar]

foda!

[ciclopropano]

eso es animar!!!

[LucasZeb]

A_W_S_O_M_E

[VitjEns]

WOW ! Thank you so much for sharing this great piece of art !!!

-Vic-