Milt Kahl Pencil Test

[mycollegeshirt]

I think its a shame they didn't come up with a much better story to live up to Milt's simply amazing ability

[khgirl8]

Man i have to do a 10 sec animation for college... you make it look easy!

[Druzica18]

I''m not woooorthyy....

[Dalen77]

I think he must of gotten the idea of medusa from Endora on Bewitched, i realized this just a short while ago, I also think mark Hehn modeled Jasmine after I Dream of Jeanie.

[GhostPlanetFilms]

This is great!

If there's anyone here who can read lips, could they please try to see what they're saying. I can tell Medusa says "Shut up, Snoops!"

[woolfkrazee]

omg i used to watch this ALL THE TIME when i was little

[madacraiova1]

miniroll32 the new era disney animations has nearly the same technique beside the drawings are cleaned up on a different paper(in xerox era the clean up was made directly on the rough drawing using an eraser),and scaned into the computer.Then the lines are colored...

Perhaps if you take a look at some frames of The Princess and the frog or The Beauty and the Beast(in hd) you can the some pencil strokes that are slightly out of the model.I might be wrong.

[MarcusMcCabe]

Amazing! So many subtles details in the movment!

[CSRealist]

Suze Orman does look like a Disney villain

[geetarRamblin]

I love looking at the rough pencil tests, there really something beautiful is all of them.

[larbox]

Ahahahah with Milt Kahl there is no such things as tweened animation.

[trine37]

@larbox Damn right! You leave something to an inbetweener, you end up with things like a priest with a boner.

[toonsandtunescontest]

magnificent!

[Snarg3000]

Truly amazing artist.

[RatWorld101]

That's amazing! *-*

[AniyuuWolf]

O_O

[FranThePan]

This is flawless animation here - so smooth, the flow is marvellous. An animation students dream to get to this level of quality...

[nhojproductions]

How do you imitate life? do any of you people who say this would look better live action understand how much skill and thought goes into this?

- May look effortless, thats just becuase its done so damn smoothly you would almost think this person exists-

[whataboutoddd]

I'm an animator and i'm not putting down the skill it takes to animate this way(*lifelike) I love doing this style of animating myself aswell. It's not easy, i agree. But it's certainly not the only and most interesting method to bringing things to life. I love the constant evolution of variety i guess. Like life, its ever changing.

[blekmaster12]

so what was this program ?

[jaisemand]

hand, pencil and paper

[therealdjspiff]

anybody who has anything negative to say about this animation is a complete moron, people this is an animation LEGEND in action you should be taking notes.

[CrashingThunder]

CREEPY. But friggin sweet :D

[cry4me2day]

is that the one show DARN i cant remember the name of it............ but i think the lttle girls name was annie am i right?

[Johnffrey87]

It's from the original Rescuers.

[StarnightStargazer]

The rescuers, but I don't remember the name of the girl

[VerseJer333]

It was Penny

[StarnightStargazer]

Thanks :)

[StarC0mmander]

incredible artwork!

[FritzOmnibus]

Great --goes without saying... I just wish I could click frame-by-frame on the lousy YouTube viewer.

[whataboutoddd]

I really admire and rspect the work of Disney-esque animation.. but all i can think of watching this is... "why don't they just live-action it?!" (*argh)

[mattmit]

This is much more dynamic and exaggerated than live action, but there are some animations that would have made more sense as live action. Like the final fantasy movie.

[FisiVisi]

@mattmit The Final Fantasy movie would have made more sense as a Bazooka Joe comic.

[Elizzabuff]

because this is art

[whataboutoddd]

By that logic, so is the way we all speak.

Point is, it's imitating life. I imitated cartoonist drawings when i was a kid, and i've outgrown calling that "art".

[VerseJer333]

of course imitating somebody isn't art, but maybe if you tried to actually animate something you might appreciate how much of an art it actually is

[whataboutoddd]

I went to school for traditional animation so i know a thing or two about animating.

Let me re-word myself. Imitating life "is" art(*its everywhere from comedians to actors, to dancers) And imitating life can be challenging(*especially when you're drawing someone at 24 frs)

All i'm saying is, i respect life-like animation, but that's not all that animation can do. People go ga-ga for life-like animation when really, animation should be explored more with different approaches and techniques

[VerseJer333]

oh I'm sorry I didn't know you were an animator also. I just figured you were one of those idiots who thinks animation is just bugs bunny and daffy duck and it is only for children. My apologies

[ireallyloveericlyons]

i agree, there is nothing here that you couldn't get some actors to do much cheaper

i like cartoons to take advantage of the medium and do stuff actors can't

[bigheadrhino]

That's like seeing a beautiful lifelike painting and saying "Why not just use a camera instead?"

[whataboutoddd]

No... cause camera's didn't exist when true classical paintings were done.

[nhojproductions]

I belive he said ," A Beautiful lifelike painting " not a classical one haha trying to spin his comment for your better eh :P

[whataboutoddd]

My bad. You're right.

In that case, yea! Why not use the camera instead ;)

[bigheadrhino]

I have to disagree about animation being an imitation of life. Like all art it's more like an artist's interpretation of life. Also this particular example looks nothing like live action, real people don't move like this. Compare this kind of animation to, say Fire and Ice, which is rotoscoped. Or Sleeping Beauty or the Angel/Fairy from Pinochhio, which were also rotoscoped. That's what real people move like.

[whataboutoddd]

Bighead: This line test is obviously satirical life like animation. Of course its not "real" but what animators did at Disney was mostly study from "real life". Look at the Illusion of Life book. I'm not saying this "way" of animating isn't commendable, it's just not the end all be all. Too many people salivate over the Disney style but why? Animation(*as an art form) can and is so much more.

[geetarRamblin]

@bigheadrhino He is not saying animation is an imitation of life at all. Almost every disney pixar movie you have seen, LIKE Bee Movie, have been thouroughly examined in real life. It is all those tiny realistic details that make an animation believable. They studied the flight of the bumblebee thouroughly. It's just the way it's done. Disney and Pixar are not abstract anyway, aside from some scenes of Fantasia.

[GR4C3W]

my goodness

[Uchitoru80]

The Rescuers!

[2k2i2s2h2a]

is this from bianca and bernd?? and the little girl!

[christianshounen101]

uuhhhmmmmm....what's going on with the screen and words

[christianshounen101]

I wish animation came back though -_-...can anyone explain why's disney not doing animation anymore?

[jamespearson]

they are doing animation.

[christianshounen101]

I mean pencil and paper animation.

[animark11]

they are working on those right now at disney. I can't wait!!!

[Jamerica9]

haha its taking to long, warner bros bought the rights to make Jeff Smith's "Bone" and I hope its 2d

[ilikestruffles]

traditional animation takes lots of time and money. the general public doesn't care for the actual animation so much as the fact that it's a Disney flick. most of the pencil and paper stuff is going on independently, since that's where people really have the passion it takes to put so much effort into something.

[dedidas]

yes it is in the movie...penny is in the cave, snoops says all shes worried about is that her teddy gets wet

[TaranWanderer]

Penny doesn't even mention her teddy bear during the cave scene, she's too concerned with getting out alive. This scene in which Madame Medusa reasures Penny of Teddy's well-being is not in the film.

[IntelligentCrow]

wow..............

[liveinsecond]

Look at those expressive yet effective lines! it's just wonderful!

[AlbinasLove]

How do you make it move? Do you actually make drawings fore every move and then combine them?

[kernel89]

indeed, thats traditional keyframe animation. Every single still is drawn, about 24keyframes for 1 second.

A 1hr movie would be like 86,400

[bpl6738]

it's not always on one's. Most of the greats would do slower actions(such as this shot on two'2( which would be 12 fps) It definitely helped speed up the process and wasn't noticeable. one's were only used for faster shots.

[christianshounen101]

I think they use a lightbox.like they put a picture on it,and they make another picture doing a different concept

[Neoneel25]

damn where can lightbox be purchased ? or my pencil tests I use ...window O.o old school method ahahah xD

[InklingStudio]

Neoneel25 asks: "where can lightbox be purchased ?" Google for Colin Johnson Animation Desks . You can get a good animation lightbox from that company.

[TServo2049]

Looks awesome. If they had just traditionally inked and painted the film, it'd have looked so much better...

[bpl6738]

I actually find that the animation loses something when it gets cleaned up and inked. I find there really a beauty to the rough animation pencil test.

[xcirgax]

That's why 101 Dalmatians is so expressive an wonderful. It was one of the Disney movies that they Xeroxed cleaned up drawings directly onto the cels. No inkers, just the slightly sketchy pencil lines.

[TServo2049]

Too bad the xerography on The Rescuers made the animation look REALLY sketchy and ugly...

[TaranWanderer]

Not really. When the picture appears clean as it was meant to be, then it is a very appealing and classic-looking style. The DVD print, though, is indeed horrendous, grainy and ugly.

[TaranWanderer2]

@TServo2049 Not it didn't. What makes the animation in the film look disastrous is the poor quality of most of the home video releases. Particularly the "latest" 2003 DVD.

[xoxUSAGIxox]

@bpl6738 i agree 100%, im a huge disney freak O_O i miss the classics

[miniroll32]

@bpl6738 - You're forgetting that this film was produced during the Xerox era. The drawings were copied to ink directly from a machine, so all the original lines were kept in tact :)

[acmulhern]

@bpl6738 101 dalmations managed to keep some of this energy by making the lines of the animation rough and sketchy. however, this takes a lot more work to do, because you can't have any still images or else the really stand out

[randomandproudqueen]

no i can lip read more "shut up you....dont worry my dear....teddys here with me" well im not sure about the teddy bit but

i love this animation its so clever madame medusa scared me as a kid

[bpl6738]

Oh Milt, your so great!

[randomandproudqueen]

all i could lip read was "shut up you"

[notsogoodartist]

(00,) wow!!!! very nice animation!!!

[ALLSIMSALLTHETIME]

wot movie is this?

just askin i never seen it.

[maryamrock]

rescuers... most of disney veterans retired afterwards

[ALLSIMSALLTHETIME]

oh ok thanks

[rawfood4life]

that is a pencil test from the film "The Rescuers" Disney 1977

[ALLSIMSALLTHETIME]

ok thanks but someone already told me but thanks anyways

[DreamerM]

Oh my goodness....my...goodness.....

If I die, just wave those papers under my nose and I'll wake right up. The best animator who'se ever lived. My god...

[MrBongers]

[continued from above]

But this particular scene of Snoops and Medusa looking down the hole into the cave is not on the DVD. Does anyone know what the dialogue was and how did this scene happen to get cut out of the movie ?

[MrPisster]

This was in the version I remember as a kid. They put that poor girl in a well. This is from the darker days of Disney. I remember this cartoon making me sad but sad is part of life. I am upset to hear it was cut out. Those characters really treated that girl badly but they shouldn't alter the art all these years later.

[Marbles471]

Yeah, this shot is definitely not in the movie. Odd. You can tell what scene it WOULD have been in, but it's not there. Maybe they scrapped even more completely animated scenes in their films than I was aware they did. (For example, two scenes from all the way back in "Snow White" were almost completely animated--except for inking and painting--but were dropped.)

[MrBongers]

What is this from ? I was going through the DVD of The Rescuer's trying to find this scene so I could grab the sound and sync it up with this pencil test , but the scene is not in the movie from what I can see . It looks like it's from the section where they have Penny down in the cave looking for the big diamond.

[TaranWanderer]

That's not Cruella DeVil, it looks nothing like her. That's Madame Medusa from The Rescuers.

[AkiAquaStar]

Yeah, I still don't quite understand why so many people mix them up...

[raposofan]

Cruella!

[AliciaDianne]

thats not cruella, this pencil test is from the rescuers

[brok3nxdreamsx]

omg i love that movie!

this is so awesome

[Sixter]

beautiful. I love this sort of thing. I want to see more pencil tests and story reels on DVD special features.

[caswal]

This is what I live for! The mighty Milt! Bury my heart in sweatbox four!

[jacarto]

want more of milt!

His style is my favourite of all the disney animators, including the nine wise men

[jeremyhopkins]

Wow, thanks James! Great to see you posting stuff here!

[thraxisjr]

Krunk yo!

[christiankuntz]

Thanks a million,do you have more of this?

[neener84]

Ahhhhh...Milt. I needed that! What a shame his work from 1966 to the end of his career was in such crappy drivel.

[DreamerM]

Excuse me, I don't think we're talking about the same Milt Kahl.

Oh Lordy...just look at that....