Aristocats V. Robin Hood

Side by Side differences between the dancing scene in Robin Hood and Aristocats. Created about 25 years apart, it seems Robin Hood's Maid Marian
was rotoscoped over Duchess in the dancing scene.

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Aristocats
• robin
• hood
• dancing
• scene
• maid
• marien
• Duchess
• disney
• animated
• movies

[SaberWingDragon]

It's simply re-using base animation. Do you know how long it would take to completely re-draw all those frames and develop another dance? It's the same idea as using a base for a drawing or re-using the same pose, but with animation. Quite common in Disney films actually, saves a lot of time.

[AnimalationXP]

It's very very hard to do what Disney did. Walt Disney himself drew every single frame and then got editors to fix them together. Dance scenes are probably hardest, and doing all that himself, you can't blame him for re-using a clip for about 5 seconds of Maid Marion footage.

[WishfulThinking911]

Disney was going through cheap times

[RazinBlastroth]

It's not really surprising. A lot of time, effort and money goes into these things...You can't blame them for saving some. It's like running scenes in old cartoons and animated movies...They totally recycle the background. Same thing, really. It's like an old animation kinda thing...Slightly charming, really.

[DaGavinX]

Lazy.

[jimihendrixfan2008]

I lol'ed

[123PurpleCorn]

all there doing is saving time and money, that one dance seen probaly took around 50 or more frames to make it that smooth :3 they are smart

[Gonzomadman78]

@AnimalationXP Sorry, but Walt himself never drew a single frame of animation for any of the Disney films. In fact, he stopped doing any drawing at all after the Alice Comedies in the mid 1920's. His partner Ub Iwerks did all the animation for the original Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts, starting with "Steamboat Willie", and he had a group of animators before that working on the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series. This is pretty widely known stuff.

[EllenRebecca3]

I remember noticing that as a kid. Remember the 'sad' music? Played in The Jungle Book when Baloo was 'dead'? It can be found in 101 Dalmations before Pongo and Perdita started barking for their puppies and in Robin Hood when they Robin was dead.

[AnimalationXP]

@Rayimyth Actually, Snow White, Fantasia and Bambi were all of his sketches. The other animators just did the colours and cleanup.

[Rayimyth]

@AnimalationXP Dude, Walt Disney did NOT draw every single frame by himself. What are you even talking about... Animations have hundreds of animators...