#amblimation

[wreckham]

The Holy Trinity

#balto #the lion king #spirit stallion of the cimarron #tlk #amblimation #disney #dreamworks #wolf #dog #wolfdog #canine #lion #cat #feline #horse #equine #nostalgia #beckhamdraws #happy new year

[chatretr0]

Balto Dark Deleted Scene

Scene: Steele's Death

Escena: La Muerte de Steele's

#balto 1995 #balto movie #balto #animation #english #animatic #2d #storyboard #storyboards #90s #1990s #amblimation #universal pictures #deleted scene

[karlamon]

Balto was released on this day 28 years ago in 1995.

This still remains among my all-time favourite movies. Beautiful, intense, emotional, and such a hugely loveable and relatable protagonist to me. I adore everything about it!

#balto #amblimation #Spotify

[punster-2319]

HAPPY 30th ANNIVERSARY OF MRS. DOUBTFIRE AND WE’RE BACK! A DINOSAUR STORY

Both released on November 24, 1993

#mrs doubtfire #robin williams #20th century fox #we’re back! a dinosaur story #amblimation #30th anniversary

[gritsandbrits]

#gb asks #meme #poll #cartoons #animation #films #disney #sony animation #crest animation #amblimation #don bluth #movies #OPEN POLL #nostalgia

[weirdgirl92]

Anyone else remember this lovable underdog (no pun intended)? 😁

Seriously though, I love this movie! My sister and I used to watch it several times at our neighbor’s house. Used to rent it a lot at Blockbuster as well. Also, I’m very pleasantly surprised it even had tie-in merch, considering how underrated it is.

#balto #balto 1995 #amblimation #vintage movie posters #vintage poster art #vintage vhs #vhs cover art #vintage picture books #picture books #movie novelizations #dvd cover art #90s nostalgia #90s animation

[nightcallerdraws]

Balto Character Studies 🐕

My parents bought me the Dingo Pictures version when I was a kid

#balto #balto 2 #balto 3 #balto movie #balto fanart #fanart #my art #digital art #dog art #character art #character drawing #character study #amblimation

[cartoon-and-animal-lover]

Trying to process the fact that Mars Needs Moms was directed by the same guy who directed Balto and co-directed The Prince of Egypt makes my brain hurt. 

#mars needs moms #balto #the prince of egypt #imagemovers #amblimation #dreamworks #simon wells

[animowa]

Balto (1995), Amblimation's third and final film, took creative liberties with history—and not in a good way.

#amblimation #balto #erasing history hurts my brain #Spotify

[domono08]

Well these fursuits are amazing, I can believe someone will make fursuits of of Balto, Jenna, and Steele! Like this top tier quality man!

#domono08 #furry fandom #hand drawn #animation #cartooning #blogs #artists on tumblr #black artist #fan artist #fursuit #old fursuits #90s nostalgia #90s #balto movie #Balto #balto 1995 #furry #nostalgia #amblimation #amblin #animated film #simon wells #kevin bacon #bridget fonda #jim cummings #anthro #dreamworks #furries #furry nostalgia #dreamworks animation

[dragonflavoredcake]

Animation Rant: Frozen vs Balto

Gonna say this right away: I do not hate Frozen. It’s well-written and beautifully designed, but I think the winter scenes (aka 90% of the movie) are unnecessarily limited.

“Limited?” I hear you ask. “What do you mean, limited? This is Disney! They have an animation budget comparable to some militaries!” I don’t mean Frozen was made cheaply or without great care. I’m saying it’s artistically limited, which in this case the color palette leaves a bit to be desired.

TL;DR: I like the color direction in Balto better than I like the color direction in Frozen and the post below explains why.

Let’s look at three scenes from different parts of the movie:

Three scenes, three times of day. The scene with Marshmallow happens in the evening, they meet Olaf around midday, and this shot from Frozen Heart occurs at either dawn or dusk. The environments are mostly periwinkle and a cool pink. The shot from Frozen Heart is the most visually distinctive with the orange in the sky. The lighting is all fairly soft and diffused, and aside from the hint of orange, it’s all cool colors (fair for a chilly environment). The scene where Olaf is introduced is almost monochrome.

Now, let’s do the same for Balto, an Amblimation movie from 1995: an evening shot, a midday shot, and a morning shot.

Location note before anyone comes after me: Frozen takes place in a pseudo-Denmark during the July of 1843, while Balto takes place in Nome, Alaska in the winter of 1925. Nome is further north than the northernmost tip of Denmark; most of Alaska is.

The evening shot has that bit of periwinkle in the snow, but it’s pushed to a blue-gray. The sky is orange and reflects on the snow with a subtlety that Frozen doesn’t quite manage. It warms up the scene to help the intended emotional impact.

The midday shot has a purplish gray that’s almost not periwinkle. It has very deep bluish greens for the trees, while Frozen has a dark, desaturated green on the parts where the trees are not smothered by snow. There are basically no warm colors.

The morning shot is more of a midmorning than a dawn like the one from Frozen Heart, but that’s what I could find. The shadows are sharper than anything from the example screenshots from Frozen, and I don’t think that’s just the 2D/3D difference. 

I’m not going to bog this post down with more images, but the artistic differences in color choice are really interesting to look at. There’s a lot in Balto that’s done in blue/orange, and Frozen has that pink/periwinkle color scheme going on. The difference is that the directors of Balto had to prove that their movie wouldn’t be a bunch of black and white dogs in a white field, and the colors reflect that.

Aside from the environments, costuming is probably a part of why I like Balto more from an artistic perspective—the characters feel like a part of their environment. Anna’s clothes are so bright that she almost doesn’t look like she belongs in the scene. (That kind of brightness is impossible to achieve without chemical dyes, which really didn’t exist yet.) Elsa has her own problems with her ice dress clearly being designed like a modern prom dress, but her coronation gown is lovely, her color palettes are fine, and they pretty much fixed any “costume is too modern” problems in Frozen 2, including the issue of most of Anna’s costumes being oversaturated.

In Balto, none of the costumes stick out like a neon sign the way Anna’s winter costume does. Jenna’s orange bandanna is pretty bright, but it’s just as saturated as she is. There’s no color correction when she gives it to Balto, because it’s basically the same color as his eyes. There’s no color disparity between the humans and the dogs; Rosie’s hair is almost same color as Jenna’s fur and her mittens and musher’s hat are the same yellow as Balto’s eyes.

The two movies have similar settings temperature-wise, but until I rewatched Balto and compared the two, I couldn’t pin down why I didn’t really like Frozen’s aesthetics (beyond it being plastered everywhere after the movie’s release). It’s all in the colors. Thank you and goodnight

#I will now get off my soapbox #frozen #frozen 2 #balto #balto movie #walt disney animation #amblimation #color theory #animation #art critique

[wreckham]

here *hands u a chibi balto i made in paint 3d* *hands u a chibi balto i made in paint 3d* *hands u a

#balto #paint 3d #paint3d #amblimation #animation #animated #gif #wannabe archaic cgi nargf narf #framerate may be too low. may tweak in future #but prolly not #beckhamdraws

[kodyboy555]

Here's the scene from "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West" where the hawk gets blown up by fireworks with color effects added by me. I used the color effects to blend in with the hot coals and fireworks.

#an american tail #anamericantailfievelgoeswest #amblimation

[merry-melody]

#balto #concept art #links #amblimation

[punster-2319]

Happy 32nd anniversary of Beauty and the Beast and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

Both released on November 22, 1991

#beauty and the beast #an american tail: fievel goes west #disney #amblimation #32nd anniversary

[joethetoonfanandoutcast]

Tooned Out (Universal style) live-action cast

Anyone remember Tooned Out's announcement but no further confirmation?

Well imagine if it was done by Universal instead of WB with this man seeing various animated characters from Universal-owned properties (Universal Animation Studios, Amblimation, DreamWorks Animation, Big Idea Productions, Illumination, etc.) as cameos.

First of all, for the two live-action characters, the main character and the therapist, who would you cast?

Main character: Andy Samberg, Jesse Eisenberg, Zach Braff or Tobey Maguire

Therapist: Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Paul Giamatti, Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Douglas, Bill Murray, John Lithgow, or Robert Downey Jr.

What do you think?

#tooned out #universal animation #dreamworks animation #big idea productions #amblimation #live action