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scurviesdisneyblog · 5 months

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Character designs for The Aristocats (1970) by Milt Kahl

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bleaksqueak · 4 months

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Partial hand bank for Elias from my files. Some flats and some finished/lit ones, so good stuff with light differences!

#solivaga #my art #pu art #artists on tumblr #hands #art reference #art resources #drawing resources #like a weird fusion of milt kahl and sailor moon hands #he needs to go full Other Mother hands maybe #this is only a small portion of the sheet I have saved for myself to re-use and reference #but thought I'd share it since I was adding some new ones #it sucks not being able to use my own hands as reference #my little rat stubs don't do the trick #also please if you do anything like a comic that's very art heavy #don't be afraid of making and using character banks #it's your own art it's not cheating to compile pieces for reuse or reference #save yourself a ton of time and trouble and just have it around just-incase

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capturingdisney · 1 year

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#milt kahl #concept art #character designs #robin hood #robin hood 1973 #maid marian #disney #disneyedit #disney edit #capturingdisney #*

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acmeoop · 10 months

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Pinocchio Design Roughs (1938)

#30s #disney #pinocchio #production art #character designs #milt kahl #fred moore #concept art #animation art

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elijones94 · 7 months

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🐯🐾 Former Disney animator Andreas Deja wrote in a blog post that Tigger is a combination of a real tiger, a stuffed animal, and a Pablo Picasso-style drawing. Much like with my sketches of Wendy, I based these rough drawings on Milt Kahl drawings I saw online. They were of a scene from the 1968 “Winnie the Pooh” featurette “Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day” where Tigger excitedly proceeds to Pooh Bear’s table for a smackeral of honey, only to reject it after declaring “Tiggers don’t like honey!”. 🍯

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creepyscritches · 9 months

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The teenage kraken movie was actually not bad! I think it speaks to its target audience and ages a little below as well (always a nice touch) and the plot is pretty simplistic while focusing on more emotional development in the characters.

Really fun clown car animation though. Like another branch from the same tree hotel transylvania sprouted from, but more like everything is animated like a gummy snack. Blends the invertebrate kraken qualities really well with Gummy World Rules so they don't look frightening, but there's neat choices in all character designs that help the krakens' odd proportions not look out of place. Jaboukie's character's hips literally start at his elbows, but it works weirdly well.

Neat stretch and squash animation :3

#Creepy chatter #They didn't do as much old school 'break the character as needed' tactics like HT but you can follow similar style rules in both #I'm lol...only able to recognize old school animators like milt kahl by sight so idk if there's animator overlap #Kraken is DreamWorks and HT is Sony/Colombia so idk if there's many anti-compete clauses in the animators' contracts #Probably? 🤷

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arealtrashact · 7 months

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hi im sure this is a commonly asked question but are there any resources/media you're inspired by? i'm in love with the way your characters follow the line of action so well and how they're constructed from shapes; sorry if this is a repetitive ask. thanks so much & have a good day!

I have been asked this question before and I never feel that I give a satisfactory answer. I am inspired by music and live action performances more than anything ( boring, I know ). That being said-

Traditionally animated films I enjoy : The Prince of Egypt, The Jungle Book, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Cats Don't Dance

Artists I admire : Don Bluth, Milt Kahl, Mary Blair, Maurice Sendak.

As for line of action, here is some concise wisdom from the legendary Preston Blair.

#Trashtalk #Anonymous #There are definitely more artists to add but those are the big ones I'd say !

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doodles-and-memes · 1 year

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The Cuphead Show is a love letter to the 30's "rubber hose animation" and "golden age cartoons", but it also pays tribute to specific animators !

*Clip from season 3 but not a proper spoiler per say*

Just like season 2/ s1b, I have MANY THOUGHTS about this last batch of episodes ! I bingewatched it and enjoyed a lot of things. Will share my highlights later.

Now, it may sound silly, but my attention got particularly caught on a very short and specific moment of animation:

Doesn't Mugman's little head swaggle look familiar to you ?

It's just like the signature trademark of Milton Erwin Kahl, one of Disney's Old Men and supervisory team of animators ! I love when animators have their unique little quirks we can recognize when seeing the films/cartoons they worked on. I think this homage of the famous "Milt Kahl head swaggle" is completely intentional, as he used to do it with characters that are getting a bit too cocky or self-confident. Which is exactly the case for Mugman here (As he should, he deserves to be) !

This proves just how much love, thoughts and efforts the animators put in the creation of the Cuphead Show, with other very remarkable animated scenes through the whole series, and I think it's truly beautiful 🥺

Shoutout to them !

This makes me wonder: are there any other tributes we might have missed ?

#the cuphead show #cuphead #mugman #cuphead show season 3 #cuphead show spoilers #animators : we love you #Milt Kahl head swaggle everyone

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luchigeon · 5 months

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I adore your art style!! Are there any inspirations behind your style?

Thank you ! ;w; And yep, at the moment, I'm motivated to study more disney style's characters and expressions. The work of Milt Kahl is very inspiring for exemple

#ask

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abbinurmel · 2 months

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So, for a good....maybe 87% of my life, this one specific scene from the 90s animated sequel movie "Fievel Goes West", has lived rent free in my head. And thing is, despite that I have not actually sat down and WATCHED the film as an adult. And. I finally saw a clip of it on YT and well...just look at it.

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No but really look at it. Look at this brief comedic 'hero training' montage clip, and you realize this simple, cute little family blockbuster sequel, had WAY much more mind-blowing effort put in than it ever had to.

-To start, that clearly is the famous classical music piece "Hoedown" being used to inspire the soundtrack here, but it's being made somehow almost even more triumphant and fast in a span of under a minute.

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That kind of 'cleverly deliberate homaging classical well known songs but not so much it's obvious or a ripoff' scoring takes a compositional genius. You don't know it's even in there til you listen for it! Exactly as bone-chilling good to listen to as the original and as much now as it was decades ago. My brain was shocked that it still evoked shivers, watching a fat orange cat doing rope tricks. Speaking of which-

THEY DREW THIS. And PAINTED ALL THIS.

Every single bit of it OVER. AND OVER AGAIN. BY HAND.

Watch this clip again, slowed down. Watch all of this cat's many tiny fur tufts and fat rolls, and the wrinkles and expressive motions on this sheriff dog character. Someone had to draw all those moving around. They never had to. Who is the madman responsible for this. It wasn't some iconic Disney legend like Milt Kahl, and we know Do .Bluth was not here, so who the hell was it!

-The whiskers on Fievel and his tail being unnecessarily curled and punching IN TIME TO THE SONG as he is rooting his friend on.

-All these 'mummy' ropes, and the shadow on them.

-The shafts of light and the falling dirt and cave water drips at the beginning when Tiger prances about mockingly in the mine tunnel entrance.

-At 2:17 the bottle glass all reflecting OUR view of Tiger then shattering and the smoke on his slingshot and the excessively cool way Tiger twirls it around and then pockets it like a gun, complete with "action movie/fancy anime fight" style camera panning round and down his body in towards the holster.

-Look at the part at 2:06 with the punching dummy, from the clouds of dust and tiny straw bits that fly out when Tiger hits it, to all the different camera angles and the way they chose to bounce from third to first to third person again: look at when Tiger rushes up at the scarecrow with a pitchfork. They add 'camera shake' as a way to simulate the off balanced way he as a fat, clumsy, but now highly enthused excitable character specifically would run!

-ALL THOSE FEATHERS

OH MY GOD

They drew the movement of ALL THOSE FUCKING ***FEATHERS!!!!😱***

This isn't even a major scene. But it's taken so thoroughly seriously. This is pure art. This is pure gluttonous showing off. That is brilliant. I really cannot believe how strong this lives up.

Well done brain, you rightfully deserved pushing this on me for so many years.

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kylesvariouslistsandstuff · 1 month

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Every once in a while, these rough pencil tests animated by Milt Kahl - one of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men" and to my estimation one of the greatest animators - pop up on the internet...

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It is a deleted scene from THE RESCUERS, the Disney studio's 1977 animated feature.

I can only imagine where this scene would factor in, though?

I don't think it's a scene cut from the story they chose to go through with for the finished movie. The only daytime scene in New York City in THE RESCUERS is the beginning of the movie, when the Rescue Aid Society all get together within the United Nations building to find out where the next person in need is. After that scene, it's nighttime. Not too long after, they are out of New York...

My best guess is that this pencil test was done by Milt for a much earlier version of THE RESCUERS, when it was in development circa 1973-74. At one point, THE RESCUERS was going to involve a polar bear in a zoo voiced by Louis Prima, who had previously voiced the standout King Louie in 1967's THE JUNGLE BOOK. No shock, this character's name was also Louie. Director Wolfgang Reitherman liked to bring back actors that voiced in the animated films he directed at Disney. At another point, once the setting of the bulk of the movie was moved to the South, Phil Harris - Baloo, Thomas O'Malley and Prince John - was set to voice a bullfrog who lead the swamp critters.

I'd imagine the people above, including that vendor who looks like Kahl's Edgar from THE ARISTOCATS, are patrons at a zoo watching the wildlife in their exhibits. Note the bench and the fence. If not, then maybe in that version of the story, a baseball field was involved?

The zoo is kept in the finished film, but only for a short scene of Bernard and Bianca searching the rainy New York streets for any clues they can find. A lion's roar is heard, and that's it. The polar bear version of THE RESCUERS also featured a lion who was to be voiced by comedian Redd Foxx.

But it's fascinating that a piece of test animation exists that features these characters, ostensibly for a version of THE RESCUERS that didn't make it past early development.

Or I could be completely wrong in my theory, and that it is a cut scene from a version of the movie that's much, *much* closer to the released picture. If so, I can only imagine where it would've fit. Probably in act one.

What do you think?

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sleezeboss · 5 months

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I just wanna say I've been following you since late 2018 back when you were still kinda latched onto your CH phase, and I just wanna say it's amazing to see how much you developed characters that were initially inspirations based on others to your own complete new idea!! Quick art question, do you have any tips and tricks on how to draw hands?? (Bub and Rex will forever stay in my heart in their gay little corner!)

Thank you so much for saying that! These are some of my favorite sentiments to receive. It’s really cool to be perceived in that way where someone is aware of my history but supportive of my growth!!! It really means a lot to me, so thank you, again!!

and ok omg- for hands I’ve actually been on a bit of a hand-bender myself.

I’ve been watching a tooon of Marco Bucci’s art tutorials over on youtube, and I highly recommend this video where he breaks down hands with arcs and shapes

these are some recent studies I’ve done after watching this video

I also recommend looking at art masters like Milt Kahl!!! he was a master at structure and draftsmanship

as with trying to learn to draw any body part, the most helpful tip for me is to break it down into 3D shapes. thinking about the hand as a box with extended box digits really helps you understand the front versus the back of the hand. Hands have 2 very distinct sides that twist and interact with each other, so if you work on understanding those two sides of the plane or the “box” it really helps!!! but again, I really recommend watching that Marco Bucci video. He’s a masterful teacher and much better at explaining than I am!!

#art help #asks

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monstroso · 7 months

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literally what makes the aristocats bad. its got nice songs. it has silly characters. it’s got really pretty backgrounds and the old hand-drawn disney animation. it’s inspired by a true story. what’s there to dislike.

(*cough* aside from the racism that permeates most if not all of the old Disney movies but since that’s present in so many of them no special case should to be made against the aristocats for it to be a worse movie because of that shared trait *cough*)

also I hope this didn’t come across as like. confrontational or anything bc it’s not supposed to be. legitimately want to hear your thoughts 👍

No, I love this! I appreciate being asked my thoughts, especially since the good people in the tags have told me loud and clear that I am in the minority on this one.

I will say, I did not expect the poll to have quite the legs it's got on it now. My polls usually only get about 60 votes. If I'd known 4,700 strangers and counting would have an opinion on this, I might have worded it differently. The real reason I didn't include The Aristocats is because I knew it would run away with the thing. Most people consider it a classic, regardless of what my opinions on it actually are. I thought throwing in a cheeky little line about it would be a fun gag for my followers who know I'm a true hater at heart.

Before I even got this ask - and because the overwhelming majority of the tags on the poll are telling me I have no taste - I actually did start rewatching it! Hundreds of strangers on the internet have never been wrong before, right? Part of the problem is I have next to no nostalgia for it. We didn't own the VHS when I was a child, so the only times I ever saw it were when I'd go to a friend's house or borrow it from the library. Maybe my judgement was clouded by not having seen it in a very long time.

First things first: The good stuff. There are parts of this film that rank alongside the best of the Disney classics, and I would be remiss in not mentioning them.

The music, for one, is pretty good. You'd have to be some kind of real Scrooge not to enjoy "Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat" of course, but on a rewatch I did find myself grinning through "Thomas O'Malley Cat" as well. This is an easy point in the film's favor though, as I'm an absolute sucker for both big band and jazz. This is great use of your Scatman Crothers and Phil Harris, top points awarded for these two numbers in particular.

The animation is also pretty good. Especially on Edgar and Thomas O'Malley. Your mileage may vary on the Xerox style, but the animation itself is relatively unimpeachable. This was still during the era of the Nine Old Men, so there's all kind of impressive work being done with the big sweeping things like character movement and expression as well as in the more subtle animations like expressions and mouth movement.

The cats are doing all the cat stuff you'd expect like licking their paws and poof'ing their tails, but there's less expected movements here too, like arching their backs when walking alongside things or rolling in the dirt to dry off from the river. This is good character work, but it's also pretty standard for guys like Milt Kahl and Eric Larson. If you're at all interested in animation, I highly encourage you to read more about the Nine Old Men and their history with the studio.

(A big thanks to the tumblr gif artists for gif'ing the parts of this movie that look good so I can spice this post up with some relevant visuals!)

Now, the bad. Like many movies from this era, The Aristocats has something of a pacing problem. While it is necessary to do the work of setting up the conflict in the beginning, you might be surprised to learn that it takes 25 minutes for Thomas O'Malley to show up, which is when the story actually starts.

A huge part of the problem is that this movie suffers from a sort of directionless vignetticism that seems to have been driven only by the idea that it would be cute to see the animals do X, Y, and Z. "Oh wouldn't it be sweet to see the kitten paint?" "Wouldn't it be so adorable if the cat played the piano?" "Ohh, what if the mouse ate a cracker dipped in milk, wouldn't that be darling?" I have a very high tolerance for schmaltz, but The Aristocats is where even I must draw the line.

When the movie isn't being tooth-rottingly sweet, it's frequently boring, and when it's not being either of those things it's showing you another chase scene with the dogs and the butler. It's erratic, tiring, and strains the limits of the modern attention span even at the movie's incredibly sparse runtime. It's a 79 minute film and you feel all 79 of those minutes.

Tonally, much of the movie smacks of the kind of rose-tinted sentimentalism Disney was known (and even criticized at the time) for, but without the guiding hand of the man himself, nearly 5 years gone by this point. The studio was floundering in the wake of Walt's death, and The Aristocats is quite close to the nadir of this particular creative valley - though the distinction arguably goes to Robin Hood, I'm much softer on that film for a number of reasons.

The Aristocats reminds me a lot of Lady & the Tramp, in that it's the same story (down to the aforementioned racist caricatures of Siamese cats), but with cats instead of dogs and with a much less focused sense of purpose, tone, and creative direction. If you like The Aristocats for the music and the beautiful scenery, but you haven't seen Lady & the Tramp, give that one a try instead. The animation is better, the music is about on-par, and it doesn't have as many stupid chase scenes. Or just watch 101 Dalmatians, which outstrips both films on sheer charm alone.

I think I had more I wanted to say, but it was mostly rambling that got away from the point. On rewatch, I don't think this movie is as bad as I remember it being, but I stand by my decision not to include it in the poll.

tl;dr - The Aristocats isn't the worst. If you grew up watching it I totally understand having a soft spot for the music and the atmosphere. In a vacuum, I can't say I think it holds up but ultimately I'm not going to judge anyone for enjoying it. Thanks for the ask!

#the aristocourse #asks #chaoswithcausation #the aristocats #midsneypocalypse

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capturingdisney · 1 year

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