dear any unexperienced artist who feels bad for needing references, watch this video. expert artists use references constantly. you can't capture life without looking at it!
Thanks.. I always felt so bad for using a reference, some one even bullyed me for this, and since then i never used a ref ever again :( Till this year:)) i opened my eyes i guess, but i still feel a bit bad
@@ionelacristiana7713 Reference is part of the job especially if you are drawing something you never drew before it's best to use it as much as possible.
@@ionelacristiana7713 there is no way reference is wrong, except if it's some pose from internet that you can easily recognize and you want to show your art using it, but you can take pictures of your family, friends or yourself, to capture what you want to see. Reference is a must, because my poses often look so right, yet they are so wrong. That's how I learned to draw.
Modern animation actually probably has much much more reference filmed for it due to the convenience of technology now, however it's mostly filmed by the animators themselves in a special room rather than with a full set of hired actors on a soundstage
I don't know if this was true for the other classics, but since Snow White was Disney's first full-length animated feature, animators would draw their cels over top of the live footage frame by frame to make it as fluid and accurate looking as possible
@@misslady2639 actually in most cases the the princesses were designed before they selected the ladies who posed for the animation. The ladies were just selected for movement, most likely with a similar body structure to the characters in mind.
Usually just from certain scenes, like the song numbers. Also they didn't shoot them like actual movie scenes, as you see in the video. Imagine if you actually had been one of these original disney characters, but nobody would belive you, because these reference works are so unknown.
Is kinda surreal to me seeing this black and white footage thinking they were just living those moments as a we would normally live our day to day life
What's even more surreal is the fact that in roughly 50-60 years from now we'll probably be looking back on life right now thinking we were just living these moments like we usually would do everyday 😂 Times are certainly crazy
And one day other people would look at the videos we once filmed and we will be dead....... dead! Seriously we need to find a way to extend our lives! They are too freaking short! Who else here wouldn't mind being immortal? Or at least being able to choose when to die... (Sort of like in A Brave New World)
Around that time, hair maintenance was a daily thing, so you can achieve it by using a lot of hair spray lol Some actresses and models also used wigs back in the day 🤷🏻♀️
Damn if I actually tried and brushed my hair I might achieve that but my hair is so thick that brushing it is a pain in the ass. I gave up dreaming of becoming a princess after that. lol
@@RawrTen I don't know how it sounded in English, I've watched the movie in my language and our voice actors are considered the best, so Jafar sounded great to me.
It makes sense considering this was early days of animation where they were beginning to form the fundamentals of animation live action references surely helped a lot in creating the worlds Disney brought to life with glass slides and brushes.
Art is just a reflection of reality, it just can't all be 'out of our head' references are very important, it started as the 'capture the moment' thing, then evolutionated to 'do what reality can't ' and today with all the technology in our hands we can just 'create our own reality'
4:23 must've been hard to twirl like that all day and trying to depict constant movement on paper as fluid and as accurate as possible... dang disney classic really is something else
PureLittleLamb She probably does since she’s doing something called spotting. If you slow down the video to .25 speed, you can see her doing it. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it basically means she chooses one point to look at while she’s spinning and she continues looking until the very last second where she quickly spins her head around, this helps combat any dizziness.
Marina Gonzalez Agreed! I always love watching Alice reference footage, specifically that character because I played Alice once (a brunette version). She’s truly enjoyable to watch, she did the voice as well for both characters which adds a bit more magic in my opinion.
Kathryn Beaumont was declared a "Disney Legend" in 1998 ... the highest honor you can get at Disney. Not that many people know about the "Disney Legend" award. She deserves it.
I remember when I was six seeing bonus features of artists drawing Aurora for her dance scene in the forest. I was mesmerized by both the model (then I thought she was the real Sleeping Beauty) and the artists and their talents. As an artist myself, it made me believe I can do work like that one day.
Aurora and Cinderella’s model and actress is seriously just like her character. Plus the same can be said for Maleficent and Cinderella’s stepmothers actress too
@@danibunny1005 well the first one is snow white, second is toy story, but the last one I'm trying to figure out (If the last one is from Pixar I'm not sure)
Despite all the dark stuff that happened all over in Disney history, the classic animations were so good and were very true to the references and models used. I love seeing that kind of stuff because I don’t think we do that as often as we should anymore. It’s a lot of hard work hand-animating all that!
Walt Disney actually started out with footage of a live action girl against a white sheet that he then made into an animated silent cartoon. This was years before Mickey Mouse. 😁
well they are x'D but these were that way to look.. cartoonish because it is a cartoon, but nooooou... girls have to feel BaaaAAAAaad about their bodies, I don't see anyone complaining how unrealistic the princesses of today are I mean look at their big heads and Huge eyes, but nooope they only care about waists and how skinny they look :Y
Absolutely incredible. Cartoons and animated movies were poo-pooed as 'kid's stuff' at the time, and yet Disney went to such elaborate lengths to create animation that represented real life so brilliantly. I remember seeing a documentary about Disney on TV once (back in the 80s or early 90s) and they mentioned Disney studios created a huge, elaborate machine to make a 'walking through the woods' scene so incredibly believable, recreating 'camera' movement, focus, and depth-of-field to the point of perfection. For Disney and his animators, this work was truly a labor of love. The stories could have been told with far more conventional animation techniques, caricatures, and so on, yet Disney insisted on and invested in developing such elaborate and effective techniques. Every person has a hero to look up to. Mine was, and remains, Walt Disney - a man dedicated to finding and entertaining the child inside all of us.
1:05 Fun Fact: The lady who did the live action reference and voice work for the Blue Fairy, Evelyn Venable, was also the Columbia Pictures lady at the time.
I think the Aladdin reel shows that some of the actions the characters do in the film are plausible in real life. I find that really fun and it shows how ANIMATED those actors are. The live action Aladdin team should've looked at these for inspiration.
I love love love how animated the actors are 😊 Their expressions and body movements are amazing, makes me want to grab a pen and try to capture them haha
I love Aladdin reference the most! They put so much effort in there (every single movie do. But I’m taking about Aladdin now). And their moves are so great.
Amazing. These actors get so little credit for the work they put in. Acting out the movie so the artists could draw from that reference, often using awkward props/settings, can’t have been easy.
I just think it's AMAZING how the Disney classics were made, the way they captured the image of the actors and drew it is very cool, that's why the movies come out with fluid and natural animation. INCREDIBLE ♡
The effort that went into these early movies is insane. Animation is still one of the most labour intensive arts if not jobs, but back then it was just another level of insane.
Back then: Even cartoons used real actors to some extent. Nowadays: Even *live action* films use CG instead of real actors if they can help it. It just makes you think. 😄
Hard to believe that Marge Champion is still alive! She's 100 years old. She was the performance model for Snow White and the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio.
Disney should do a documentary on this... and more importantly, acknowledge the amazing people/models who gave many generations of children amazing childhoods.
Fun Fact: Bobby Driscoll, the animation model and voice for Peter Pan, died penniless and homeless in 1968; his body was found by two boys, lying on a cot in an abandoned building in New York.
Wow is wonderful to see, all the work and the final result. None of the movies now will have that magic again. Pd: I wish the acting of Sherri Stoner in Beauty and the Beast was here too
Helene Stanley was playing Aurora and Cinderella, and I think it was Eleanor Audley as Lady Tremaine and Maleficent (definitely Maleficent). Kathryn Beaumont would've been Alice, and I think Ed Wynn would've been the Mad Hatter.
Kinda wish they would've stayed with this concept till this day when voice acting for Disney animated movies. Seeing the actors also acting and giving their characters life is so beautiful.
