I find it funny that Kahl didn't curse once in this whole video. In John Canemaker's book on the Nine Old Men, he makes out Milt to be a drinking buddy of Ian McShane or Joe Pesci. Seems every quote I read from him features some expletive of some sort. It was said among the animators, though, that Thomas was the scariest and most intimidating. Kahl was the yelling one, Thomas the perfectionist. I can see that.
Milt Kahl wasn't very happy with animating the princes in "Snow White", "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty", but he studied live action very well by referencing the tiger in "A Tiger Walks" and putting the animation into shere khan for "The Jungle Book".
Anyone else getting terrible synch in this vid...? Appreciate the opportunity to learn more about Milt, but the sound coming in a second too early is very distracting.
They could draw humans easily its just they spent so much time on cartoon animals humans seemed complex, I think a key is to practice alot not drawing cartoon creatures but drawing real humans that have perfect apeal and life and volume out of you head, not from a model. If you do this out of your head and it can be done look at Hal Foster, John buscema, drawing everything else will be so much easyier. But the people have to have perfect proportions and apeal and volume and look beautiful
