Wednesday, December 17, 2008

ROAR BOOK: Walt Disney the art of Animation

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5.Comments:
  • I always thought that drawing females was hard but apparently that's not always true; in "Sleeping Beauty" it's really tough to draw the male hero.
  • I thought that animators have always been artists but I was actually wrong; early animators weren't really artists, they developed into artists.
  • Drawing humans is tough; the drawings have to be very detailed.
  • Disney studio have high standards for hiring people to work; Disney studio hopes to find in applicants good draftmanship, ability to be polific, aptitude for technical perfection, sense of caricature, and sense of discernment.
  • I don't think I could be an animator because I can't draw and I don't meet any of the requirements.

4.Questions:

  • Why was money tight at the studio?
  • Where is Chouinard Art School located?
  • What is the relationship between animation and anatomy?
  • Who were the top animators at Disney studio?

3.Vocabulary:

  • Discernment: the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
  • Aptitude: capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent.
  • Intermittent: stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again.

2.Literary Terms:

  • Imagery: "A great section of earth juts upward with a roaring quake ... A flicker of lightning licks across a mountain plain ... A flaming tree hurtles to the ground." (page 153)
  • Indirect Characterization: "Banjo player Harper Goff was always breaking a string." Harper Goff is not a very professional banjo player. (page 159)

1.Overview Sentence:

  • Describes what Disney studio looks in an applicant, how animators draw human beings, and animation effects.

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