Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Ray Harryhausen

Ray Harryhausen is an American film producer and stop motion animator, most notable for his work in films such as Mighty Joe Young (1949) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963). Jason and the Argonauts features a sample of his best work in a very famous sword fight between three live action men and seven animated skeletal warriors. Harryhausen was inspired to pursue the field of stop motion animation through the work of Willis O'brian in the 1933 film King Kong.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

OMG LAWL XD

best epic fail ever

Frank and Ollie

Frank and Ollie are a pair of retired disney animators who appeared as cameos in two of Brad Birds films (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant). The two are recognised for their work in a majority of Walt Disney films from Snow White 1937 to Fox and the Hound 1981. Both of them worked mostly as chief animators throughout all their films, Frank being the chief animator of all seven dwarfs in Snow White.

Frank and Ollie appear as two elderly onlookers in the incredibles, who witnessed the Parr family destroy the omnidroid. Both also provided voices for the characters.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Lady and the Tramp - Animation History

The story of lady and the tramp was originally written by Joe Grant in the 1930's who became inspired by a family Dog of the same name. Lady was a cocker springer who somewhat became replaced when Joe's first daughter entered the family.  However the story was shelved during production and wasn't continued until the 1940's. Walt had read a book titled 'Happy Dan the Cynical Dog' which gave him the idea to add a part of the cynical dogs personality onto lady, claiming that the character lady was 'too soft'. The events of World War 2 also put the project on hold resulting in Joe Grant eventually leaving the studio. In doing so Walt took credit for Joe's story claiming he had been inspired by giving his wife a puppy in a hatbox. Eventually the film was finally released in 1955.