"We used to use live action for reference and I used it myself, only thing is that I didn't use it blindly... but we have a tendency, we have a bunch of lazy bastards around here and they would, they'd take the damn stuff, because they didn't have to think, you know, they draw the character over the damn photostats, and... that's what you'd get, you'd get the same performance you got in a 2nd rate actor, a 3rd rate maybe [...] well that's no way of working, no[...] I've said this before[...] I think that a guy ought to, ah, gee, you ought it to yourself and the medium, to know how things work, so you can do them, you know? [...] The ones [plates] that I've gotten most out of...the photographs were good enough so you could tell where the scapula is, you could see the motion of the skeleton pretty well,[...] and you could see which is high and low and what was sagging, what wasn't [...] you can take that stuff and you can analyze pretty well off of it, then you can apply it to live action, you can apply it to things that you watch moving, and you can sort of see it working, you know, it's like learning a language, really [...] analyze action and get so you know where the weight is and where muscular effort is used and where things are going along with just momentum and swinging through... that sort of thing..." :)
Milt Kahl, April 2nd 1976 (?), work reel presentation on Madame Medusa from 'The Rescuers'.
In The Animator's Survival Kit there's another quote that I'd add to this above, about understanding weight - Richard asks Milt "How did you ever get that Jungle Book tiger to weigh so much?", and Milt answers:
"Well I know where the weight is on every drawing, I know where the weight is at any given moment on the character. I know where the weight is, and where it's coming from, and where it's just traveling over, and where the weight is transferring to."
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I'm a character animator, visual artist, game dev, and music composer. I like to doodle, write, experiment, and plan my next big thing. I love tech that inspires and enables art. I have a formal background in music composition. And I like to walk around the world and see things up close. Archives
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