#DISNEY ANIMATION DESK HOW TO#
When it finished, an animator or show artist was seated in front of an animation desk on a elevated platform showing how to draw a character and discussing animation (and sometimes avoiding the often-asked question of what films he had worked on and what he did).Īfter the finale film, guests moved into a museum-like display of artwork, cels, maquettes, duplicates of Oscars won by Disney for animation and more items usually promoting the latest Disney animated project and then exited into a store selling animation related merchandise. While waiting to enter the Disney Classics Theater to see this show, on the walls of the lobby were screens with short clips of Disney animators talking about the creation of Disney characters and their love of animation called “Animators on Animation”.
#DISNEY ANIMATION DESK MOVIE#
There was a pitch room for story and music right next to the glass and sometimes we would gather in there and pretend to pitch story ideas to amuse the guests.”Īt the end of the tour, guests queued up in a carpeted lobby area for their final film experience in another movie theater which was a retrospective montage collection of clips of highlights from Disney animated films.
“I didn’t hate being on display in Florida so much they took such good care of us that you couldn’t complain. It’s so hard to realize that the whole Florida studio is history now. Singer Rosemary Clooney and cartoonist Jim Davis ( Garfield) came by and so many others. “Michael Eisner occasionally dropped in on us wearing shorts and sneakers and a Mickey T-shirt.
“I remember shooting a scene on 3/4 inch video one day and looked up to see Jeffery Katzenberg looking at me from the other side of the glass! I picked a good time to be shooting! “I worked on Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990) short at the Florida studio and was in the fish bowl for most of it,” remembered my long time friend, animator Mark Kausler who also worked on the Back to Neverland short. They sometimes put signs or things on their desks to amuse the guests, including occasionally inappropriate items or tried to locate themselves towards the back of the room. The animators at Disney Feature Animation Florida referred to this area as “the fishbowl” referencing that they felt like goldfish in a bowl being constantly looked at by gawkers as they did their regular tasks. On overhead screens, brief animated segments helped explain what was happening in each step of the process. The experience began in a movie theater (this theater and the finale theater each holding approximately 250 audience members), then moved through all the departments of an animation studio–storyboard, layout, character animation, etc.–in elevated tiered passageways that allowed the guests to view the artists behind glass enclosures. In addition, BRC was responsible for scripting and producing the three different films shown during the tour: Back to Neverland, Animators on Animation and Disney Classics. In 1988, WDI approached former Imagineer Bob Rogers and his BRC company to create a tour of a working animation studio to handle approximately a thousand guests an hour. Guests watch from soundproof walkways as animators create new adventures for beloved Disney characters.”įollowing in the tradition of the Art of Animation exhibit that was at Tomorrowland at Disneyland from to Septemthat tried to explain the process of animation, display Disney art and then provide related merchandise like How to Draw books, cels and flip books, the Magic of Disney Animation pavilion tried to “plus” that experience. The Disney Animation Collection presents stunning art from sixty years of animated filmmaking. Exhibits explain the intrcacies of ink and paint, extremes and in-betweens. “Inside: Films provide the insiders’ view of animation. The magic of Disney animation is created here, every day, by a staff of over eighty talents artists and technicians who are producing new featurettes, starring classic Disney characters, for theatrical and cable release. The official description from 1989 of The Magic of Animation pavilion at Disney MGM Studios was “The new Animation Building at the Disney-MGM Studios is a working animation studio that just happens to have visiting hours.
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