Treasure Planet Scene Assignments

[tealin]

So ... I was watching Treasure Planet today, trying to get back in the Amelia groove (results of which may be posted relatively shortly-ish), and noticed a couple interesting things:

1. I think Crazy Cartoony Animator Guy, who was on the Milo crew in Atlantis and who I suspect also did the scene where Jim is trying to coax Morph towards him when they're escaping the mutiny, also did a scene of Amelia in her office. I hadn't noticed it before but watching with the sound off puts the animation forward. It looked like he'd been told 'Now, you have to really pull back on this one,' but there's something crazy and cartoony just below the surface. I'm probably vastly overestimating my Name That Animator skills. It's the scene with the line 'Mr Arrow, please escort these two neophytes...' and it hooks up with the one before it which I'm almost entirely certain is a Ken Duncan scene so maybe it's just an anomaly, but ... the mouth ...

2. Who animated her when she's getting up after crash-landing on the planet's surface? Because WOW – holy draughtsmanship, Batman. That's the first scene in the movie where you get a downshot of her head (which is what I was looking for) and then when she stands up and brushes her hair back ... SOLID. It could be the cleanup person, but none of her other cleanup looks like that, and I don't think it's Ken Duncan because the mouth shapes were wrong and it's not his flavour of line. It might be live action reference but if it is, it's very well disguised. I wonder if Sergio Pablos did it ... I want to believe ...

I suspect today's icon is going to get a lot more use in the coming months. Just a hunch.

Oh, and in case I forgot to post this back when I found it (or even if I did, it's worth a rewatch)... best dialogue animation ever:

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

The animation may be, but the cleanup drives me batty sometimes. It's not as bad as Atlantis and it's ... well, the lines look nice ... and people are pretty much on model ... But construction! There should have been a formula for Jim's nose so it didn't float around everywhere. And guidelines as to how many tendons and wrinkles you're allowed to draw. And someone, somewhere, should have pointed out that a character that is all blubber and a character that has an exoskeleton should not be animated like they're made out of the same thing. Squash and stretch is a good thing but it has to be tempered to suit the material being animated. I don't know if Scrope's rubberiness is the animator's fault for doing it in the first place or cleanup's fault for not fixing it, but argh! And the coolness of the initial designs was, for the most part, crudely dampened in the final models.

Rgh.

By the way, I really liked Sword in the Stone when I was young ... which raises an interesting question: does it simply appeal to children, or is it an example of Animation Predestination, and I liked it because was was an animator-in-waiting? Would the childhood appreciation of SitS be a convenient way of finding the Animation Elect? Where's a Puritan when you need one?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Cruelly. Cruelly dampened. Not crudely. That adverb must be saved for what happened to the original characters' models when they were cheapquelized.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

... Other characters, I mean. From other movies. At least TP's financial failure exempted it from the roster of cheapquel fodder. Thank the animation genii for that ... a loveable adventure featuring the catdog offspring would have been too much to bear.

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]