I looked at how Disney animators are taught life drawing to help them in creating life like gestures and postures in animations and use these to create unusual/individual character traits. These youtube clips below, shows how animators filmed a live action (with actors) sequence and traced over it frame by frame to create more realistic movements through drawings. This video above is likely a promo film for the Disney studios, but I’ve read that this was a technique used for

As you might have guessed from my other blog posts I am a huge Disney fan, so I thought back to what I already know about the processes involved in making their animations. Something I’d read in ‘A Brief History of Walt Disney‘ by Brian J Robb came to mind. It mentions that for Disney’s 101 Dalmatians and subsequent films, the Studio created a new way of animating called the ‘Xerox Process’ by adapting the Xerox printing machine to transfer drawings onto cells, cutting costs