Did you ever want to learn about hand-drawn animation from one of the modern masters of the medium? If you have a few free hours, here’s the opportunity to do just that. Deja View is the blog of former Disney animator Andreas Deja, who was supervising animator on such characters as King Triton from The Little Mermaid, Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, and Lilo from Lilo & Sitich. Deja shares not only his own artwork, but sketches and pencil tests by other Disney animators and inspirational artwork from artists outside the field of animation, all accompanied by his own insightful commentary.
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Friday Fun Link – Deja View
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Why I Love Animation: Beauty and the Beast – Part Three
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011This article is part of the series Why I Love Animation: Beauty and the Beast. To jump to any other article in the series, please use the following links.
Part One – Part Two – Part Three – Chip Interlude – Part Four – Part Five
Part One – Part Two – Part Three – Chip Interlude – Part Four – Part Five
The prologue left us with the question “Who could ever learn to love a beast?”. Who is the very next character we see? Belle. What is the title of the next song we hear, which is both the first song in the movie and the first song written for the movie? “Belle.” So if you don’t have some idea of who could learn to love a beast, you aren’t paying attention.
Why I Love Animation: Beauty and the Beast – Part One
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011This article is part of the series Why I Love Animation: Beauty and the Beast. To jump to any other article in the series, please use the following links.
Part One – Part Two – Part Three – Chip Interlude – Part Four – Part Five
Part One – Part Two – Part Three – Chip Interlude – Part Four – Part Five
Though I usually hate picking a single favorite anything, I will tell you that Beauty and the Beast is my favorite movie.
This is not a surprise to anyone who knows me and even less of a surprise to anyone who knew me as a teenager. For many years, Beauty and the Beast was my greatest obsession. I saw the film over twenty times in theaters, labored over countless drawings of the characters, purchased all manner of books, toys, posters, t-shirts, and other memorabilia, clipped out newspaper and magazine articles about the film, and dragged my family to the Disney on Ice adaptation. I’m sure that my age had something to do with just how hard I fell for the film. I was thirteen when it came out, exactly the right age to love a movie as wholeheartedly as I ended up loving this one. The film’s message of looking past appearances to the character within was also particularly resonant to an awkward teenager with little confidence in her looks. And yet, when I go back and watch it today, I feel something more than nostalgia. What I’m enjoying is not just the comfortable familiarity of something I loved when I was younger, but the amazing achievement of a dream team of talented filmmakers at the top of their game. To me, this movie remains the Disney fairy tale’s high water mark, the most perfect example of the genre.
