Friday, July 01, 2016
The Secret Live-Action Movies Behind Disney's Animated Musicals
io9.gizmodo.com: When you sit through an animated film, everything flies by so fast. You barely get a chance to think about how much work goes into it. Animation has no second takes—everything has to be perfect and ready before animation begins. That means directors take drastic measures to get things right from the start.
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I love Disney musicals and have always wondered what the production is like. Obviously there’s a ton of animation, but how do they prepare for the actual animating part? This article answers that question. Even though it’s just for Hercules, it’s cool to see that live action musicals take part in the production of an animated feature. I’ve seen Hercules and loved it, and now that they’ve released a live action part of it, it’s even more fascinating. It’s interesting to see the different ways they’ve prepared the film. To produce a live action musical before the actual animation part of the movie is incredible, and an insane amount of work. Being a theatre tech person, it’s scary to see how much work and time went into this. They must’ve started the pre-production way before actually starting to animate. However, it is really cool to see a part of animation that people generally wouldn’t think is a part of it.
I love pretty much all animated movie musicals, but especially Hercules. As it is one of my favorite movies, I have always vaguely wondered how it was made. I assumed it took forever and a lot of studying of human features, I just did not think it took an entire other live action movie to make it. I enjoy learning how things are made, and especially art things, but when looking at how this movie was made, I just feel a little stressed out. I know in class we have been talking about budgeting and planning of various events, so imagining how much planning and organizing went into arranging what went into making this movie is slightly terrifying. Despite the daunting tasks that went to making it, I think Hercules is even higher up on my list of favorite movies because of this article. I also want to learn more about how older animated movies are made.
Sometimes I forget how much effort goes into such wide scale productions. Each moment must somehow be rendered, as animated movies aren’t constrained to one set and therefore allow fantastical places and travels. Flash scenes that occur in movies like Hercules never brought particularly impressed me before as it is easy to forget how much work goes into each drawing. The fact that there were real hired dancers and costumes threw me as well. It never occurred to me that animation would require live models and references with how far computerized models have evolved. I’ve always imagined that there was some web bank of movement or an easily moved computer model to simply shape and color into character. The “behind-the-scenes” of this production explains to me why the movies, which are rather short, are so intriguing and interesting that they can feel like forever: it's the reality of the motions and characters that draws me in and enchants me.
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