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Top: First page of the exposure sheet for Chuck Jones’s 1938 directorial debut, “The Night Watchman”

2nd: Layout drawing by Chuck Jones for “The Night Watchman”, graphite and colored pencil on 12 field animation paper.

3rd: Tommy Cat model sheet drawings by Chuck Jones for “The Night Watchman”, graphite on 12 field animation paper. 

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Bubbles (1922)

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Hungarian animated film “Son of the White Mare” (1981)

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Norman McLaren, the great 20th century pioneer of animation technique, once said, “What happens between each frame is more important than what exists on each frame.”

From the TED-Ed Lesson Animation basics: The art of timing and spacing - TED-Ed

Watch the original film, “Pas de deux” by Norman McLaren.

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Marc Davis’ pencil animation for Maleficent from ‘Sleeping Beauty’ (1959).

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Early performance test of Shadow Dan from the cancelled Me and My Shadow.

Jakob Jensen provided some amazing live action reference for this which helped me out a lot.

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Big city green - pencil tests!

Here are the pencil tests along side the finished colour versions. I am not responsible for the great frog animation and Cricket jumping at the end though :)

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John Pomeroy’s model sheets for Disney’s Pete’s Dragon (1977).

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Milo Thatch concept art, by John Pomeroy. 

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Artistic Coordinator David A. Bossert talks about the layering process of creating the animation fx for the Firebird Suite from Disney’s Fantasia 2000. The fx animation was done by animator Ted Kierscey, while the character animation is done by John Pomeroy. 

It’s a great watch, I highly recommend it to understand how to layer your animation shots! 

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Glen Keane’s model sheets for Ratigan from Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

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Ken Duncan’s model sheets for Meg from Disney’s Hercules (1997).

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Kali Fontecchio’s mouth charts + character designs for the Mickey Mouse shorts The Adorable Couple and O Futebol Classico (2014).

*Kali is a pastel powerhouse, and she’s on tumblr! Click here to follow her.*

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The Road To El Dorado Model Sheets of Chel

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I was asked if there was a model sheet for Kida’s queen outfit at the end of Atlantis. I found this original model sheet (top) among my piles as well as an earlier exploration of the costume (bottom). Hope this is helpful. Maybe I’ll see some Queen Kida cosplay at ComicCon this year? Here’s hopin’!

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