I've been busy this week, so I'm a little late on this post, but I still want to get it out. The story conference is about washing up before dinner, with gags about dirty hands and men not washing. Here it is:
Jan
21
Jan
13
My 17-minute cartoon, The Flying Moose, is entering post production and I'm working on the opening credits and theme music. A rough edit of these opening credits with the music montage is now posted on this site's home page. Since the cartoon takes place in 1903 (the invention of the... read more →
Jan
05
This story conference dealt with the HUNTSMAN IN THE WOODS SEQUENCE, a continuation of a story conference they held 6-days prior, which transcript I posted back in November. This is quite a lengthy document, at 14-pages. It covered a lot of Disney story techniques that can only be truly understood... read more →
Dec
29
So here we are at the end of 2020 -- good riddance. Here's wishing for a great new year !!! ["It can't get no worse" -- John Lennon, Getting Better] -- Sky Danley
Dec
24
On this night before Christmas in the year 2020, I thought we'd flash back 87 years to the Walt Disney Studio's 1933 Silly Symphony, The Night Before Christmas. For each cartoon, the story department distributed an outline of the film to studio employees for the purpose of requesting gag submissions... read more →
Dec
15
I'm presently reworking a children's story to remove a rifle from the plot. It's not essential to the story arc, and weapons in children's literature have become a very sensitive issue, so I'm simply removing the rifle, replacing it with a capture net. Since their advent, weapons have integrated themselves... read more →
Dec
08
This story conference dealt with the ALONE IN THE WOODS SEQUENCE, a continuation of the story conference they held 6-days prior, which transcript I posted two weeks ago. In this session, they spent a lot of time working on actions and dialogue, trying to narrow down both to minimal (typical... read more →
Dec
01
I needed to model a cartoon car from the Wright Brothers era, and I chose a Buick to caricature. The finished model is a very simple design because it needed to fit into the style of the cartoon, which is very simple, mostly 2D. After modeling the car using polygons,... read more →
Nov
24
This excerpt, more than anything, shows Walt's optimism for life, and more than anything else, this evident optimism, in my opinion, is what propelled his success: "Get the thought that when you are in the dumps open up and sing and be happy. You don't know where your home is... read more →
Nov
17
I needed to build up a 3D barn asset for THE FLYING MOOSE cartoon, and I modeled this one from my childhood memories as a child spending summers at my grandmother's farm in Washburn, Missouri. It's a more cartoony version than her barn, and I modeled it using polygons in... read more →