Aug
18
This is a really good story conference to study. There's so much in it, both revealing how Walt's story mind and story department worked. As a bonus, it reveals how he integrates gags with music -- not to overwhelm when they have animated music going, he pulls back on the...
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Aug
06
I love studying creation, even so more than the final product, because it reveals the inner workings of a creative process. One can learn a lot from process. It's something akin to 'give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he...
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Jul
26
Walt Disney – Snow White STORY CONFERENCE – SEQUENCES 1B, 2A, 2B, and 7A (Queen and Huntsman), September 26, 1936 This is a very fruitful meeting -- a lot was accomplished, mostly clearing up motivations behind actions. Participant 'Dorthy Ann Blank' is one of the few women in the story...
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Jul
12
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a reserve Armée de l'Air (French Air Force) pilot that wrote 'The Little Prince' children's book while in exile from occupied France in WW2 -- writing the book in America. After completing the book, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry returned to flight duty in WW2 Europe, flying for...
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Jun
09
Walt Disney – Snow White STORY CONFERENCE – SEQUENCE 5-B (S.W. SENDS DWARFS OUT TO WASH), September 25, 1936 In a continual effort to create a better product, these historical story meeting transcripts are the result of Walt first setting up a system of story conferences to discuss the bettering...
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Jun
02
My son and I recently completed a wonderful 8-day visit to Paris, and for me, the highlight was the visit to Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, where they're hosting 'The Little Prince' exhibit. I've always been an adventurer and therefore fond of its author d’Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- mostly because...
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Apr
07
Not directly related to the story line but a very important technique of Walt's entertainment value is INCIDENTAL ACTIONS: "WALT: As an incidental action, when the turtle gets up from the water water should be seen running out of the holes in his shell – don’t make anything of it,...
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Mar
23
I had been working on my southern Little Kit story a couple of weeks ago, the Little Kit's Driftwood Adventure story, when I read that Jon Batiste received an academy award nomination for music in the animated feature Soul. While I would take issue with some of Soul's story execution...
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Mar
10
A lengthy story meeting, considering how short the sequence is. Actually, the final sequence was cut back a lot from what was discussed here. For example, the fight scene completely gone, and a lot of the dialogue gone. Interestingly, they (concernedly) discussed how much of this sequence was dialogue, 450...
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Mar
02
One of my character designs from The Flying Moose cartoon. I first drew him with a pen and paper, settling on the design, and I then imported him into Autodesk Maya and modeled him as a 3D polygon structure. I also did the rigging, which means giving him a skeleton...
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