WALT DISNEY – DEVELOPMENT OF ANIMATION

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WALT DISNEY

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5th 1901 - December 15th 1966) was an American business magnate, animator, cartoonist, producer, director, screenwriter, entrepreneur and voice actor.

Walt Disney was the creator of the most famous animations from the Golden Age of American Animation, 1937-1941.

Before he because famous for making family friendly movies, he started out making adverts for a living.

STEAMBOAT WILLIE

Even though it wasn’t his first animation, Steamboat Willie is Walt Disney’s most famous animation.

SILLY SYMPHONIES

Silly Symphonies were a series of animated shot subjects and they were produced by Walt Disney Productions. In total there were 75 Silly Symphonies and they were made between 1929 – 1939.

THE OLD MILL (1937) + MULTIPLANE CAMERAThe Old Mill (1937) was a part of the Silly Symphonies. The Old Mill won the 1937 Academy Award for Best Short Subjects: Cartoons. This animation was first of its kind to use a Multiplane Camera. This was a special camera that was used to create depth into a scene, with was meant to give it the illusion that it was 3D. To create this, multiple players drawn on sheets of glass and it was filmed from the top so it was looking down on the sheets of glass.

SNOW WHITE (1937)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Walt Disney’s first full length animated feature film. And was the first of its kind to use Rotoscoping – which it the process of capturing movement. When Snow White was being filmed, they used an actress with Snow Whites costume on, filmed her and then traced over it so they could animate it. So in the film her movements are much more lifelike than it would be if they had just drawn her from scratch.

FANTASIA

The film Fantasia (1940) was the first film to have stereophonic sound also known as Fantasound. Because the music in the film is orchestral Walt Disney wanted to make it as though a orchestra was playing in the theatre.

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (2009)

Even though Walt Disney died in 1966, The Princess and the Frog was Disney’s last traditional drawn animation.