Thursday, June 2, 2016

What's Ollie drawing...?



I had been wondering for a little while what scene Ollie is animating in this vintage photo.
As it turns out, it is a scene featured in the Ollie Johnston chapter of my Nine Old Men book.
Does anybody recognize the other two gentlemen?





An absolutely gorgeous layout sketch for another one of Ollie's scenes.




Movie Life magazine published these scrapbook type pages in their issue from September, 1942.




9 comments:

  1. For you, it was difficult to draw Bambi?

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    1. The hardest character to draw and animate, ever.

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    2. However you could do l, and did excellent!

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    1. These guys were kids when they worked on the early classics.

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  3. how does it work? Ollie did the first rough drawing, and then himself did this clean version that shows Thumper and Bambi with these lines indicated by colored pencils?

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    1. No, clean up drawings are done by clean up artists.

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  4. I wonder if that jointed model still exists anywhere

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    1. Today it is with the Disney Animation Research Library, the ARL.

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