Paperman

Paperman was one of the first animated films to use CG.



Looking at the development drawings, I love how they have kept the original drawn character designs and applied them into the CG look; giving the piece a classic Disney feel while you watch it, while using advanced technology.

To animate in this way, you have to apply key frames so that the in-betweens can work out themselves. This is demonstrated in smiley faces during this sequence:

I would like to look into applying traditional animation into computerised technology in the future, to develop my skills and keep up with the 'modern times'.

Disney Animators - How Visual Style has changed over the years

Disney animations - the fairytales in particular - have always had similar styles over the years. I always guessed that this was because they wanted their films/brand to be distinguished as "Disney", which isn't a bad thing. 

There's a group on Facebook called 'Disney Animators' who post all sorts of things about Disney; random facts, meetings that they might have; and they've started answering questions from the public. 

This talks about how in the early days there wasn't much change in the style due to the lack of technology - everything was hand-drawn, so the animation looks similar to their initial ideas. However now they're exploring new ways to make films, so in the next few years they are going to use more of a variety of styles in their work.

Javier Perez

I found some nice images on Tumblr, of simple sketches around ordinary objects, which were created by Javier Perez... This is one of his accounts I found on Instagram:

He uses his imagination well, in thinking about what could be made out of an object/image, such as in these pieces: