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purpleneenee:

mikewytrykus:

The Milt Kahl Head Swaggle
(Source: Cartoon Brew)

I love it when you can pick up an animator’s quirks.

     I’ve read in old interviews with Milt Khal’s fellow animators that he did the swaggle to purposefully show off. Moving the head in 3-d space is an exceptionally hard thing to do but Khal upped the level of difficulty to a place many animators wouldn’t go.
     Not only are they all doing the swaggle you’ll notice they are all TALKING while they are doing it. This is back in the days where you had to use a timing sheet to pace your animation and a head swaggle doesn’t work if its too slow or too fast so he had to figure out the right speed so it looked natural while the character finishes what they have to say while not interfering with the distinct mouth shapes.
      Not only did Khal do it without any shifting weight problems or timing issues he would often do it while moving the rest of the body. This isn’t his signature move just because he was good at it.This is his signature move because he was one of the only people skilled enough to DO IT AT ALL.

Milt Khal was a MASTER.

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cammadanar:

This was a big deal once.

Look at the CG animation on hair now:

oh my god, i remember watching the special features of the incredibles and they kept saying how difficult violet’s hair was to animate.

excuse me i think we’re forgetting someone else’s beautiful hair

YOU’RE RIGHT

Are we really overlooking the Disney/Pixar character with
2,320,413

individually animated hairs?

can’t forget this lil Dreamworks lady’s hair

One of the senior animators actually spent six fucking years trying to write a new program to animate Rapunzel’s hair.

adding to the comment above, it turns out that disney had to actually hire someone with a PhD in animating human hair to get rapunzel’s hair correct

a PhD in hair

Imagine hearing about Disney need someone with a hair PhD and finally being able to say:

“This is my time”.

AND THEN THERE WAS THIS REVOLUTION

I don’t remember which dreamworks movie that was, but I DO remember her hair being a big hoopla. Because curl bounce actually defies physics or something? At least when animating it?