On bell it is really clear some were pretty bad back then some amazing. On monsters it is harder to tell cause our eyes are more adjusted to recognize human faces.
CGI and hand drawn animation are both beautiful in their own right, the art moving in a new direction does not take away from how amazing these pieces are. This will always be there, it’s not disappearing
People still do traditional animation. They just don't do it the way they used to anymore. Every time I watch Beauty and the Beast, I've been thinking about the live action remake.
+KevinKlineisawesome Me too!!! I'm mixed about the long wait -- nice to know they're not just rushing it into theaters and taking their time to make it rock on the one hand, but on the other...well, tick-tock! And the longer there is to wait, the longer there is to vacillate between excitement and worry about the finished product.
it's amazing looking at these how you can tell the artists really have to be masters of perspective and lighting to give these drawing real sense of life. It really is magical the amount of love and commitment that goes into 2d animation.
Wow -- almost jaw-droppingly exhausting, how much you can accomplish and how complicated work with merely a pencil and paper can be. No wonder this was the first full-length animated feature to be nominated for Best Picture!
Computer animation is great when it's part of telling the story (like for Toy Story), but it can't compare to the close relationship an animator develops with the character through hand-drawn animation!
So inspiring…and yet so humbling. I'm a Graphic Design/Theatre major, and I want to do this for a living more than anything, even though I don't know where it will be professionally. :/
I honestly love 2D animation AND 3D, as they both take TALENT. Never think for a second 3D is any less than 2D. 3D movies has it's ups and downs of movies but SO DOES 2D. I wholeheartedly love both medias and think they can both express emotion in amazing ways, unique to their own.
As a 2-d classical animation student, I really wish to thank you for posting this video. The illusion of life is a great bible if you want to learn more about the way this art came to be, and the principles that were really pushed by animators like Art Babbit, Marc Davis, and my favorite 3 animators of all time, Milt Khal, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. To those who are just interested, the animator is not the job u'd get first, u'd start as an in betweener, and progress upward."TIMING, TIMING
I love the beast, but whenever I see Glen Keane's work, I immediately think of Ratigan. He was also this multi-faceted character. One moment he is gentlemanly, the next he snaps and looks animalistic.
I don't think I blinked for the duration of that video, for fear I might miss something! It's astounding how much work goes into an animated movie - but, those animators did a beautiful job. Glenn Keane is truly awesome when it comes to capturing subtle emotions - as are a few of the other artists, I'm sure.
I know this way takes more time, but it really just gives the film more heart. The love someone dedicates to each frame, from the sketches to full color really shows in the end result. All this 3D modeled crud has so much less dedication and personality. I love Wall-E, sure, but I want more of this gorgeous 2D.
This may be a 4 year comment, but how about using digital tools? A lot of hand drawn animation these days are done digitally, and if you take a look at the behind the scenes of some old hand drawn animation movies, you can see that the colouring is done digitally. If that's not your thing, who's stopping you from picking up the pencil and animating your own thing on paper?
When you watch animations you know no one's think "This is just a cartoon/clay moving/computer data/puppets" No, they're thinking "These characters are alive and they're real".
The most awesome people on the planet, and they're stuck behind a piece of paper on a desk. I love these guys so much!!! Being an inbetweener would be a pretty fun job- and not as difficult as being a full-on animator!
"flowy rough animator" - I really hope that's on the job application! :D I guess at big studios you'd start a career inbetweening anyway, then progress to key animator with more experience and skill. I'm also not entirely sure if Belle was already inbetweened in that shot, maybe some animators do more breakdowns than others?
I'm watching a whole bunch of the videos to learn how to animate properly.. I really understand how much effort goes into these movies because it took me about 3 hours last night to make an incredibly short animation, and when I say that it means less than two seconds long. But I'm still working on it. c:
I don't see why people hate on 3D so much.. it all uses the same developmental process, they just take the extra step and create the characters and scenes in 3D...
Wow, genius. And the product of hard work. Hope I'll one day achieve the status of these guys... heh, good luck to me. :Þ I'm an animation enthusiast and this really inspires me. Thanks for posting.
All you people hating on 3d, did you realise Beauty and the Beast was one of the first disney movies to use 3d? Yes, this movie contains the CG you oh so hate.
@ffles I think what most people are trying to express is how 3D is used TOO MUCH. In Beauty And The Beast It's used very tastefully ...Just like how CGI should be used tastefully instead of being overly used for everything. I don't hate 3D or CGI but I do hate how movies are flooded with them to the point where when you look at a movie preview you think "Oh brother another movie with badly done CGI or 3D effects that are supposed to WOW me! would it kill them to use other effects?".
oh and theres no real system for adding inbetweens beside tweening in flash and such which isn't the same FBF is the best animation ever a tweened animation feels so mechanic while an FBF is alive and personal.
If you really feel that way you should do it! I'm a professional animator, and I love it, its tons of work, for example I'm at work as I'm writing this (its Sunday evening here) but it if you really feel like its worth all those extra hours, you would probably make a good animator :D
I love movies like Beauty and the Beast and I'm so grateful that it isnt going anywhere, however the majority will agree that most Pixar animation nowadays feels bland and reproduced. I have always loved the iconic Disney Renaissance and like many others, I'm not really looking forward to the way the way the company is heading. They need to acknowledge that their 2D animations and movies were the backbone of Disney themselves and with stories that actually meant something and loved by all ages. But now I feel it's spiralled into corporate bull with no sense of storytelling. Wishing one day they listen. Bring 2D back. We all know we want it. :)
@ffles Haha nice! I'm just an animation major right now, lol. i don't know too much, but I know enough to respect it. That's cool that your a 3D animator though :O.
2:05 What the narrator said there literally had me cracking up for a few minutes xD That would probably take me a week or maybe a week and a half to do the rough and then the clean-up afterwards....
Dude, Princess and the Frog had a budget of 105 million dollars. It earned at the box office 104 million dollars. Winnie the Pooh had a budget of 30 million dollars. It earned at the box office 26 million. Do some research on the internet. Disney does NOT have any plans for anymore 2D animated features.
Please rethink your statement.3d animation has just as much time and effort and anime work is often thankless despite all the hours put in by the animators,which unfortunately,has a disproportionate wage to hours put in system.All animation,3d or otherwise,is multi-layered and we shouldn't base everything on face value alone.That being said,I won't bash your opinion,I just wanted to say that it's all hard work,nothing is easy and we should respect that at least. :)
@aandre311 Well, Flash, in my eyes, is just the next step to traditional 2d animation. Guys like Harry Partridge or the makers of the Book of Kells, Cartoon Saloon, utilise flash animation in such a way, that it never shows that it is flash. Plus alot of animation now is drawn on a wacom or cintiq, ie when Disney did The princess and the frog, all of that was drawn, by hand, digitally, as it cut down on the costs of paper, ink, and pencils. I hope they make more hand drawn films too
@diegoradoblasio Hate to burst your bubble, but Disney does NOT have any future plans for 2D animated features. This is due to the fact that "Princess and the Frog" and the recent "Winnie the Pooh" did not meet the box office expectations Disney was hoping for.
@adarahs It's an opinion, I never said you had to agree with it. Besides, those are bad examples because the point of those shows is to make people laugh. I never said what Pixar was showing wasn't amazing, it is. And I know it takes work. But it's HERE, in this kind of work, where I feel the artists get a bit more of themselves into it. I just like traditional 2D better. 3D can be gorgeous, but it's not what I prefer. You can like whatever you want, just let me like what I like. Okay? :)
@christianshounen101 there's plenty of traditional animations out there (though admittedly nowhere near enough!) but watch L'Illusioniste(the animation) by Sylvain Chomet, came out this year. Also Chico and Rita will be coming out this year :]
@christianshounen101 I don't have a problem with 3D animation as a medium for animation. It's still a great art-form and it makes it much easier for studios to stay in business. However, I hate how everything is becoming 3D. It's making those of us that actually want to do 2D, traditional animation lose hope about doing what we love...
assistants add inbetweens. You should check out the Animators survival kit A great book and worth the money but if your poor there are places online you can find a digital copy for free.
@kitsunechan90 yeah it's hilarious. I'm a 3d animator and we do the same processes we did when we used 2d. I ignore most of the comments because a lot of the time they're from 14 year olds who think they're being nostalgic about movies that were created before they were even born.
@catlover901 this kind of argument shouldn't be necessary. I don't care if the artist had a hard time, or if the craft is in itself very hard. 3d animation is suffering from cliche acting and too much 'tude with stupid jokes. There are exceptions, and fortunatelly they are becoming more frequent
I always wondered how characters drawn by different people all looked like they were done by the same in the end.
+jonescalypso They have model sheets with turnarounds to follow but it is part of the skill
If you have a really good eye, you can tell who animated what, even in the final product.
@@ARedMagicMarker you don’t really need that if you watch Steven Universe
Look Saitama season 1
On bell it is really clear some were pretty bad back then some amazing. On monsters it is harder to tell cause our eyes are more adjusted to recognize human faces.
Disney should really should return to 2d animated movies. Its such a lost art now :(
But you still love your Frozen and Tangled, huh?
+Deva7 i want something like the beauty and the beast more
@@Deva7 Sure I do, but not for the fact they're CGI. They have a good story. If they were hand drawn, the two would be sooo much better...
@@WildVee ppl hate on cgi too much
@@Deva7 bro, the frozen 2D concept art is so beautiful, it's kinda disappointing (for me) they don't go with the original stily
that james baxter is just so good at making people happy with that beach ball
James Baxter is SOOO talented
CGI and hand drawn animation are both beautiful in their own right, the art moving in a new direction does not take away from how amazing these pieces are. This will always be there, it’s not disappearing
People still do traditional animation. They just don't do it the way they used to anymore. Every time I watch Beauty and the Beast, I've been thinking about the live action remake.
+KevinKlineisawesome Me too!!! I'm mixed about the long wait -- nice to know they're not just rushing it into theaters and taking their time to make it rock on the one hand, but on the other...well, tick-tock! And the longer there is to wait, the longer there is to vacillate between excitement and worry about the finished product.
+looneywoman Well, to paraphrase Shigeru Miyamoto, A delayed movie is eventually good, but a rushed movie is forever bad.
ijfharvey
Very true! 😎 😎 😎
it's amazing looking at these how you can tell the artists really have to be masters of perspective and lighting to give these drawing real sense of life. It really is magical the amount of love and commitment that goes into 2d animation.
Wow -- almost jaw-droppingly exhausting, how much you can accomplish and how complicated work with merely a pencil and paper can be. No wonder this was the first full-length animated feature to be nominated for Best Picture!
I love being an animation student. Seeing these inspire me further. :)
Computer animation is great when it's part of telling the story (like for Toy Story), but it can't compare to the close relationship an animator develops with the character through hand-drawn animation!
it's still amazing on how so many years of hardwork finally paid off.
So inspiring…and yet so humbling. I'm a Graphic Design/Theatre major, and I want to do this for a living more than anything, even though I don't know where it will be professionally. :/
I WOULD PAY TO HAVE THESE LEGENDS TEACH ME HOW TO ANIMATE LIKE THEM
Sorry I'm late
I honestly love 2D animation AND 3D, as they both take TALENT. Never think for a second 3D is any less than 2D. 3D movies has it's ups and downs of movies but SO DOES 2D. I wholeheartedly love both medias and think they can both express emotion in amazing ways, unique to their own.
You can still make cartoons on your own.
Yup. Just make a film as good as a Disney film. By yourself. With no experience or training. How hard can it be?
Lot easier said than done
Id might take 15 years of training but yea
This film was a masterpiece. A beautiful masterpiece :)
Ahhh, I want to be an animator. Seeing this featurette inspires me and reminds me why I love 2D so much. Thanks for uploading!
People often take animation for granted... ;w;
As a 2-d classical animation student, I really wish to thank you for posting this video. The illusion of life is a great bible if you want to learn more about the way this art came to be, and the principles that were really pushed by animators like Art Babbit, Marc Davis, and my favorite 3 animators of all time, Milt Khal, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. To those who are just interested, the animator is not the job u'd get first, u'd start as an in betweener, and progress upward."TIMING, TIMING
I blame everyone in the world for the decline of 2D animation.
Blame 2d animation itself. Rebeltaxi made a video on it.
Fair enough
I love the beast, but whenever I see Glen Keane's work, I immediately think of Ratigan. He was also this multi-faceted character. One moment he is gentlemanly, the next he snaps and looks animalistic.
I love animation... simply inspirational.
Oh my gosh, just looking at that finale of Be Our Guest made me want to scream. xD
I don't think I blinked for the duration of that video, for fear I might miss something! It's astounding how much work goes into an animated movie - but, those animators did a beautiful job. Glenn Keane is truly awesome when it comes to capturing subtle emotions - as are a few of the other artists, I'm sure.
I know this way takes more time, but it really just gives the film more heart. The love someone dedicates to each frame, from the sketches to full color really shows in the end result. All this 3D modeled crud has so much less dedication and personality. I love Wall-E, sure, but I want more of this gorgeous 2D.
I'm a HUGE fan of BatB, Thanks For Posting!
Hands Down to all of you traditional Animators!
I wonder how many animators had a mental breakdown while working on this movie, holy shit!
The best disney movies were the hand dran and animated ones. They were and always will be :]
This is just so amazing how they make the animations, layer by layer.
Will such amazing animation ever be attempted again?
This is what I wanted to do with my life when I grew up. Now I've grown up and I can't because everything is animated on computers now. u_u
You can do anime.... work for miyazaki instead?
This may be a 4 year comment, but how about using digital tools? A lot of hand drawn animation these days are done digitally, and if you take a look at the behind the scenes of some old hand drawn animation movies, you can see that the colouring is done digitally. If that's not your thing, who's stopping you from picking up the pencil and animating your own thing on paper?
You "can't?" Just do it anyway!
Me, too!
When you watch animations you know no one's think "This is just a cartoon/clay moving/computer data/puppets" No, they're thinking "These characters are alive and they're real".
The most awesome people on the planet, and they're stuck behind a piece of paper on a desk. I love these guys so much!!! Being an inbetweener would be a pretty fun job- and not as difficult as being a full-on animator!
Such talented people
"flowy rough animator" - I really hope that's on the job application! :D
I guess at big studios you'd start a career inbetweening anyway, then progress to key animator with more experience and skill. I'm also not entirely sure if Belle was already inbetweened in that shot, maybe some animators do more breakdowns than others?
Hand drawn animation is a beautiful art that Disney was very stupid to get rid of.
Beauty and the Beast will be My TOP Disney's Favorite.
No matter how many years will pass.
I'm watching a whole bunch of the videos to learn how to animate properly.. I really understand how much effort goes into these movies because it took me about 3 hours last night to make an incredibly short animation, and when I say that it means less than two seconds long. But I'm still working on it. c:
Couldn't put it better than this myself ! i totally agree.
A dream job !
Thanks for posting, this sort of featurette is a goldmine to an animation enthusiast like me.
I would love to see more hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation, even if it's all done on computers. No motion-tweening unless it's absolutely necessary.
How come they dont make 2d catoons like these anymore they were awsome :(.
Thanks for posting! I love art tests/concept work.
Yep, it's called The Princess and the Frog and it's being directed by the same duo who directed The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Treasure Planet.
I don't see why people hate on 3D so much.. it all uses the same developmental process, they just take the extra step and create the characters and scenes in 3D...
I love watching these while I learn how to animate
Wow, genius. And the product of hard work. Hope I'll one day achieve the status of these guys... heh, good luck to me. :Þ I'm an animation enthusiast and this really inspires me. Thanks for posting.
I love animation and have always wanted to be an animator but I never truly realized all he work that goes into a simple 2 seconds
Key and inbetweens drawings , they are like husband and wife...
I love it :) they are awesosme animators :)
whoa they truly put their hearts in this
TOTALLY AWESOME!
Wooow this is making me nostalgic
This rocks, animation is the best
I wonder that too. A lot of people (except maybe Richard Williams) are of the mindset that 2s work fine except for fast action and such.
Glen Keane
Yay animation!!!
so inspiring.. thank you so much for uploading. :D
Simply amazing work
Marvelous job!
This is sick. Now i feel inspired again. let me get busy. lol
i suddenly feel like watching these movies again...
The spinning chandelier scene definitely looks like one of those 'kick your own ass' scenes. I wonder how many people it took to do the whole thing.
Im in first year of 2d animation and this really inspires me:).....cuz now I terribly suck!!
All you people hating on 3d, did you realise Beauty and the Beast was one of the first disney movies to use 3d? Yes, this movie contains the CG you oh so hate.
@ffles I think what most people are trying to express is how 3D is used TOO MUCH. In Beauty And The Beast It's used very tastefully ...Just like how CGI should be used tastefully instead of being overly used for everything. I don't hate 3D or CGI but I do hate how movies are flooded with them to the point where when you look at a movie preview you think "Oh brother another movie with badly done CGI or 3D effects that are supposed to WOW me! would it kill them to use other effects?".
oh and theres no real system for adding inbetweens beside tweening in flash and such which isn't the same FBF is the best animation ever a tweened animation feels so mechanic while an FBF is alive and personal.
Beautiful work, I would love to have this job and know how to animate like this...
great inspiring video...i think every animation student should watch this video...thanks for uploading!
JYYYAAAAMES BAXTAHHHHHH
That is impressive.
I hope to one day work for Disney. I just hope I can help need to the magic. Thank you for the wonderful inside look ^_^.
If you really feel that way you should do it! I'm a professional animator, and I love it, its tons of work, for example I'm at work as I'm writing this (its Sunday evening here) but it if you really feel like its worth all those extra hours, you would probably make a good animator :D
I love movies like Beauty and the Beast and I'm so grateful that it isnt going anywhere, however the majority will agree that most Pixar animation nowadays feels bland and reproduced. I have always loved the iconic Disney Renaissance and like many others, I'm not really looking forward to the way the way the company is heading. They need to acknowledge that their 2D animations and movies were the backbone of Disney themselves and with stories that actually meant something and loved by all ages. But now I feel it's spiralled into corporate bull with no sense of storytelling. Wishing one day they listen. Bring 2D back. We all know we want it. :)
@ffles Haha nice! I'm just an animation major right now, lol. i don't know too much, but I know enough to respect it. That's cool that your a 3D animator though :O.
That would be nice ^w^
thedse people r so talented
A good work！
2:05 What the narrator said there literally had me cracking up for a few minutes xD
That would probably take me a week or maybe a week and a half to do the rough and then the clean-up afterwards....
Dude, Princess and the Frog had a budget of 105 million dollars. It earned at the box office 104 million dollars. Winnie the Pooh had a budget of 30 million dollars. It earned at the box office 26 million.
Do some research on the internet. Disney does NOT have any plans for anymore 2D animated features.
Please rethink your statement.3d animation has just as much time and effort and anime work is often thankless despite all the hours put in by the animators,which unfortunately,has a disproportionate wage to hours put in system.All animation,3d or otherwise,is multi-layered and we shouldn't base everything on face value alone.That being said,I won't bash your opinion,I just wanted to say that it's all hard work,nothing is easy and we should respect that at least. :)
I agree but who are you talking to??
@aandre311 Well, Flash, in my eyes, is just the next step to traditional 2d animation. Guys like Harry Partridge or the makers of the Book of Kells, Cartoon Saloon, utilise flash animation in such a way, that it never shows that it is flash.
Plus alot of animation now is drawn on a wacom or cintiq, ie when Disney did The princess and the frog, all of that was drawn, by hand, digitally, as it cut down on the costs of paper, ink, and pencils. I hope they make more hand drawn films too
Yes...I'm very stupid with titles. ^^;;; I probably will add it in and check mark it myself on the application.
That seems like a good idea. Thanks :)
Magnificent
@diegoradoblasio
Hate to burst your bubble, but Disney does NOT have any future plans for 2D animated features. This is due to the fact that "Princess and the Frog" and the recent "Winnie the Pooh" did not meet the box office expectations Disney was hoping for.
@adarahs It's an opinion, I never said you had to agree with it. Besides, those are bad examples because the point of those shows is to make people laugh. I never said what Pixar was showing wasn't amazing, it is. And I know it takes work. But it's HERE, in this kind of work, where I feel the artists get a bit more of themselves into it.
I just like traditional 2D better. 3D can be gorgeous, but it's not what I prefer. You can like whatever you want, just let me like what I like. Okay? :)
@christianshounen101 there's plenty of traditional animations out there (though admittedly nowhere near enough!) but watch L'Illusioniste(the animation) by Sylvain Chomet, came out this year. Also Chico and Rita will be coming out this year :]
the way I just stumbled to an old video...
Man, I would not want to do final animation. Seems like ALOT of effort.
@Laroling Thanks!
@christianshounen101 I don't have a problem with 3D animation as a medium for animation. It's still a great art-form and it makes it much easier for studios to stay in business. However, I hate how everything is becoming 3D. It's making those of us that actually want to do 2D, traditional animation lose hope about doing what we love...
WOW.
@nuke97 couldn't agree more.
The sad thing is like most 2D animated cartoons and films they're shipped over to Korea to be animated now a days. :(
I hate how most animators are just replying on 3D softwares nowadays. 2D seems way more awesome.
assistants add inbetweens.
You should check out the Animators survival kit A great book and worth the money but if your poor there are places online you can find a digital copy for free.
Right, right.
@kitsunechan90 yeah it's hilarious. I'm a 3d animator and we do the same processes we did when we used 2d. I ignore most of the comments because a lot of the time they're from 14 year olds who think they're being nostalgic about movies that were created before they were even born.
Someone please do a mmd motion for beauty and the beast
@catlover901 this kind of argument shouldn't be necessary. I don't care if the artist had a hard time, or if the craft is in itself very hard. 3d animation is suffering from cliche acting and too much 'tude with stupid jokes. There are exceptions, and fortunatelly they are becoming more frequent