This movie was released in 1937 and was Disney's first feature film. Back then, as you all know, there was no computer animation or CGI. Each cel was painstakingly painted. I can't imagine how long this process took and Disney, if you'll pardon the pun, turned it into an artform sometimes banging out 2 animated or hybrid movies a year. Nowadays someone can bang out an animated movie like this in a couple of weeks.
shareObviously this film is a great testament to animation, as many of the early Disney films certainly were. However...
Nowadays someone can bang out an animated movie like this in a couple of weeks.
Parker and Stone can put together a South Park episode in 24 hours if need be, and they've done as much so my statement is not misguided.
share"South Park" is primitive compared to "Snow White". How long would it take to make a duplicate of "Snow White", using today's animation technology?
sharewhile not cgi, all the models and assets are already done and created. the characters, most of the settings ect. for sure they need to create a story and then play it through and record voices. but still 90% of the work is already dont
shareThe amazing thing is that those artists didn't know how to do this kind of animation when they started production on Snow White.
They went from "rubber hose" animation to realistic human forms within a few short years. And then when you see how far they took it with Bambi just a few years later? It's pretty incredible.
I wish the American animation studios put half as much care and experimentation into their films as the early Disney movies. They had a short "renaissance" but they just threw it all out the window when computer animation came along.
“ Nowadays someone can bang out an animated movie like this in a couple of weeks.”
LOL nice joke
FYI Disney and his animators didn't invent realistic animation, they just made the first feature-length animated film, and made it of better quality animation than any other studio was using at the time.
But realistic animation wasn't new, there's a animated film from 1918 showing the tragic sinking of the Lusitania passenger ship, and the animation is much more detailed and realistic than anything Disney ever did (see link). I'm sure there are copies with better film quality online, but I can't be arsed to sort through all the links to find one.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=lusitania+animated+film&&view=detail&mid=2B58536E6C83D09A85A32B58536E6C83D09A85A3&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dlusitania%2Banimated%2Bfilm%26FORM%3DHDRSC3
is this it? https://youtu.be/0Ugk348jStc
then I have to disagree its more detailed than Disney.
Yes, that is the film, and if you think that isn't more detailed than Disney you know nothing about animation!
Disney studios didn't attempt anything as detailed or difficult as those sinking shots until the CGI Era. The shots where every window was visible on the moving ship, and dozens of survivors jumped or shimmered down ropes were 100% hand-drawn, they weren't just little moving bits on a still (or rotoscoped) background, as was Disney's method in the 1930s.
they are different.
1. you are comparing a 1 hour 30 minute film to a 6 minute one (total time animated).
2. okay and? they were detailess silhouettes (of course besides their form). im not saying they look bad, but you are comparing black silhouettes. to multiple characters, whether its animals and Snow White, or Snow White and the dwarves, coloured in, with full detail, doing literal dancing routines.
3. okay using a certain technique doesnt take anything away from the animation. Winsor McCay used certain processes to make their process easier, "mine was produced the hardestest way" is not an argument for superiority
As you are saner than some people around here, I'm not going to get into some long argument about the correct criteria for saying a piece of animation is "the best". Hey, I'm sane myself!
I'm just going to say : DUDE! You can't give some credit to a piece of animation that was indeed made the hardest way, long before animation became an industry, and which still looks spectacular over a century later?
I don't see how there has to be a competition.
Both of them are excellent pieces of animation from their respective eras.
you clearly know about animation on a level I don't.
ohhh yaaa no it is impressive given the time absolutely. and rewatching parts of snowwhite to try and bolster my arguement the characters themselves were far less detailed than I remmebered
The most impressive technical bit of Disney animation I remember seeing from that Era was actually from "Pinocchio", made a year ot two after "Snow White". It's been a while, but I remember in Gepetto's workshop there was a wall of clocks, all moving with slightly different rhythms. That was a stunt animation there, meant to make all the other animators choke!
And thank you for being so very sane. So few are around here.
yaa im by no means an expert, or even slightly knowledgable on animation so most of that was my feelings.
hah no problem same
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