Sunday, May 1, 2011

Raggedy Ann- The Greedy Sequence



There's some amazing animation in this film, contributors included legends such as Art Babbit, Grim Natwick, Tissa David, Tom Sito and Dan Haskett. This sequence above is my favorite of the film, I would have loved to see the drawings that went into this! It has to be one of the "fullest" animated scenes of all time, everything is moving! also, it has the flowy type of stuff that i just love. There's a great book about this movie written by John Canemaker, i highly recommend.

9 comments:

  1. This was done, I believe, by Emery Hawkins.

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  2. R O'Connor is correct : most of the Greedy is animated by Emery Hawkins, key clean up by Dan Haskett. John Bruno and Art Vitello took over the taffy pit near the end of the sequence when the dolls escape. (the opening part and the song is all Emery Hawkins.)

    There's a MUCH better print of it at this YouTube link:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC7PtQh4gA8


    -DN

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  3. Reminds me of the climax of Akira :)

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  4. thanks all.. and david, i'm linking to that movie instead.. you're right, way better quality.

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  5. By the way, I meant to second your recommendation of John Canemaker's making-of book on Raggedy Ann . It's a great behind-the-scenes making of book , one of the few books of its' kind that gives a real sense of what goes into a feature-length animated film from concept art all the way to cel painting and final photography . Although some of those things have vanished from the process (xeroxography , cels, Oxberry camera stands, Steenbeck editing machines) the book is still an accurate account of how a big studio feature-length animated film is made. The actual Raggedy Ann project in this case is incidental , it's Canemaker's obvious respect for and understanding of the various artists who contributed to the project that makes the book a good read.

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  6. John's book is really a groundbreaking work of scholarship in film studies.

    There was nothing like published prior and it's gone on to be a the template for the many lesser "making of" and "behind the scenes" books to follow.

    The English language doesn't contain the right words to describe how great that book is.

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  7. haven't seen the move, haven't read the book, but i'll definitely gonna check em out.. weird thing is my sister was the raggedy ann fan, I was too cool for that, now look at me >_<

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