Somewhere Out There by Don Bluth

Author:Don Bluth
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781637740545
Publisher: BenBella Books
Published: 2022-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

CGI

But isn’t it interesting that CGI has settled that argument once and for all? Animators use live-action reference all the time now, with some directors going further with a process called motion capture. An actor’s movements are recorded and fed into a computer program, which then applies a wire-frame puppet to the sequence. To me, that process more closely relates to puppetry than animation. Pulling strings on a marionette or pushing buttons on a computer model—it’s the same.

Work on Banjo continued over the weekends, with seventeen people crowded into that tiny garage. The weekday work on The Fox and the Hound was feeling more and more lackluster (except for Frank Thomas’s and Ollie Johnston’s scenes). To save money on the Disney movie, we were beginning to eliminate minute details: no cast shadows, no reflections in the water, no colored ink lines to soften the characters, no sparkles or wisps of smoke unless absolutely necessary.

“But can we make this look better at least?” I pleaded with the suits. I’d told them about our work on Banjo—not that they gave a hoot—but I just wanted to show them what we were learning: So what if you didn’t have money for a reflection? Turn the cels upside down, blur the lens, shoot the frame, and voilà.

The answer was always no. When I was first working at Disney as a kid, people would ask, “What would Walt do?” No more. The suits and the stockholders were prevailing over the artists. Cost is important—making dreams into reality means they have to be viable—so I wondered if I was being entirely fair. I consulted the man in the mirror.

“Am I crazy?” I asked.

Without hesitation, he replied, “No, but you are stubborn. That turns people off.”

“What am I supposed to do with all those newbies in the bullpen?” I complained. “No matter what I suggest, they take issue with it.”

The image stared at me for the longest time, then said, “Woolie warned you that there would be jealousies. He said to grow a thick skin. Or are you going to run away from the fight, the way you always do?”

“You’re calling me a coward?”

“Well, if the phoo shits.”

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