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How Animated Cartoons are made
Q&A from Here's how section
Walt Disney
Will you please arrange to give the answers to the following questions about animated cartoon making on your page, "Here's How"? 1. In animated cartoons, if we want to show a subject approaching the camera, how are we to do it? By bringing the camera nearer the drawing? If it is done in this way, will it not affect the relative perspective of the picture; being better when the camera is at a distance? How is it done in ordinary pictures? 2. […] — K. A. J., Poona, India. 1. In normal photography, if we want to show a person approaching the camera, we can naturally have him walk right up to the lens, and if we want the camera to approach him, we can roll it toward him on a wheeled carriage. In animated cartooning, while we can, in some photographing installations, move the camera toward the drawings, it is much simpler all around to keep both the camera and drawings stationary, and to show the apparent movement by drawing it, just as we would draw in any other motion. Suppose, for instance, we have "Mickey Mouse" standing in the middle of a road, and want him to walk toward the camera: we simply draw him stepping forward — just as we would draw any other animation — but each drawing must show "Mickey" a tiny bit larger than the last one, for on the screen, size is the indicator of an object's apparent nearness. […] 2. […]

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Source type Magazine
Volume 17.4
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Language en
Document type Feature
Media type text
Page count 1
Pages p. 169

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Inserted 2016-01-20