Eric Brown
09-13-2007, 10:53 PM
This question was posted on the Boomerang forum in one of the replies, but has been unanswered.
In the early H-B shorts, one animator was given credit for the entire cartoon. Some of the animator's styles were very identifiable and that style usually carried through the entire cartoon.
H-B used to pay their animators by the foot of film they produced. Now, my question; did the animators produce only the KEY drawings and then have "inbetweeners" fill in the rest or did they produce all of the drawings required to produce a foot of film? At 16 frames per foot of 35mm movie film and with "limited animation" having the drawings shot "on two's" (each drawing often being photographed twice), the animator would have to produce 8 or so drawings to make a foot of film, if he did them all.
Is this the way it was, still is or what? Anybody know?
THANX
In the early H-B shorts, one animator was given credit for the entire cartoon. Some of the animator's styles were very identifiable and that style usually carried through the entire cartoon.
H-B used to pay their animators by the foot of film they produced. Now, my question; did the animators produce only the KEY drawings and then have "inbetweeners" fill in the rest or did they produce all of the drawings required to produce a foot of film? At 16 frames per foot of 35mm movie film and with "limited animation" having the drawings shot "on two's" (each drawing often being photographed twice), the animator would have to produce 8 or so drawings to make a foot of film, if he did them all.
Is this the way it was, still is or what? Anybody know?
THANX