Ken Duncan

“I... I used to make long speeches to you after you left. I used to talk to you all the time, even though I was alone.”

Paris, Texas (1984) director Wim Wenders

…Beautiful Super 8 sequence…📽️

Young people be like; "That's B&W, I'm not gonna watch that".🥹

It seems to be,
"Don't be a Sucker"

Errr, not the people commenting on this post.
And not "all".

Agreed

Americans can't admit it, but Putin is the real leader. He's drooling as he watches this directive become reality. 🤤

It seems magical

A Desk's Journey....

Here a little story about my old Disney animation desk. Someone recently contacted me about it.
(I signed the underside of the tabletop)...

#disneyanimation #kdunc9
#animationdesk

Animating Jane during "Tarzan".

#animator #disneyanimation #tarzanjane #canadian #lefthanded

Assistants basically rough inbetweened shots. Or sections of some shots. So it would be difficult to quantify a quota. The records would show what they worked on....

Nice guy.

Yes, he was an assistant in the film.

There were around 40 animators on the film.

"Hercules Footage Report".

The final weekly report.
We used "footage" to asses the work total.
(1 foot = 16 frames of 35mm film). The goal was to average 5' a week (16x5 =80 frames).
My own animation total was 4 minutes of the film.
Along with supervising others, and attending countless meetings.

Yes, the directors felt it slowed the chase to a "stop"....

Yes, thank you.
The directors felt that it slowed down the chase sequence too much. Once they decided to truncate the shot I gave it to another animator to change it. I disliked re-doing animation...🧐

I'd been finishing up the animation of Meg, when I was asked by the Tarzan directors to be Supervising Animator of "Jane".
The film was already in production so I started later the other animators.
Some of Tarzan was already rough animated, such as this one; this is one of my early Jane tests.

No I've not seen her before...

Garbage with feet

Additional Belle scenes that I animated; the Library sequence....some in color, some as pencil tests.

The Beast was beautifully animated by Tony DeRosa.

(clip via Giuseppe di Maio)

#beautyandbeast #belle #disneyanimation #penciltest #2danimation

Mm, I'm not sure who did most of the Gaston scenes..
It's a good one though.

Yes, when supervising a character i usually didn't want to animate any others in the scenes, feeling that I didn't have a full understanding of the other characters. I wanted to focus on creating a strong performance throughout the film, with my team..and to animate as much of the character myself.🤓

Acting is generally one character reacting to another. So we decide on who is leading the action in a shot.
i.e. When he grabs the book, she reacts. So we did a sketch of Belle's location when he grabs book, then Andreas roughed out Gaston. I roughed Belle.
Upon Director approval we finished shot.

Belle Animation

The 2nd film I'd worked on after arriving at Disney.
I mainly animated some of Belle in the film, including these scenes with Gaston.
Animators:
Belle- Ken D.
Gaston- Andreas Deja
LeFou-Chris Wahl
Bimbettes- Dave Burgess

#beautyandbeast #belle #disneyanimation #bellegaston

Animator preference. I like drawing with red pencil, some use blue or normal lead....

Crazy. Glad I don't really buy any of these products, except Gillette razors and mineral water....

Meg's kiss;

My animation of the kiss; it seemed appropriate that Meg took charge here.
Hercules animation: Andrea's Deja

(Thanks for Jake Lee Animation's post)
#herculesmeg #penciltest #2danimation #kiss #disneyanimation

Yeah, it was the first sequence into production, so pretty much everyone worked on it.

Aladdin:
During the "Friends Like Me" song, I animate these belly dancers who appear from flames and run over to Aladdin.
The producer, who took belly dance classes, advised that placing one foot forward on a toe will allow the hip/pivot action.
#bellydance #penciltest #2Danimation #aladdin

Never thought of that but Mok has some of my favourite animation, especially in his red costume. Jafar does have a similar design style to ZigZag in "Thief and the Cobbler".