Friday, November 30, 2007
Pencil Test: Virgil Ross Scene From A Hare Grows In Manhattan
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Virgil Ross had a sixty year career in animation. He was a friend of mine and let me make flipbooks of some of his favorite scenes of animation. Today, I digitized one and made it into a pencil test. It's a little larger than usual so you can still frame through it and study the action.
Pencil Test By Virgil Ross
From "A Hare Grows In Manhattan" (WB/1946)
(Quicktime 7 / 4 megs)
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If you like this cartoon, see our previous post...
Bugs Bunny In Coronet Magazine
Also see... The Pencil Test Of Art Babbitt's Greatest Scene, The Training Of A Golden Age Animator, An Interview With Playboy's Eldon Dedini, John Canemaker on Bill Tytla, Ward Kimball In Escapade Magazine, A Drawing Lesson From Walter Lantz, Grim Natwick's Scrapbook and Remembering Berny Wolf
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6 Comments:
The pencil test is great, but it's a shame that the drawings weren't re-registered before they were shot. You can tell that the test was shot from photocopies and that the copies have introduced spatial shifts.
This is invaluable! I have been wishing I had some way to take a scene from a golden era cartoon and watch it fram by frame. This has answered many questions I have about in-betweens and how to show quick action. Thanks!
I'm afraid the drawings were sold to the four winds many years ago. All I could do is copy them before they were dispersed. When I copied them and when I scanned them, I took care to keep them as carefully registered as possible. I'm afraid this is all that exists. If someone wants to volunteer to try to re-register them by eye, I'd be happy to send them the scans.
See ya
Steve
"If someone wants to volunteer to try to re-register them by eye, I'd be happy to send them the scans."
Steve,
Do the original scans/xeroxes have peg holes clearly visible ? If I've got peg holes then I can definitely do a re-register using TVPaint which has a pixel-tracker stabilization function which can probably re-reg this scene to rock-steady registration.
I'd be glad to take a crack at it , if there are peg holes visible on the original scans .
Let me know
inkling_studio -at- mac - dot- com
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This is great, Steve! Thank you for posting it.
I'm a relatively new student of animation and I found this site a few months ago. It's been one of my favorite internet discoveries and checking here has become part of my daily routine. The stuff you put up is fantastic. And of all the good things, these pencil tests are maybe the most valuable to me. Thank you.
-Allen
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