Production and Technology of the Jungle Book
A summary of the production process
The jungle book was released in 1967 by Walt Disney Productions. Before production of JB started, Disney had streamlined the whole production system so that he had one supervising director, one art director, four ,step animators and one story man. Walt Disney thought that the first version of the script for the jungle book was too dark for family audiences, that the audience won't be able to identify with the boy, Mowgli, and that the villain, the tiger Shere Khan, would be a cliche; so Disney himself took control and changed the production team. Walt wanted a film that was:
- Light
- Fun
- Entertaining
- And included 'happy songs'.
Walt didn't want to go anywhere near darkness according to the animator Floyd Norman.
Backgrounds were hand-painted- with the exception of the waterfall, mostly consisting of footage the Angel Falls in Venezuela- and sometimes scenery was used in both foreground and bottom and filmed in multiplane camera to create a notion of depth. The Jungle Book was created on transparent 'cels', a technique patented by Earl Hurd in 1914. The cels were originally fixed onto registers pegs and this way various layers of image could be shot at once and backgrounds didn't need to be repainted each time. However, Disney developed this idea by using a multiplane camera which photographed a much larger number of layers of frames at once (sometimes as many as seven layers), of artwork, each at different distances from the camera and moving at different speeds which created the illusion of depth and almost a 3D effect and allowed for tracking figures.
JB also used xerography, copying the animator's drawings onto a light-sensitive aluminium plate and then onto cels, unlike the old, painstaking hand-inking process, tracing them from paper drawings. The animators had to draw using thick black lines, as delicate ones couldn't br picked up by the copier, and it affected the final art style by creating rougher, shaper lines but generally the animators were pleased.
is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand on a physical medium. The technique was the dominant form of maintain in cinema until the advert of computer animation.
The 'Multiplane' Technique:
The multilane camera is a motion-picture camera used in the traditional animation process that moves a number of pieces of artwork past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another. This can also be referred to as a parallax process.
Xerography:
A drying copying process in which black or coloured powder adheres to parts of a surface remaining electrically charged after being exposed to light from an image of the document to be copied.
Backgrounds were hand-painted- with the exception of the waterfall, mostly consisting of footage the Angel Falls in Venezuela- and sometimes scenery was used in both foreground and bottom and filmed in multiplane camera to create a notion of depth. The Jungle Book was created on transparent 'cels', a technique patented by Earl Hurd in 1914. The cels were originally fixed onto registers pegs and this way various layers of image could be shot at once and backgrounds didn't need to be repainted each time. However, Disney developed this idea by using a multiplane camera which photographed a much larger number of layers of frames at once (sometimes as many as seven layers), of artwork, each at different distances from the camera and moving at different speeds which created the illusion of depth and almost a 3D effect and allowed for tracking figures.
JB also used xerography, copying the animator's drawings onto a light-sensitive aluminium plate and then onto cels, unlike the old, painstaking hand-inking process, tracing them from paper drawings. The animators had to draw using thick black lines, as delicate ones couldn't br picked up by the copier, and it affected the final art style by creating rougher, shaper lines but generally the animators were pleased.
Technology used to make The Jungle Book
Cel Animation:is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand on a physical medium. The technique was the dominant form of maintain in cinema until the advert of computer animation.
The 'Multiplane' Technique:
The multilane camera is a motion-picture camera used in the traditional animation process that moves a number of pieces of artwork past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another. This can also be referred to as a parallax process.
Xerography:
A drying copying process in which black or coloured powder adheres to parts of a surface remaining electrically charged after being exposed to light from an image of the document to be copied.
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