Tips & Tricks-Animation Treasures

The art on Hans Bacher's site is a visual treat and there's many fine pieces to view. A Link reference and quote from the Cartoon Brew blog: Art director Hans Bacher (Mulan) has started up an incredible new blog called Animation Treasures. He’s doing the painstaking job of recreating pan backgrounds from classic animated films currently on dvd (mostly Disney ones) to offer a sense of what the original backgrounds looked like before the characters were composited on top. There’s lots of insightful notes to go along with each image. Truly a terrific educational resource that everybody [interested in film composition etc.]should take advantage of.

Find it here: animation-treasures.blogspot.com

Hans hasn't removed every character from some of the screen grabs as scale of the characters is important in the composition of the shots of the Giant's castle. While viewing the art think of the action that is to take place on the artwork and how those areas need to be clear of distracting details and conflicting lines.