Monday 27 May 2013

[www.keralites.net] Real Prototypes of Disney Characters


Marge Champion - Snow White -When the animators began work on the movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," they had very little experience in the creation of a more or less realistic images of people. To fill this gap, Disney hired a "living model" - a young dancer named Marge Champion. The actress was dressed in a suit of Snow White, filmed in several scenes (mostly in those where a dance), and these images served as a model to create a cartoon character. Later, with the Champion drew another character - the Blue Fairy from "Pinocchio."


Eleanor Audley - The evil stepmother and the witch Maleficent - Disney animators often draw inspiration from watching the actors invited to voice, or even take them to find interesting details to the relevant cartoon characters. The majestic demeanor Eleanor Audley, for example, is ideal for creating an image came villain stepmother out of the picture "Sleeping Beauty."


Helen Stanley - Cinderella, Princess Aurora and other - Helen Stanley began working with Disney animators have at the end of his film career, and this cooperation has proved to be extremely fruitful. It became the prototype of such cartoon characters like Cinderella and her step-sister Anastasia, Princess Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty" and Anita Radcliff in "101 Dalmatians."


Margaret Kerry - Fairy Tinkerbell - It was rumored that the fairy Tinker Bell from "Peter Pan" was "sketched" with Marilyn Monroe. In fact, the prototype of the mischievous creatures served as the actress Margaret Kerry - and, animators took over not only its appearance but also gestures, and even some character traits.


Hans Konrid - Captain Hook -Another case in which the actor, who was invited to voice, becomes a model for the character. Before there was a cartoon image of the eternal enemy of Peter Pan, he was shot by actor Hans Konrida. Actor dressed as Captain Hook portrayed pantomime, which artists then repeated in cartoon form.


Sherri Stoner - Ariel and Belle - Sherri Stoner was a living model for the main characters of cartoon "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Little Mermaid." Posing for Ariel, Stoner swam to the artists in a specially constructed water tank.


These calves - Bambi and Felin - To create animated images of animals in "Bambi" (realistic and stylized at the same time) Disney animators also used live models. On the territory of the studio was arranged a zoo, which, along with other animals housed and two four-month calves - prototypes of the Bambi and his girlfriend Felin. Later, however, the content of the animals in the studio decided to give up, and now Disney artists looking for inspiration in zoos and other places where animals cared for by professionals.


Normal mongrel - Tramp - At first, the artists could not manage to find the image of the main character - a dog for the animated film "Lady and the Tramp." With an aristocrat - spaniel named Lady, everything was more or less it was clear, but how to be a tramp, no one knew until the artist Ed Penner is not picked up on the street spotted a stray dog, which all at once considered the ideal prototype. However, the prototype of the Rolling Stone was a girl, but this did not bother. After graduating film career dog lived the rest of days in Hollywood, at an animal shelter retired.
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