Today is the 70th Anniversary of the premiere of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film. To commemorate the anniversary, I’ve decided to post this great new reel that takes a look at how the film was made. It’s a bit cheesy, but it’s still amazing to think how exciting it the technology behind the film must have been to people of the day.
I had a chance to attend a lecture given by a Pixar animator a few years back, and I can tell you, the way they make cartoons now looks like rocket science compared to the way it used to be done. On the other had, when do you think was the last time a traditionally animated film was storyboarded, drawn, and colored entirely in the United States? A studio couldn’t even afford to hire the staff necessary to animate a film this way any more.
Source: YouTube
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