Walt Disney

Walter Elias 'Walt' Disney was born December 5th, 1901 and died December 15th, 1966. He was an american film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon and philanthropist. Hw was well-nown for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney productions, which later became one of the best known motion picture producers in the world. He and his staff created some of the worlds most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse. During his lifetime he received four honoury Academy Awards and twenty-two Academy Awards.

Toy Story 3

Toy Story 3 earned $1,063,171,911 worldwide, to become the highest grossing 2010 film worldwide and the 7th highest grossing film of all time worldwide. It is also the highest grossing animated film worldwide, it was nominated for five Academy Awards - Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song and Best Sound Editing. Approximately 120,000 story board frames were produced for Toy Story 3. It took 6 months to add the images to the computer and add colour. Another 9 months to animate them and then a week to render it all.

Fantasia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XChxLGnIwCU

Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney. The film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of music (conducted by Leopold Stokowski). The soundtrack was recorded using multiple audio channels and reproduced with Fantasound, a pioneering sound reproduction system that made Fantasia the first commercial film shown in Stereophonic sound.

Fantasia consists of cartoon animation as well as live-action photography. During the production of Fantasia, segments would be colour-keyed scene by scene so the colours in a single shot would harmonise between proceeding and following ones. For inspiration on the routines in Dance of the Hours, animators studied real life ballet performers. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEjPDS8Jp1E)

The Ave Maria segment/sequence provides the illusion of depth to the 2D drawings.

"A difference in the width of the pencil line was more than enough to cause jitters, not only to the animation, but to everyone connected with the sequence".

Disney ordered many time-consuming and expensive reshots. Over 1,00 artists and technicians were used in the making of Fantasia, which features more than 500 characters. To create the illusion of "moving" sound, a three-way differential circuit device named "The Panpot" was built to allow sound to progressively travel across a left, centre and right speaker configuration using constant output fades.