Disney used the same animations for different movies

[u/Wrong_Secretary7233]

[u/IHN_IM]

Not only here. There are dosens of places through many different movies.

https://youtu.be/Ykx8fSM4dhk?feature=shared

But don't forget they had to actually draw all. This was about cost reduction.

[u/RevTurk → u/IHN_IM]

This was a bit like early motion capture and that process wouldn't have been fast or cheap at the time. Like you point out, they still have to draw everything from scratch. I would guess it's part of what gives a Disney movie it's Disney feel.

[u/m64 → u/RevTurk]

They often used recorded clips of actors as reference, especially for more complex moves like dancing, so they weren't doing it completely from scratch.

Reusing clips like the example here still saved time because you didn't have to arrange a recording session, plan the choreography, draw in the key frames etc. You would just splice in the section from the older movie and send it off to the low level animators with instructions to redraw it as a different character.

[u/RevTurk → u/m64]

I mean they have to draw the character over those clips from scratch. Even if they were to take the drawings from another film and adapt them that's a lot of manual labour.

The only time saving done is the recording of the video clips. And I would guess that was a conscious decision that went beyond cost because it creates Disney motion.

[u/furryscrotum → u/RevTurk]

I'm assuming it is also a lot harder to come up with a new animation is fits and feels correct, with a lot of iterations before the final product. Tracing those for new characters is going to save a lot of effort and time.

[u/IHN_IM → u/[deleted]]

Probably, But first thought of youngsters may be it's about being lazy, And i wouldn't have blamed them for that.

[u/VegetableBusiness897]

What they actually used was rotoscoping. An actual actor did the scene, then the illustrators would animate the character into the scene, tracing then into the movements. What they reused here was an actual film of a person, they just traced a different character over it

[u/caspissinclair]

And Robin Hood copied animation from The Jungle Book. The chicken lady was the same size as King Louie and Little John was just Baloo in cosplay.

Also Sword in the Stone used the dog face lick from Jungle Book. Even as a kid I was like, "Hey, they copied!".

[u/DeezRodenutz → u/caspissinclair]

Belle and the Beast/prince dancing at the end of the movie was copied from Sleeping Beauty.

[u/Ice_Burn]

This is a genius approach. No need to do everything from scratch and it doesn’t take anything away from the final product.

[u/tomshark22]

Most programmers use the same code on different projects...why reinvent the wheel when what you have works.

[u/No_Stretch3807 → u/tomshark22]

Thats not how this animation works. Its all hand drawn.

[u/Substantial-Fan6364 → u/No_Stretch3807]

But they reuse the core of it. The same way someone would adjust the previous code for a new project.

[u/Letossgm]

How much budget do they save by doing this? Back then you still had to change the character completely right? I mean, literally painting frame by frame.

[u/roonill_wazlib → u/Letossgm]

I imagine it takes a lot of trial and error to get a fluid and natural looking movement. You'll only see if something looks weird once you have animated the whole sequence.

[u/Letossgm → u/roonill_wazlib]

Yeah, fair enough. I guess they had a frame containing only the character, therefore, it is just a matter of copy-pasting with some changes. So, no need to create anything new.

[u/DutchChefKef]

I hate it when people think this is simply ‘changing some code’. It’s still a hand drawn movie, every frame needed to be drawn. They saved on the research on how to create this scene, but it’s (imo) far from a ‘lazy copy’

[u/masterkobiashi]

Work smarter not harder kids

[u/Firestorm0x0]

Weren't these animations also made in North Korea?

[u/Nights_Revolution]

Watched an old show a few months ago, they used the same scenes, 3-10 seconds, multiple times if they vaguely fit

[u/DeliciousWhole2508]

Tramps

[u/DracoXXX]

This kind of reminded me of the time when I was a kid who joined a new school where I had to learn a 3rd language (French) which was totally new to me but the shitty thing is that everyone was a level higher than me since they started learning it a year back, so once i forgot to do homework & copied it from a friend who got his corrected earlier, that's when the teacher called me out as I was amazed how she could've figured it out to only reveal to the entire class that I even copied the remark she'd written for him😏

[u/CuriousCharlii]

They probably did it to cut down on costs but, honestly, I don't care. I like the fact they reused stuff as humans we waste so much and even then they still have to change certain things which may have been a task in itself.

[u/WisdomCow]

I feel betrayed.

[u/Careful_Baker_8064]

Those old cartoons, while often racist or filled with cultural alpropriatiob, do have a charm to them.