Don Bluth you are a legend

Valuable lesson, Don Bluth, thank you.

Don Bluth, I just want to say you're an amazing animator, I've always admired the fluent movements (including the character's expressions) and I've admired one of the best movies you've ever made! Thanks to you, I've always wanted to become into an animator as well. You're the best! :)

Mr. Bluth, thank you very much because the magic of your work. You're probably the most inspiring artist in my life, I admire you deeply

We need A LOT more people like him in entertainment and the world.

You make it look so easy!

Don Bluth...is so amazing!

He's better than any art teacher I have ever had. I really enjoy listening to him teach others how to draw and how to access their creativity :)

Don's one of the greatest animators who ever lived. Where he fell down was as a storyteller. When you get right down to it, that's what animation lovers expect along with the great visual artistry.

Don, i really have to say that I’ve admired your work my whole life. From your garage film to the full fledged movies, I know that they all have hard work and passion. I’m striving to be like you, reviving 2d animation. Your style is brilliant along with your old techniques of animation. Just thank you so much..

I like the way he animated Jenner, the character looks genuinely evil

Don Bluth is a genius!!

very insightful looking back on some of my better drawings I defiantly remember I was paying attention to what the character was feeling

2D traditional animation has more feeling that flash animation

Aww Cynthia. "The poor turkey fell dowwwn!"

Dude Don is just the best. He's a legend and he's here teaching us to draw for free.

Mr Don Bluth, I really loved the way you explain things related to drawing for animation art. Very clear, precise to the point, your pronunciation is excellent. I am Filipino, how I wish you could be our guest teacher here in Manila, Philippines. Long live! Mr Animation Legend, Don Bluth! Salute!

Don Bluth...YOU ARE MY NUMBER ONE ANIMATOR!! Way to go!!

Don Bluth was responsible for all of the best animated films when I was a child. Even today, The Secret of NIMH is my all-time favorite movie. In my opinion, more recent films simply don't compare with the stuff that he put out there. Certainly, Disney's attempt at sequels left much to be desired, as they lacked the same level of devotion that Bluth put into the originals.

Complete. Master. Of. ANIMATION. This is just plain awesome ;)

because it's harder from what i know. Both are challenging of course, but that's how it is. Similar stuff going on in the games world; 2d is old 3d is new blah blah. someone will come along soon, bring traditional back and hopefully make a killing, if they have the right ideas and spirit

@etiscool1 What I found very ironic is that the head at Disney after Home on the Range said, "No more traditional animation!" and yet when Lasseter, the head of PIXAR, got some say over Disney, he helped create "The Princess and the Frog", which was a traditional animated film. It truely shows that their is a difference between someone who takes great passion in their work and someone who just rides the wave.

Thanks dude I admire you a lot of this art of yours as your person I admire every story created by you great animations and many other things I wanted to draw you don bluth and you did it so the only thing I have to tell you is thank you so much don bluth the king of animations

The master! A true legend!!!

Don Bluth you rock the animation industry you're the best animators I have heard of in the animation industry besides my judge for creator of Beavis and Butthead

Hey Don, just so you know, I love your films, and I heard you and Gary Goldman are planning more films in the future, what will they be?

@keegster7167

7 жыл бұрын

Dragon's Lair

I've been a fan of your work for almost 35 years, hoping to see more. On a side note I'm in the process of obtaining and restoring a Dragon's Lair game, haven't decided on an '83 original disc or the 2002 repro if I can find one. Cheers!

What sort of pencil do you use? 😊🍋

On the closing comments: Yes sir, Don Bluth! YES SIR!! My gosh...I teared up watching this for some reason...Don Bluth is just an amazing person...

@Draco9898 flash can be used for traditional animation as well, and cut out certainly had its place(I don't like cut-outs either BUT you know what I mean).

I grew up on Traditional animation myself. Don, you along with Disney, Chuck Jones & Gerald Scarfe have been my heroes. It's a shame that the animation studios are going anti-hand drawn. I always find CGI animation more like cheap talent which is why I detest it being used heavily, There is no heart & soul into the characters they're all empty. I'm putting my hopes for Dragon's Lair.

Don blush you are amazing

@iSparkettei I understand what your saying the 2 should be mixed, and experimented rather then just abandoned.

I admire you,congratulations!

@iSparkettei But it has to be completely hands on from the artist mind and hand to get the touch, artist are already drawing on the computer screens with digital pens.

When will Dragon s Lair the movie come out? I ve heard it was in production

Brilliant.

ahhh don bluth, chuck jones all time favorite animators

When I was a kid me and my sister loved watching his films our favroutes both were a american tale all dogs go to heavan and land before time hers were thumbelina anastsia mine were rock a doodle doo pebble and the penguin but I realy loved titan a.e that film was awsome

What I ment by rotoscoping is I guess motion capture, where the actor has to act the motions out for the computer animater, my point is really talented artist like Miyazaki can draw Kiki flying up in the sky on her broom twisting and turning in the wind, he can do this all from his mind and feelings, a computer animator would need to put a real little girl on a fake broom, motion capture every scene and then paste over the CGI texture, this is my point

Ive heard of Rapunzel I heard Glen Keane was going to direct it but then it go shelved for awhile, I looked at some test footage of it, you can kind of tell its hand drawn, but there is so much shading and texture on Rapunzel it almost looks like it was complete CGI, for some reason even in Avatar, whether it is animation or a live actor, when the images and frames are transported digitally, the flow of the frame rate becomes almost to smooth and mechanical. This will be interesting though.

Don are great at drawings

Bob Ross got nothin' on you, Mr. B

Is there a playlist of videos like this in order? He said that he went over art rules in other videos.

I agree that 3D can't impact people in quite the same way that tradtional animation can, but it CAN impact them in it's own equally powerful way. They're two different animals that have their own magic to them, but they can both show bring characters to life. Also, I'm not quite sure you understand how 3D animated movies are made. Rotoscoping isn't really used for full CGI movies. 3D models are based off of hand drawn images and animated based off of video reference.

There are alot of saturday morning cartoons on now that are hand drawn and are combination of anime style mixed with american, the prob is the actual animation is done mostly overseas, I agree the computer can look bad when its mixed with hand drawn, but I think it should be used for adding depth in camera movements, and in backrounds which is happening alot with some anime cartoons like Bleach, one thing too also the comp. is used in the color of hand drawn animation now.

What a master

I hope he can do it, I went to school for this sort of thing and would love to work on a Bluth movie.

@d3vilcat2004 I feel that the closest I've seen a CGI animation that has come close to the feeling of 2d animated drawings (both in artstyle and in hand-drawn looking movement [ie: does not look artificial]) is with Tangled. Especially when they animated teh horse in that one, it looked very comedic/soulful - it looked like it was meticulously crafted by a human.

I so dont agree with the rules thing, but feeling is huge in drawing, the feeling and life of the human coming into drawing is what separtes hand drawn animation from computer. hope princess and frog dose well, maybe Bluth will make another film, maybe he could team up with Speilburg again,

I try to think about what I want to convey through the characters that I draw.

I hope Disney is done with that Hanna Montana-esque thing.

I couldn't agree more! I see too many animations that lack that needed essence...that emotion...that...what you said! :D

@iSparkettei Also hand drawn does not have to be so expensive right now it would be less to make then CG, way less. And it can take about the same time.

You could never animate Nausicaa flying through the air with her hair blowing in the wind with GGI, you could never duplicate the scene in Land, when Littlefoot hatches with such grace and life falling out of the egg shell. CGI could never capture the energy and characture in Nimnh when Jemerey the crow stumbles and wabbles tripping over his big long crow feet while talking to fast for his brain to keep up. I could go on and on.

Do know about Runceany

Ive seen some of these, but still what your mentioning is still more on the cartoony side, its not serious drama, with serious depictions of life like humans like Princess Mononoke, Im talking about touch here, Alot of japanese animation is still done by hand most of it, because alot of it consist of pretty shiney, glossy shaded characters with hair blowing in the wind, my point is the human hand is better for that kind of stuff than CGI

This thing will precision that diamond cutter???

I looove the stories of Don Bluth movies. Are other people to credit for these?

Yeah, Toy Story was special when it first came out, but now everything, absolutely everything out there now is CGI. I really miss the talent that has seemed to escape modern day animation. My sister often says that if the animation was like it was back in the day, she would totally do it!

I noticed some sort of award trophy on that shelf. I wonder what that was for.

Yes indeed, animation here in America is not taken seriously. I have to go to the children's section for certain books on animation in my public library. But I believe with the recent efforts of John Lasseter and James Baxter, hand drawn is indeed making a come back, and I'm excited for it. Personally, I don't like it when CGI is inserted in 2D. On rare occasions, like Iron Giant, or the Cave of Wonders tiger, it works out pretty well, but generally it looks cheap and ugly.

Hey take it easy Im an animation major, I was also excepted into Sheridan college in Toronto canada for there classical animation program, the chances of geting in at the time were like 5 percent, Im interested in animation I gave you examples of what I thought could not be duplicated and you havent given me any real examples of CGI that I think really offer the same feel and life, do you think Bluth agrees with me. Just an ex. I would love to see CGI capture the animation of Jessica rabbit

I hope Don makes another movie

There are many theories. John Lasseter says that many studios are lacking in their scripts, stories, characters and etc. Then they blame the lack of success on traditional animation, thinking that they can't compete with CGI any more. The other is that it's just cheaper. With traditional animation, you can only animate with how many sheets of paper you can buy.

@d3vilcat2004 I concur! In fact, I'm going to watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit just to see good old fashioned animation the ay it should be: Hand Drawn

@iSparkettei I don't agree at all, look at Frank Frazetta's comics or pen and ink work, look at John Buscema drawings, look at the Don drawing here, you can't get that touch.

But you know that is where Speilburg helped, sometimes creative people need someone with good buisness sense to channel that creativity into the film, the problem is sometimes they take away a good idea also. If Don and Gary had there way and Speilburg and Lucas didnt, we would have a Land Before Time with more awsome T Rex scenes, dang nabbit.

My favourite animator. Charlie's Dad Forever.

It is not possible to draw without RoC

I think that might be how YOU feel, but that's hardly how most of the audience and other animators feel. 3D can be done just as well as 2D, and has been. I prefer to animate in 2D though.

The problem with Flash is that it still can't reproduce something with true emotion. It is much too static and flat, even when combined with three dimensional imagery (which just makes it look more awkward and fake). Most flash cartoons look like animated pop up books to me.

nice

Haha, Miyazaki says the same thing about Disney movies, is that it's not serious drama. That's my point is that it's all opinion, what might be dramatic or deep to you is cheesy and predictable to someone else. Anywho, while 2D has it's own special style and feeling to it, have you heard of Rapunzel? Disney is trying to capture the feeling of hand drawn animation in 3D, which I think is neat, but I'm not so sure it will work. It'll be interesting to see how it works out.

@iSparkettei I'm just someone who wants to get serious beauty and life into art and drawings + animation, I got accepted to Sheridan, but never went, been out of the art loop for awhile, used to do portraits too. I'm the kind of artist where I don't even like it when comic artist use reference, never mind a computer, that's sort of where I am. Look at the video (Beauty and The Beast Glen Keane), this is what I mean.

@iSparkettei It just depends on someones drawing talent if you assemble talented people that can draw from the head, stuff can happen that the computer can't do, look at Miyazaki's films amazing touch, and limited funds on many of the first films. look at how little foot hatches from the egg in Land Before Time, a computer can't beat that grace and life. A computer can't make Ariel in Mermaid that soft and appealing feminine.

0:03-058: That's Cynthia Brisby U were drawing, no? have U thought of a Third NIMH Movie?

Please, make the land before time real life movie in 2021, this movie have a lots of Dinosaur is Edmontonia, Dilophosaurus, T-Rex, Brachinosaurus, Deinonychus, Plesiosaurus, Apatosaurus,... and Dilophosaurus can talk.

o_o I love you Don.

I understand that a CGI movie can create memories, Jusrassic Park is one of my favorite movies, Im not against CGI, to think if they had CGI when E.T. was made it would have been even better. But what I am saying is you cant make Nausicaa's hair blow in the wind the way a human hand can versus complete CGI, amatter a fact with CGI you would need a model any how to scan in and rotoscope, everything in CGI is taken from somthing real, where as alot of hand drawn animation is pure talent on paper.

@NotOrdinaryInGames Yeah kinda what thinktink said, I would say anger or rage.

Do you know that she sings??

Alright my point is, in Pixar they may not need the motioncapture, because there doing toys and cars comedyesq movies, What I was trying to say from the begining is you claimed you could easily pull off animating and duplicating the scene where Little Foot hatches from the egg, Nausicca flying on her glider hair blowing, and Jermey the crow, I would love to see you duplicate these scenes in CGI, I know for a fact you couldnt, if you did youd need alot of help and it would be stiff and plastic

don dont you know that you have to get More than a Feeling

Digital is A LOT cheaper and if you've ever done cel drawn animation then you would know that it is one huge pain in the ass. Also, it's easier to outsource animation that's digital which means that you will get the product back faster. Granted I don't think outsource animation is as beautiful as inhouse. Btw You forgot Tex Avery.

If your really into animation I dont know why your using the word garbage, just the fact that your using the phrase pull it off, proves my point, When Linda Miller was animating Little Foot hatching from his egg, Bluth didn't tell her hey Linda just pull it off, its the same for Miyazaki, he wasn't trying to pull off anything, he was trying to make magic. He was and is trying to create memories, from memories. Not just rotoscoped actors with blue plastic CGI pasted over them like in Avatar.

I wish the best opportunities and wishes for you

@longhuynh6111

3 жыл бұрын

I wish new movie.

A strange story with Mathhias Gutberlet

the other point and I dont mean to criticize CGI is handdrawn animation is becomeing a lost art form in the US, but not in Japan, people in America love to laugh at the movies and dont take animation seriously like they do in Japan, so in my opinion I think the two can be mixed together to produce somthing new, but ive gut a say further, even the mecha, robots and machines done by Japanese artist look better to me than if they were done in CGI, look at the plane scenes in Porco all by hand

I agree that pixar is really good dont get me wrong, but when you go to a theater and sit there and stare at the computer rendered images for over an hour in the dark, you dont feel the same attact ment as real people or hand drawn animation, I think in the first Jurrasic Park then controlled the CGI very well with the puppets, computer animation is almost to smooth in a icey cold sort of way, but I agree Pixar is the best at it, also Lasseter has said he likes hand drawn anim better thn CGI.

And all of these are only one frame to a 1 hour+ movie. I have a long way to go.

RIP

The other point too is alot of computer animated films are done for humour, there made to entertain the kids and make the adults laugh, this is sad, theres no real drama here like in Beauty and the Beast and the Little Mermaid, everything is just wise cracks slap stick, the only real serious CGI is when it is used in live action with actors, like Harry Potter. All of Pixars films are usally comedy with stand up comedians doing the voices. I would love to see Pixar make Beauty and Beast

I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU

Make a reform to kill a pie

you can alway buy richard william's "the animator's survival kit" its a good medium for animation

The second one wasn't even done with Bluth's permission.

Don says your father is killed

Большое спосибо!

Was it on purpose? This should be discussed. Lewis