Glen Keane Animation

Watching animation as a kid, made me always wonder how environments and characters could exist on the television. The idea of bunch of drawings, about twenty a second, was even more unbelievable than what was animated. One animator I admired was Glen Keane and his team of animators. Glen Keane didn't only have such amazing character designs but realistic human actions and emotions conveyed through his animations. His animation very realistic also had exaggerations such as Beast's size or Belle's innocence in the "Beauty and the Beast". The Disney animators create a illusion similar to comics in that a bunch of pictures make a story. But the difference in animation is that there is sound rather than words to read. In animation much of the imagination is up to the film makers to decide rather in comics things can be interpreted by the reader.
        Making different animators look like one work as a whole is a challenge. The style of Disney is being very fairytale like and flowing. Disney also has a bunch of cutesy characters that make the animation more children appealing. The film “Beauty and the Beast” is an example of Keane’s balance between realism and fairytale. Every mythical character, from Beast to his minion objects, expresses human behavior and emotion. Beast thinking or a teapot dancing gives the audience a link for them to relate to and become involved with the story. Though Glen Keane is the lead animator doesn’t mean he can do it alone. He can design the emotion and the key moments but the stuff in between takes other animators to make it all flow into one film. As I’m older now I can understand that a animation, though a lot of work, isn’t the most hardest work that can be done if there is preparation and design of what’s to be made. Though traditional animation is being replaced by digital, the passion to hand make a animation from pencil and paper continues to inspire me.