How To Animate Fast Movements

disney may be a major studio, but it startedsmall, which meant its animators had to bring people, animals, and magical creatures tolife better than any one. when they did just that - and didn't have the budget to bankrollmillion-dollar movies - the animators decided not to start from scratch. instead, they tracedover animation that had already been released. and if you think it's just a case of copyinga handful of frames, we've got a surprise

How To Animate Fast Movements, for you! here are screen rant's 5 recycledmovie scenes in disney films. robin hood nobody throws a party like robin and his merrymen, and a good party means plenty of dancing. over the years, disney's animators had deliveredmore than a few musical sequences in a ton

of films, and decided to make robin hood intosomething of a highlight reel. maid marian gets her moves from snow white over threedecades earlier, with a few dashes of duchess from the aristocats just to be safe. ladykluck and little john do their best impression of baloo and king louie from the jungle book,showing that dance moves don't always change with the times. the jungle book it's no secret that animators tend to lookat their own pets when designing animals or magical beasts, but man's best friend takesthe cake in disney films. that means the animators knew they could use puppies from 101 dalmatiansas the basis for their wolf pups in the jungle

book. but even more time was spent turningarthur's slobbering dogs from the sword in the stone into mowgli's grown-up brothersand sisters. since dogs aren't exactly skilled at hiding their feelings, we can probablylet this one slide. the sword in the stone some movies can take bits of animation hereor there, but where do you draw the line between saving time, and just skipping work? disneycouldn't always decide, if the sword in the stone is anything to go by. when the movie'sclimax called for an epic jousting match, the animators decided to check the archivesfor footage to fit. they found it in the disney classic "the truth about mother goose." andby found it, we mean copied it completely,

shot for shot. the many adventures of winnie the pooh when disney decided to lump together smallerfeaturettes starring winnie the pooh into one theatrical release, they ran into a bitof a problem: the collection, released as the many adventures of winnie the pooh, didn'thave an ending. but with some fast-thinking, and even faster hands, they came up with asolution. the answer was to craft a new ending starring winnie and his owner, christopherrobin. the pair's farewell loses some of its magic when you realize it's a direct tracingof an entire sequence from the jungle book. apparently, a love of bears wasn't all thatmowgli and christopher robin had in common.

beauty & the beast it was the evil witch maleficent who madesure that sleeping beauty's 16th birthday wouldn't be a happy one, sending her (andthe entire kingdom with her) into a deep sleep. it all worked out in the end, when princephillip woke her with true love's kiss, and the pair announced their love with a danceso perfect, it sent them into the clouds. there's no way to top a dance like that, sowhen animators had to match it with beauty & the beast thirty years later, they didn'teven try. they simply traced beauty and the now-human beast over the couple, and assumedfans wouldn't mind seeing a true love's waltz all over again.

those are the bits of recycled disney footagethat caught our eye, but what other scenes or characters have always stuck out to you?be sure to name them in the comments, and click on subscribe for more great videos likethis one!