Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed: Feb. 13, 1957)
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Walt Disney explains his invention. Probably the most advanced tool ever made in the field of animation. (At least until the computer was made.)
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As a kid, I never realized how amazing these movies where from an art standpoint but wow. Just amazing.
Shit so real, it blew Mickey's mind.
I came to the same conclusion, just now.
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Disney really set the standard for great animation... I take it for granted that I"m able to do this all digitally now, but it's so awesome to see how they were able to pull off this sort of thing back then. It's like steampunk After Effects!
difference between Disney's real animation and your digital recreations? Your's sucks and there's didn't. I don't care if you're Michelangelo, real vs phoney, real will always win.
residentgiant right!
mopenstein thats a way of thinking that limits innovation. They used technology to achieve this effect. A digital computer, is very clearly a piece of technology. You cannot decide which art is real or not.
My eyeballs send signals to my brain that let me know what looks great and what looks terrible. Things that are real will always be better than imaginary 1's and 0's.
mopenstein This video. Is formatted using technology. Full of 1's and 0's. Merely a projection of what seems real. Your argument becomes invalid because of this.
There is no such thing as an imaginary 1 and 0. They are all very real data that can be used to assemble readable information. If you dare say that 1's and 0's are but imaginary, we can also say the DNA's (the stuff that creates us) T, A, C, and G are imaginary.
It is fair to say that you are just biased or prefer the traditional style of media. You musn't create illogical arguments that try to twist words and meaning to fit your opinions.
Walt was well ahead of his time! Always on the cutting edge. I had no idea this was how they were able to pull off those shots.
Except that he copied Lotte Reiniger design and gave no credit for it. There's no such thing as a honest successfull business man.
@@GabrielMarques001 I believe Reiniger only created an early version of the multiplane camera, Ub Iwerks Invented the definite version. That's just what I think.
This goes to show you what a genius Walt Disney was back in his time. He created 3-dimensional cartoons before computers did!
What are you even talking about? He didn't invent the multiplane camera, he wasn't even close to the first to use it in animation.
He was a businessman, this is like giving the CEO credit for what a team of engineers accomplished.
Yeah. Fantasia is especially impressive in the visual department. All that gorgeous synchronized imagery is amazing. It is made all the more impressive that all of that was done way before CG. Wow! The only problem is that the dinosaurs look weird. However I can accept that as being a product of the time. The dinosaur part is still really cool in showing natural history, and it comes with awesome music. It is my favorite part of the whole movie. Man all those cartoon dinosaurs are so awesome. Maybe that is a precursor to Land Before Time. Land Before Time is awesome too. It is my favorite animated movie that isn't Disney.
exactly. he did not invented shiot. he gets the credit, yet he did nothing and brought nothing to the table @@mingusmofaz5898
@cesarjimenezanimator Hey, it's interesting to find you here. If you remember making this comment 9 years ago.
Well, I might have seen this video before, but I never commented.
@@SuperCartoonist Heya! How're ya doing?
That's even better than 3D :D
PeopleCanFly23 both technics are amazing
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very different stuff mate
It angers me that that kind of comment would get so many upvotes. No. This is not better than *good* computer generated graphics.
It's an opinion, if he finds it better then 3D, thats his opinion. Tbh, i like the look of that background of Bambi more then some recent Disney movies. I prefer anime over 'proper' 3D animated characters.
3D might be more realistic if done properly, but that does NOT make it better.
Looking at games: Pubg is more realistic then Fortnite. Dota is more 'realistic' the LoL (turning etc). But still its LoL that is the most played Moba and Fortnite the most played battle royale game. So generally people find those better games even though its less realistic.
This is the birthplace of movie technology and the start of everything we've got today... It's genuinly fascinating how much detail was put into these movies back then
Oh man, sometimes I just wish cartoons were still made this way. So beautiful.
nez pheew 6 years ago sience you made this comment. Time really flies!
@@viggoaleskog 8 fucking YEARS
@@viggoaleskog In that time some kid would born and grow up
WOW
@@theowlhouseseason3213 yee dogg
@@viggoaleskog Will just accept it as something meaningful cuz i didnt understand how wolf-like canids related to our rave but ok
Walt Disney films back in late 30's & 40's were living paintings.
deltafour1212 they truly were
until the little mermaid ... last cartoon fully hand drawn....
When the forest started to move that blew my mined. Pretty cool.
zack hulet mind*****
zack hulet mine*
@@JorgetePanete nice joke
I wish Disney still made handdrawn animations. I do like some of the 3D animation, but it doesn't give me that classic Disney feeling at all.
spacebug30 definitely. Disney should just be Disney, and leave the 3D to Pixar.
You know how much time and money that would take? That's one of the reasons they moved to digital.
Drew R Disney is supposed to be about the love for 2D animation, that’s the reason Walt created the company. Too bad the current animators are too lazy and just want money
Drew R they ment they could it digitally but still the same style PLUS 3D IS REALLY LONG TO MAKE SO GET UR FACTS STRAIGHT
@@dr6770 that company could buy an entire country with how much money they have, yet a 2D movie would be a great concern?
6:00 I was moving it the wrong way, Dick!
I'm tak'n it back 'naw
You don't have to be such a Dick over it!
Nineveh how's that
Richard MacLean 😂😂😂
His name is Richard like you
WTF Allen. Get it together.
He was moving it the wrong way...
KnowFuture Jay NO SECOND CHANCES!
Don’t be a dick
Allen: "How about cutting me some f*cking slack?! My wife left me, my kids hate me, and I'm an alcoholic. There! Are you happy now?!"
Sorry, dick
"What's wrong down there, Allan?"
"Dick, I know Walt asked us to do this, but I just realized I can't act."
"That's fine, neither can I."
This. This is the Disney that I admire. Combining engineering and creative vision to bring art to a new level.
Not the soul-less, cash-grabbing, franchise killing corporation it's become.
Well I have some news for you, walt disney was as bad to worse that what we have now
Disney as a Company was back then for sure more inspiring and creative. But let's not kid each other, Walt himself was always a Corporate big guy capitalist. As much as I admire him...
@@gregorsamsa2271He at least cared then. It’s no where near what we have now.
@@julienlinconnuWalt also lived in a different time and society from us. We cannot judge people from the past with the views we have today, otherwise everyone is bad. Walt did some truly inspiring stuff, yet he may have done some bad stuff. What matters to me is that he cared about the work he was doing and who he was doing it for.
@@gregorsamsa2271 Walt also was a racist anti-semite
At the end when the planes of the forest start moving in animation, the leap into perceived depth is almost shocking. (The familiar Bambi music doesn't hurt :-)
Bambi's Opening Sequence Forest
Btw, when Micky is about to go under a branch, you can see 1 frame of another mickey in the distance.
Good Gordon I know u commented this a year ago and probably don't remember making it I thought I would answer it. This was probably originally from a VHS tape and that is probably a glitch in the film.
luthien hearter 2 years*
its probably a mistake during the filming process
Maybe it’s an advance form of watermark?
Zero Cool yes it does.
Seriously, the amount of work put into making an animated film before computers is astounding. Very impressive.
If Disney were still here, I would thank him for giving me such a beautiful childhood.
I find it amazing the lengths people went to, pre-digital, to entertain and make art. This whole room sized machine just to make parralax backgrounds in a film, painting each frame individually because that was the only way to do it. It's a reminder of how powerful the human need to create beauty is.
05:53 Jesus, Alan, get your shit together! YOU HAD ONE JOB!
1:49 Somebody fucks up Mickey for a frame.
That's EXACTLY what I wanted to say...
The first rule of Fight Club is: You do NOT talk about Fight Club.
esotericVideos Don't worry he got fired.
esotericVideos around early 1:51,he was at two places at the same time
guess i'm gonna go watch bambi again
serialoverflow just saw this in 2019 and same.
callmechia just saw this in 2020 and same
@5:55 - Get it together Alan!
Jem Page Yeah but his boss doesn't need to be such a dick
DavidtheWavid this is gold cause his name is dick.
"in oil and on glass" no wonder they abandoned this method. is so expensive. now with a 200 dollar net-book one can make the same quality animation with a little time of course.
Just like how they can use cheap plastics to make products the “same quality” as what our grandparents had
ok, where all these “same quality” animations made in netbooks at? Absolutely ridiculous comment
I wish he would have explained how that system was able to keep all planes in focus. They must have been using a tremendous amount of light to illuminate the plates and a lens of exceptional depth-o-field to keep it all sharp.
Keep in mind that they're shooting frame by frame, so they were able to perform much longer exposures than if they were shooting live action. From this video, it looks like they took about a 3 second exposure, which certainly means stopping down is possible.
Can you imagine how much each of those paintings or illustrations would be worth?
yes
maybe
100k each some more than others. Your soul goes to the illuminati and the nazi organization from walt disney himself.
You can find frequently auctions with frames on eBay
Ralph Bakshi's cels from Lord of the Rings are selling for $200-300 each. Saw a touring exhibit of someone's personal collection. It had a computer used to animate Tron, an original book of Fantasia music, and a single cel of Donald Duck. Apparently those were all worth about the same. Not sure how much but it's gotta be a lot.
Oil on glass, what a romantic medium for such a beautiful film! I wonder what these animators are doing now.
Probably dead...
Some say... Allan is still moving things the wrong way.
They dead
Likely dead
Lying in the ground in peace
6:00 Alan Oscar winning performance brother 😂
this is magical
Elyssae always magic when Walt Disney is involved to explain it :)
Animation is magical
escalatedquickly420 Especially with Walt.
I like that at about 1:50 you can see where a frame was accidentally added of Mickey In the back. if you just blink you'd miss it. shows how short each Frame really is and how much time it takes to even just make a few seconds of animation :)
This is so freaking beautiful.
True effort is put into this. All hand drawn, inked, and meticulously moved.
This is SO impressive. They took what they had and went BEYOND with it!
Man, this is so cool. I remember a few years ago seeing a clip of the opening to Bambi, and seeing the layers like this almost looked like a photograph. Combined with the music, it was so beautiful that it almost brought me to tears. Wish we could have more animation like this now.
5:54 "Everything is ok except the bottom level. What's wrong down there Allen?"
"I was moving it the wrong way Dick, I'm taking it back now...how's that?"
LMAO at the Disney level voice acting
This is outright incredible. Amazing how the king of animation/cartoons explains his masterpieces and how they're made.
Rest in peace Disney. ♥🐭
Walt's mind would be absolutely blown if he saw today's 3d movies.
That said, I still think that something was lost during the transition from 2d to 3d.
That thing being . . . nostalgia
ALRIGHT WE GET IT! 2D Is great. But 3D/CGI Animation still takes a lot of time to do too. And some stuff Are still done in 2D Too. Like Storyboards and Character Design
@@Jamie-tx7pnnah, they felt real - not cheap and slapped together.
I well remember looking over one of these multiplane cameras (I believe they called them 'cranes') back in the mid 80s, when Disney was on Hyperion. I've spent a fair bit of time on Oxberry downs hooters, but the Disney crane was enormous. It seemed to need quite a crew, with the camera operator up top and others who changed and moved cels and background art below. As I recall a global zoom required the camera operator to manually pull focus. I was told the unit I saw had been originally built for Snow White in 1937. I guess Ub Ikerks was the engineering genius behind these as well as the anceint, hand-made optical department in the same building (lots of Bell 2709s mounted to lathe beds, maybe only one Acme or so).
Long gone from production now, I hope all these fabulous historic animation and VFX artifacts are being properly conserved somewhere so everyone can see how much skill and effort it took to make classic animation.
They are! I believe I saw that Snow White multiplane when I went to the Norman Rockwell Museum for a limited exhibition. A shame we couldn't take pictures.
5:04 THEY'RE GETTING FINGERPRINTS ON THE GLASS!
Roy Unit they seem to be at the edges that wouldn't be visible on the camera
Imagine a spider walking on it and accidently got filmed. Now that would look scary as hell :D
@@bonbonpony I'm sure they'd notice and wait for it to pass. Or you'd miss it while watching the movie anyway.
@@saintfisuto1072 I've seen an anime with an ugly hair being visible on the screen throughout multiple scenes and multiple episodes ("Chargeman Ken"), so stuff like that happens sometimes, especially if animators don't care ;)
Now this shit is rad
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This is the most important video I’ve ever seen in my life
It just amazes me how Disney back in the day was a brilliant engineering company. They even built a people mover for the Houston airport.
I really miss traditional animation. the effort that goes into it makes it more beautiful knowing that every brushstroke was placed there individually and carefully by an artist.
The multiplane camera doesn't merely allow for independent movement of different layers, but it also introduces something the human eye actually sees in the real world, *focus* .
The human eye only sees a sharp clear image for things that are at a particular distance we focus on. Anything too far or close from a distance we are currently focused on is blurry to the human eye. When the camera focuses on a specific layer (like the Old Mill in the first short the camera was used in), the spider web in front blurs as we move its layer closer to the camera, just like a person moving forward and staying focused on the mill would begin to lose focus on the web.
Just fantastic!! I noticed this effect when watching as a kid, and imagined it was something like this. But the fact Disney went not just to those lengths but lengths to SHOW US IN THIS FILM HERE is just astonishing.
Watching Silly Symphonies on Disney+ in HD. They look amazing! I had to see how they were made.
I love that *Walt Disney* had the imagination, money and talented staff to pull this off... I’ve been behind the scenes of some parts of Disney World and the level of tech is just *_amazeballs !!_*
If you see carefully there's so much labor goes into making one frame both artistically and technically. Technique used here of shooting multiple moving frames may seem too much labourous. However, it is their sheer determination of making something happen despite the obstacles and labour. Important lesson for all of us is we can achieve anything with determination and perseverance.
This makes the technology seem really advanced in a way. Awesome!
Amazing how far we have come that we can now press a button to add new layers and frames on a whim. And the undo feature is a real game changer. Not to mention the amount of paper, celluloid sheets, pencils, ink, paint, and film we are saving.
An amazing work of not only art. But engineering as well.
I can watch this whole day.
If I worked at Disney, I would do that all day.
Good Gordon
Me too but I do not want them to attack me if I made one character/ background wrong ovo
24 Pictures per second and all exposures and film developments must be spot on. All those painted glass panels and how much time that must have took too. Now we can do thins in minutes with digital software.
This is called revolution!
This is 80+ year old technology...and it fascinates me more than the newer stuff! :D
6:41 Bambi's Opening Sequence works example to the magic of the MultiPlane Camera
I wish Disney would start making just a few of their movies this way again, even if only for nostalgia's sake.
or shorts at least.
I feel like watching all animated features all over again.
Words cannot describe how beautiful this technology is.
i've always loved this, they have a demonstration at hollywood studios in the one man's dream exhibit, it's lovely.
Wait is that, no way! It’s felicitea!!!
"What's wrong down there Allen?"
"I was moving it the wrong way, dick..."
"I'm taking it back now."
"How's that?"
Just pretend "Allen" is a sarcastic fellow and you'll thank me.
wow.. the thirst of making such animation......extraordinary love and passion is the source
"Regular Show" gets major points in my book because it's one of the very few cartoons on TV these days that actually has detailed backgrounds that have some texture to them. The trend for the past decade or so seems to be toward backgrounds being very flat and bland.
Marbles471 pheew 6 years ago sience you made this comment. Time really flies!
Yeaaaah man. If you didn't comment i wouldn't have even noticed how old this is!
The thing that is mind-numbing to me is it is even easier now than ever to make procedural backgrounds for flat surfaces to give them either subtle or very noticeable geometry, like brick patterns, random rain damage, wood grains and so on.
Why the hell do more people not use this? It's trivial to do. It's a handful of clicks and entering numbers and you now have a detailed background over a flat color. If you want to go further, you can layer some shadow layers or light sources on top to give a more 3D look if you want that too.
Flat is just so boring.
I’m so happy that he made these videos about their animation process. ❤
Nice seeing Howard Stark.....I MEAN Walt Disney
Dark Beyond 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂
The music at the end is hauntingly beautiful
yes, i feel that too emotional , Since 8 months i have been searching for that chorus , could you please tell what is the name of that " PIECE OF MUSIC " or where can i find similar kind of. Thank You.
I'm with you! Walt Disney was a genius, a Legend in his own time! He changed the way cartoons & animated film are made. If he didn't invent the MultiPlane Camera you wouldn't have Snow white or Bambie or Dumbo or any of those animated films we loved & still love to this day. So in a way we kind of owe Walt Disney big time for this.
or Japanese animation, before computers they use the same technique too.
The wooden desk next to the camera is sweet! Its the remaining article from an older world as the new tech slowly begins to eclipse everything.
Amazing is the right word to express our feelings.
Not only the technique was amazing but the presentation style was also amazing back in 1957
Wow, amazing piece of tech.
THIS IS HOW OUR ALL TIME FAVORITE CARTOONS WERE MADE. 😢😢😢 now I appreciated it more than ever. The efforts of frame by frame movements. 😢 Awesome.
Gene Borghi taught me on Lee Richardson cartoon cameras. He shot multiplane on Fantasia in !939 before shooting photo-recon in a B-25 bomber over Italy.
+Harry Kemball Lucky you. Must have great memories of that.
Walt Disney and his team were AMAZING!
It's really a shame that almost all animation is done by computers now. And seeing that Disney basically mastered n created incredible animation it's sad to see them throw traditional animation to the curb. As an artist for Disney myself I still try n keep animation alive in some of my art pieces it saddens me to see it go away. Sadly for so many companies its all come to making tons of money and that the true meaning of animation art is lost. Disney would be saddened I think.
KevinGrahamArt well, you know what they say. As time goes by, things change or something like that. But it would be nice to see them use these techniques again. I don't really mind their newer ways of animation.
Hand drawn animations can be done on computer with the same quality as a multiplane camera only without the extreme cost of glass and oil
The thing is not that it's not possible to do on modern computers, but that it's not worth for animation studios.
Why bother making drawn animations when you can do some 3D Animations and people watch it anyways ?
The target market doesn't even seem to care so why don't stick with cheap 3D Animations.
Sure they're not as charming, but when it comes to a business, it makes sense.
Obviously, I dislike cheap 3D animations too, but I can see why they're being used so often and that's why I can accept it.
We can't really blame anyone here. But yeah, it's sad.
(I'm not saying that 3D art is bad, I'm going to study 3D Animation and Game Design next summer, but I also know that it's way easier and therefore cheaper than drawn animations)
JustCommentingYourComments 3D animations are not cheap at all, and they aren't easy to make either. The people who work with 3D are also artists. As much as I enjoy 2D animation more than 3D, it's still too far of a stretch to discredit 3D anination like that.
I think Disney would be happy with the innovation and progress.
US and A never ceases to amuse me. Home of research, development and innovation. I wish I could move there sometime.
The main thing that annoys be about this technique is that you are always able to tell what will be moving in the scene. So more instances, you might now what’s going to be knocked over before it happens
Multiplane camera effect is absolutely beautiful.
As great as this video is, you can tell that those guys are photographers, not actors.
I disagree, Allan does one great impression of a robot.
H O W S T H A T
The actors are the animators who draw each charactor.
the voice actors are the actors... everyone behind the animation are ARTIST
I was always curious bout how were cartoons made in those times.its just wow!
Get with it ALAN!!!
Amazing!!I loved the way they used to shoot scenes of animated movies through the multiplane camera making flat images look as if those had depth
maannn walt disney is a freacking genius
Except that he didn't invent the multiplane camera. Research the German film maker Lotte Reiniger, who invented the multiplane camera a decade before Disney claimed to. Oh, and she also created the first full colour cel animation.
@@landscapedetective4064 The Adventures of Prince Achmed is the first color tinting silhouette animated film and the oldest surviving animated feature film, but not cel, cel is traditional animation (or hand-drawn cartoons). Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first full-length cel animated feature film released in Technicolor.
And is true that Disney was not the first to invent a multiplane camera, this was Lotte Reiniger, but Disney created his own version independently and further refined it, giving it a more sophisticated use like never seen before. For me, both are capitals figures in the History of animation, along with other great names like Max Fleischer, Ub Iwerks, Winsor McCay, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Oscar Fischinger, Quirino Cristiani, Osamu Tezuka or Hayao Miyazaki.
I honestly loved this I’ve always wanted to really understand how this type of animation worked
Animation mistake at 1:48
Alec Wilson It's bound to happen, the cameras were old (50s, they glitched a lot), and human error. Either way, I feel it turned out REALLY well.
it had nothing to do with the camera mate. its because the guy shooting the frames obviously at one point put the wrong frame under the camera.
Alec Wilson I also mentioned human error.
Yes, something was shot out of order. Good eye, Alec. AND this little bit of Mickey animation was done just for the TV show. Lower budget and not the same crew that was making features. And the general public had no way to stop frame stuff in the '50s.
+Alec Wilson Nothing wrong. Just a Fight Club reference.
wow. I have a renewed respect for Walt Disney. truly innovators in their field
Surprised that the men handling the planes weren't wearing gloves.
This was not the actual shoot, rather a staged reenactment for documental purposes...
It would be amazing if Disney would take the old glass paintings and shoot some of the films again digitaly at 4k resolution
Some of them were probably sold to collectors
What did we do to deserve this man
It’s amazing how we have this same technology that was as tall as a room back then on a computer smaller than any one of these animators could ever imagine. True innovation!
Animators now a days don't know how easy we got it.
This camera was a marvel back then, but now with modern technology it's become completely obsolete
This actually makes me emotional idk why tho
This is the Disney brevet but the multiplane was already used before Disney
both this video and cartoon indeed never gets old 😲😍
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing.
Tick mark
So, much work has been put into this
woah!! they acctually had to draw every single frame! :O
They still do
they don't now most movements are cg
icecream hero
They don't now. Most frames are just done by having those animations filled up by Adobe Animator or something.
ですLoli Hunter
Or more complicated animations like Lou, has actual skeletons for the characters which can be moved in a natural way
Thank you for the upload. I just read about the Multiplane but I couldn't picture it nor understand the moon thing/example. 😕
This is fantastic.
I like the music at 4:09 -- it make it seem like they're revealing the eighth wonder of the world :)
Sherm Cohen pheew 6 years ago sience you made this comment. Time really flies!
Bambi - "Love is a Song"
@@viggoaleskog Bambi - "Love is a Song"
@@anildutt992 Do you know the music playing at 5:15?
@@Letter_J the song name is "Love is a Song" from Bambi Movie . You are welcome.
I remember rewatching Bambi when I was older and just being blown away by that opening shot