Walt Disney Studios’ animated short “Get A Horse!” is nominated for an Academy Award this year. Here is an exclusive Making of Disney Get a Horse Video. Behind the scenes look at the creation of one of the film’s shots.
In order to replicate the look of the classic black and white Mickey Mouse, the studio researched shorts created between 1928 and 1946. We wanted to make it feel like you were back in 1928, We essentially had to train our artists away from perfection and do things like not register Minnie’s feet to the ground. There was also a ‘film damage’ pass added which had film lines and dirt.
The stunning reveal as the characters jump in and out of the screen going around in a circle onto a stage required meticulous co-ordination between 2D and 3D. We drew everything on paper and cleaned everything up on paper too first, On the shot running in and out of the screen in the circle, we had Adam Green our head of CG animation and Eric Goldberg our head of 2D animation work together. I think in one day they passed that shot back and forth to each other four times.
We got a rear projector to show what it would actually look like when they come on the screen and then once they pop out of the screen, to make it feel like it was an old-time movie projector. Then we did a lot of camera work with that research to make sure we could actually translate that onto the screen.
And we knew right from the beginning this would play right into stereo. When Mickey pops out of the screen onto the stage, we had to make sure that stage was just right, so that when you’re in the theater it looked right. Most movie theaters don’t have a stage, so we had to do test after test by going to different theaters to make the platform/stage look right in stereo.
The short’s throwback to Disney’s animation heritage extended not only to the final look, but also its sound. As it turned out, Walt Disney Imagineering had a library of authentic sound effects from the 20s and 30s which made it into the film. And even Walt Disney’s voice, itself, features as the voice of Mickey Mouse. It took our crew three and a half months to pull all the dialogue from 1928 to 1946, We had everything in there except for the word ‘red’. We could not find ‘red’ anywhere. So our associate editor went through and pulled a ‘arr’, ‘eh’, ‘deh’ out of Walt’s dialogue and created the word red!
In order to replicate the look of the classic black and white Mickey Mouse, the studio researched shorts created between 1928 and 1946. We wanted to make it feel like you were back in 1928, We essentially had to train our artists away from perfection and do things like not register Minnie’s feet to the ground. There was also a ‘film damage’ pass added which had film lines and dirt.
The stunning reveal as the characters jump in and out of the screen going around in a circle onto a stage required meticulous co-ordination between 2D and 3D. We drew everything on paper and cleaned everything up on paper too first, On the shot running in and out of the screen in the circle, we had Adam Green our head of CG animation and Eric Goldberg our head of 2D animation work together. I think in one day they passed that shot back and forth to each other four times.
We got a rear projector to show what it would actually look like when they come on the screen and then once they pop out of the screen, to make it feel like it was an old-time movie projector. Then we did a lot of camera work with that research to make sure we could actually translate that onto the screen.
And we knew right from the beginning this would play right into stereo. When Mickey pops out of the screen onto the stage, we had to make sure that stage was just right, so that when you’re in the theater it looked right. Most movie theaters don’t have a stage, so we had to do test after test by going to different theaters to make the platform/stage look right in stereo.
The short’s throwback to Disney’s animation heritage extended not only to the final look, but also its sound. As it turned out, Walt Disney Imagineering had a library of authentic sound effects from the 20s and 30s which made it into the film. And even Walt Disney’s voice, itself, features as the voice of Mickey Mouse. It took our crew three and a half months to pull all the dialogue from 1928 to 1946, We had everything in there except for the word ‘red’. We could not find ‘red’ anywhere. So our associate editor went through and pulled a ‘arr’, ‘eh’, ‘deh’ out of Walt’s dialogue and created the word red!
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