Major Post 6: Ub Iwerk

Posted on by LeAnn Schmitt

 

When you think of the creator of Mickey Mouse I bet your brain doesn’t jump to the name, Ub Iwerks.

Ub Iwerks was born in Kansas City Missouri and shorten his full name, Ubbe Eert Iwwerks, for ease. He was known for his fast ability to draw and his quirky sense of humor. He was Walt Disney’s partner and helped create the face of Disney itself, Mickey Mouse. He also was the lead animators in many of Disney’s early films such as the Skeleton Dance and Steam Boat Willie. But early on into the creation of the Disney empire Ub split off to start his own animation company, Iwerks Studios. This studio brought forth its own line of characters, such as, Flip the Frog and Willie Whopper. The studio didn’t last long and eventually tanked.

However, Iwerks legacy didn’t end there for he snatched up two Oscars for his work. As well as got to work on many other classics like the Looney Tunes and The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock.

LeAnn Schmitt

Below I have linked one of my personal favorite cartons produced by his studio

 

 

 

 

Project 2-WIP 1-Pre-production

Posted on by LeAnn Schmitt

             Julia and I will be working together once again and this time we feel that we want to shift the tone of our animation and make something rather scary for the paper cut out assignment. We will be leaning toward making paper dolls and trying to establish some kind of depth and perspective with the backgrounds and the puppets themselves. Currently, we are trying to decide if we should use the down shooter to capture out animator or get creative with it and see if we can rig up something ourselves.

             We have also decided that for our materials we are sticking to merely black, white, and grey paper, some pens to add detail and pegs to give the puppets some movement.

Content wise, we have settled on the monster and three shots we would like to accomplish.

We would like to have the monster be all black and have most of the terror come from twitchy uncanny character acting. Linked with this post are some rough boards of the shots we have settled on as well as a rough break down and notes of the puppet for the monster.

Julia Reymundo and LeAnn Schmitt