![]() ![]() The main character is Jumbo Jr., a semi-anthropomorphic elephant who is cruelly nicknamed Dumbo. The fourth film in the Disney animated features canon, Dumbo is based upon a child's book of the same name by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Perl. Wikipedia notes: Dumbo is a 1941 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and first released on Octoby RKO Radio Pictures. Light browning with some margin wear in unrelated areas, otherwise good. This issue has news of the day throughout with other interesting ads. ![]() Nice edition for any Walt Disney collector. With movies at that time usually released 1st in New York City, this could very well be the very 1st advertisement for this movie classic in any newspaper. This 46 page newspaper has a 12 x 6 inch advertisement on page 17 for the opening night showing of the famous Walt Disney animated cartoon movie 'Dumbo' We could actually pull back a bit and do a lot less and get a better result,” Stammers details, adding, “That was a really interesting moment of realization, how well we could convey emotions with less movement.” The simplicity that made an animated Dumbo so special nearly 80 years ago endures in the elephant’s modern-day counterpart.THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, October 23, 1941 “We went through that process of doing a lot to the animation, almost to the point where we were doing too much. Ultimately, however, they moved away from overly expressive eyebrow and mouth movements in favor of subtle body language, matching some poses to iconic shots from the animated classic, such as tender moments between Dumbo and his mother. According to Stammers, it was also key to show the amount of effort Dumbo had to make to lift his hefty body off the ground.ĭuring their lengthy development process, the VFX team built an animation rig with the scope to encompass a range of facial expressions. To create Dumbo’s more fantastical mid-air maneuvers, Stammers and the team studied butterflies and manta rays for wing dynamics and movements more evocative of the elephant’s fluttering ears. “There’s a matter of suspension of disbelief in getting a 90-kilo elephant off the ground,” Stammers acknowledges. “Elephants have this incredibly loose and wrinkly skin that movies in a specific way, and the way that we traditionally approach that just wasn’t going to be good enough for what we needed to do for this movie,” Stammers says.Īnd while the VFX team’s technical innovations were driven by careful observance of real-life elephants, they had to think outside of the box when it came to sending Dumbo airborne. Using the technology developed for The Jungle Book-but taking it further-the team devised a new way to render and create skin for Dumbo, Mrs. “It was very important to be able to read emotions through his eyes, and that was something that was really important in the original cartoon,” says Stammers.Īs they embarked upon creating a pachyderm protagonist for the same studio that immersed audiences in 2016’s new high-tech version of The Jungle Book, Stammers’ U.K.-based team visited local zoos where they filmed elephants from multiple angles to provide a vast library of reference footage that included subtle motions, “like the way the trunk moves or the tail swishes, or the way the weight gets transferred from one leg to the other just when they’re standing still,” Stammers explains. Dumbo’s big ears necessitate a large head… his sizeable head necessitates eyes of similar proportion… and, for a character that does not speak, those deep blue eyes become a primary means of expression. Stammers notes that Dumbo’s “oversized, babylike head his big blue eyes short stubby legs and cute little body” are some of his more memorable physical traits in the original film, but he’s also quick to point out that these distinctive characteristics are practical, as well as endearing. The team, led by visual effects supervisor Richard Stammers, set out to strike a balance between the character fans remember and a realistic, live-action animal that behaves as a real elephant would. Dumbo takes flight again in Disney’s new live-action adventure, opening today, brought to life on screen by visual effects experts who pay tribute to Dumbo’s hand-drawn history while using the latest technology to evolve the character for a new generation of fans. For nearly eight decades, audiences have been charmed by the baby elephant with oversized ears and expressive blue eyes who made his big-screen debut in the 1941 animated classic, Dumbo, just the fourth release from The Walt Disney Studios. ![]()
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