Not So Black And White

A blog for the 101 Dalmatian Street Fanfiction, and AU, Not So Black And White

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[notsoblackandwhite101]

[azrielplum]

Deepack and sugar sprinkles having a sweet time.

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[sophsun1]

Lady and the Tramp (1955) dir. C. Geronimi, W. Jackson & H. Luske

[brandonlees]

THE ARISTOCATS 1970, dir. Wolfgang Reitherman

[jay-i-guess]

Idk why I like drawing them so much but Okay😌

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[dasturdlydangerousduck]

"Fifteen!! We have fifteen puppies!! Goodness, gracious! It's a miracle!!"

Happy 60th anniversary to 101 Dalmatians!!

[crnart-1912]

Dizzy and Dee Dee as Mer-pups!

🧜🏼🐶

[mabeltanaka]

101 Dalmatians (1961)

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Dylan and Dawkins were initially chuffed at their joint project, Robo Dylan was to take over the chores of the household. Being unfairly compared to his own digital double, Dylan began to resent his creation, that was unit it calculated it gets more done while the source of its workload is asleep...

"it's nap time!... Indefinitely!"

[mandrawsdog]

i got my goddamn pups with me

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[timl33]

[flyingfrogillustration]

Singing Spots

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I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

[thefloatingstone]

[themadcryentist]

I showed my friend 101 Dalmatian Street and every time one of the British pups spoke he said "they sounds like a sad victorian child". 😭