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Ken Duncan

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Always open to creative endeavors! Owner of Duncan Animation Studio. Pasadena, Ca Photography is a hobby.. kenduncan.darkroom.com instagram - kenduncan9

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 13d

Close..
377' x 16 frames= 6,032 frames.
Film is literally 16 frames per 12 inches when measured.
Some images are held for 2 frames, some for 1 frame. The number of total drawings then, about 4,200. Roughs first, final roughs, and redrawn completely hey the Clean-up drawings. 10,500 pieces of paper?

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Aug 22

Uh, I'm pretty sure this is all real.

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Tiger Sparks @misstigersparks.bsky.social · Jun 28

“I... I used to make long speeches to you after you left. I used to talk to you all the time, even though I was alone.”

Paris, Texas (1984) director Wim Wenders

…Beautiful Super 8 sequence…📽️

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Apr 27

Young people be like; "That's B&W, I'm not gonna watch that".🥹

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Apr 27

It seems to be,
"Don't be a Sucker"

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Apr 27

Errr, not the people commenting on this post.
And not "all".

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Jan 31

Agreed

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Jan 7

Americans can't admit it, but Putin is the real leader. He's drooling as he watches this directive become reality. 🤤

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 30

It seems magical

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 29

A Desk's Journey....

Here a little story about my old Disney animation desk. Someone recently contacted me about it.
(I signed the underside of the tabletop)...

#disneyanimation #kdunc9
#animationdesk

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 26

Animating Jane during "Tarzan".

#animator #disneyanimation #tarzanjane #canadian #lefthanded

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 24

Assistants basically rough inbetweened shots. Or sections of some shots. So it would be difficult to quantify a quota. The records would show what they worked on....

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 24

Nice guy.

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 24

Yes, he was an assistant in the film.

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 24

There were around 40 animators on the film.

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 24

"Hercules Footage Report".

The final weekly report.
We used "footage" to asses the work total.
(1 foot = 16 frames of 35mm film). The goal was to average 5' a week (16x5 =80 frames).
My own animation total was 4 minutes of the film.
Along with supervising others, and attending countless meetings.

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 24

Yes, the directors felt it slowed the chase to a "stop"....

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 24

Yes, thank you.
The directors felt that it slowed down the chase sequence too much. Once they decided to truncate the shot I gave it to another animator to change it. I disliked re-doing animation...🧐

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 24

I'd been finishing up the animation of Meg, when I was asked by the Tarzan directors to be Supervising Animator of "Jane".
The film was already in production so I started later the other animators.
Some of Tarzan was already rough animated, such as this one; this is one of my early Jane tests.

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 24

No I've not seen her before...

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 24

Garbage with feet

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 23

Additional Belle scenes that I animated; the Library sequence....some in color, some as pencil tests.

The Beast was beautifully animated by Tony DeRosa.

(clip via Giuseppe di Maio)

#beautyandbeast #belle #disneyanimation #penciltest #2danimation

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 23

Mm, I'm not sure who did most of the Gaston scenes..
It's a good one though.

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 22

Yes, when supervising a character i usually didn't want to animate any others in the scenes, feeling that I didn't have a full understanding of the other characters. I wanted to focus on creating a strong performance throughout the film, with my team..and to animate as much of the character myself.🤓

Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · Dec 22

Acting is generally one character reacting to another. So we decide on who is leading the action in a shot.
i.e. When he grabs the book, she reacts. So we did a sketch of Belle's location when he grabs book, then Andreas roughed out Gaston. I roughed Belle.
Upon Director approval we finished shot.