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.

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)

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Belle Animation

The 2nd film I'd worked on after arriving at Disney.
I mainly animated some of Belle in the film, including these scenes with Gaston.
Animators:
Belle- Ken D.
Gaston- Andreas Deja
LeFou-Chris Wahl
Bimbettes- Dave Burgess

#beautyandbeast #belle #disneyanimation #bellegaston

Meg's kiss;

My animation of the kiss; it seemed appropriate that Meg took charge here.
Hercules animation: Andrea's Deja

(Thanks for Jake Lee Animation's post)
#herculesmeg #penciltest #2danimation #kiss #disneyanimation

Aladdin:
During the "Friends Like Me" song, I animate these belly dancers who appear from flames and run over to Aladdin.
The producer, who took belly dance classes, advised that placing one foot forward on a toe will allow the hip/pivot action.
#bellydance #penciltest #2Danimation #aladdin

Although I wasn't the supervisor of Jafar, I was part of the animation team, during "Aladdin".
This is one of the scenes I animated. He was calm in the shots prior to this one (speaking to king) and then he builds into this anger...

#jafar #disneyhercules #2danimation #kdunc9
#penciltest

Scroop test:
Treasure Planet's ship was CG. I thought it'd be cool to have camera motion for his scenes. I animated his lower body in CG set and his upper body performance on paper.
Unfortunately the film didn't have many camera moves to need this approach.
Voice: Brad Dourif.

#scroop #penciltest

Scroop:
Although I focused on animating "Captain Amelia", I also Supervised "Scroop"
I animated this scene early in production.
He was designed with a spider/crab lower body, crab claws, insect head, and some human upper body. Note his weird tongue.
"Creepy" was the goal.
#scroop #treasureplanet

Jane Pencil tests.

I tried to Jane develop as a character during the film. When we first see her she moves in a quick staccato way. Later, after meeting Tarzan, and more relaxed (& costume change), her animation is more "even", more smooth arced motion.

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The original introduction of Jane, that I'd animated.
The decision was to remove this gag in the end and was simplified.

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A few pencil tests of Megara.
The first shot shows a rough pass at animation. I first draw stick-figure versions to capture the idea for the scene. Don't want to spend time on clean drawings if the idea isn't good. Then I spend time.

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