VAILL 385 Character Design Fall 2014: 11/11/14

“The styling of the film, backgrounds, props, etc. must be appropriate to the character design. Normally you wouldn't want to design a complex, realistic environment for highly stylized, flat, cartoony characters, and vice versa. Every character and element should feel like it lives in the same world... I fee that the background styling should have the same treatment as the characters. .. It just seemed to make sense to me and tied everything together nicely. Disney was going for a softer, more realistic treatment at the time. This type of art direction would not have worded as well there.”

The Nobel Approach pg 85

Bruce Zick

“Background and layout design is in many cases like a cartoon character, a caricature of reality. How much does Daffy really look like a duck or Bugs really look like a bunny? Don't be afraid to use the same sort of logic in your layout design. Of course, the about of characterization you use in design will depend on your story.”

The Nobel Approach pg 85

“Id always had in the back of my mind that super-realism in the backgrounds behind flat animation was not the right approach. So when I got the opportunity, I started to place more emphasis on shape. I started … to create she spaces by shapes, instead of a lot of fussy shadows and so forth. I tried to create each frame to support the action, and not clutter up anything or interfere with a gag or bit of action”

The Nobel Approach pg 27

Marcello Vignalli