Glen Keane
Glen Keane is a very skilled 36-year-old animator, who has been working for Walt Disney. He’s a well-known because he created and animated Ariel, from “The Little Mermaid”, Aladdin, Pocahontas, the Beast from “Beauty And The Beast”, and Tarzan.
Keane was born in Abington, Pennsylvania, and he’s the middle of five children. His father Bil Keane was an artist and the creator of the very popular newspaper comic strip called “Family Circus”. He enjoyed watching his father draw cartoon and because of his father, Keane developed an early interest in art. As he’s dad was a cartoonist, Keane started drawing copies of ‘Dynamic Anatomy’ by Burne Hogarth, at an early age.
After high school, Keane submitted his portfolio to the California Institute of the Arts, however his portfolio accidently ended up into the school of Film Graphics (animation), and he also got accepted there. He decided to study that course and continue with his path. That’s when he discovered that animation was a combination of all arts, and he instantly loved animating and that’s what he wanted to do for the rest of his career.
In 1974, he joined Disney and was trained by the legendary animators Ollie Johnson, Frank Thomas and Eric Larson. Keane’s first animating scene was “The Rescuers” before being the director on the film “The Fox Hound”. However, he sadly left Disney Studios in the spring in 2012, but he went to animate the 3rd interactive episode in the Google Spotlight Stories series, named Duet, which was realised by the end of 2014.
Duet was one of Keane's hand-drawn short film for Googe' new ATAP (advanced technology and projects). it's also one of the three shorts in a new series called Spotlight Stories for mobile devices. The Spotlight shorts use the sensory inputs of a mobile device, where it creates an interactive mobile specific storytelling experience.
What I like about this short film is the old school hand drawn technique that Keane has used to create it, and how different is from the other animations, as has a background with a gradient colour blue, without a a detailed background or a mid ground, by doing that the audience can have all their attention on what tis going and what the characters are doing, without getting distracted by other things.
Duet is an emotional and beautiful short film, where it shows the growth of a couple over time. The to starts as babies and chase echoer throughout the over three minute short. The thing that captures the emotion of the film is the hand drawn technique.
Duet was one of Keane's hand-drawn short film for Googe' new ATAP (advanced technology and projects). it's also one of the three shorts in a new series called Spotlight Stories for mobile devices. The Spotlight shorts use the sensory inputs of a mobile device, where it creates an interactive mobile specific storytelling experience.
What I like about this short film is the old school hand drawn technique that Keane has used to create it, and how different is from the other animations, as has a background with a gradient colour blue, without a a detailed background or a mid ground, by doing that the audience can have all their attention on what tis going and what the characters are doing, without getting distracted by other things.
Duet is an emotional and beautiful short film, where it shows the growth of a couple over time. The to starts as babies and chase echoer throughout the over three minute short. The thing that captures the emotion of the film is the hand drawn technique.In this video it shows how Glen Keane worked for the film Duet.
For my animation Music video, I'm going to use the same technique and drawing style as Glen Keane. However the drawing's of the characters it will be a bit more detailed than Keane's drawings, as I want the facial expressions of the character be more noticeable.
