Watch Disney Animator Glen Keane Draw The Beast and Ariel in Virtual Reality
I've got a beautiful short film for you to watch today called "Glen Keane - Step in the Page." Keane is a veteran Disney animator who has worked on several different films over the course of forty years. In the short, he talks about the art of animation and how the tools used to create these films have changed over the years. You get to see Keane at work drawing out characters on paper. Then you get to see him draw characters like The Beast from Beauty and the Beast and Ariel from The Little Mermaid in virtual reality. He also talks about what it's like to step into this world and create art. It's pretty damn awesome and inspiring.
The video comes from Future Of StoryTelling, and here's the description that came along with the video:
Over nearly four decades at Disney, Glen Keane animated some the most compelling characters of our time: Ariel from The Little Mermaid, the titular beast in Beauty and the Beast, and Disney’s Tarzan, to name just a few. The son of cartoonist Bil Keane (The Family Circus), Glen learned early on the importance of holding onto your childhood creativity—and how art can powerfully convey emotion. Keane has spent his career embracing new tools, from digital environments to 3D animation to today’s virtual reality, which finally enables him to step into his drawings and wander freely through his imagination. At FoST, he'll explore how to tap into your own creativity, connecting to emotion and character more directly than ever before.