#Dale Baer

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Yzma Poses “The Emperor's New Groove” (2000)

[elijones94]

🦉🐯 The personalities of owls in animation range from wise mentors to comedic types. When I was a kid, I oftened called friends and family members names of cartoon characters that match their personalities. For example, Grandpa Dale reminded me of Owl from the “Winnie the Pooh” cartoons due to his frequent words or wisdom and his habit of taking an afternoon nap. I based this drawing on a picture I saw on a blog post by former Disney animator Andreas Deja. It is of a scene from the 2011 “Winnie the Pooh” movie in which everyone has gathered at Owl’s house discussing their fear of Christopher Robin’s alleged abduction perpetrated by the dreaded monstrous Backson. Deja actually animated a small bit of Owl and Tigger interacting. The late Dale Baer was the lead animator for Owl. 🐾🌳

http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2013/07/disney-owls.html?m=1

[artofwinniethepooh]

Owl pencil test by Dale Baer for Winnie the Pooh (2011)

[saehooh]

Inspired by Dale Baer's drawing of the film "Feast" concept art.

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Goofy’s Big Screen Return

How To Hook Up Your Home Theater, 2007

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

An aesthetic I often think about... The Golden Age of Hollywood, particularly the animation and cartoons, but revisited through a late '80s/early '90s lens...

Yeah, that was a thing circa 1988-1994ish. A real nostalgia rush for the way movies used to be made and how things used to look, but reinvented with those signature offbeat qualities of the late '80s and the tech/effects they had on hand.

In a way, Robert Zemeckis' WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT - featuring exemplary animation directed by Richard Williams and an unsung Dale Baer - and Tim Burton's BATMAN really ushered in this era. Throwback films like the INDIANA JONES series already existed by this point, but I feel it was movies like these that really started a brief movement of sorts.

The former reminded audiences that it was not only cool to like cartoons again, but that the old favorites were actually pretty neat. After Roger Rabbit, you saw revivals in Looney Tunes and you saw many TV cartoons made in a similar vein, ending a frustrating era where most cartoons on TV were kidvid toy commercials. This was also greatly helped by Disney releasing their animated classics and cartoon shorts on video for the first time during this era, and soon Warner Bros. and Turner were releasing retrospective VHS and LaserDisc compilations pulling from their vast libraries of animated shorts. Especially w/ character birthdays coming up!

The latter lead to a bunch of pulp-style superhero/action movies, though that aesthetic seemed to quickly flame out by the mid-1990s. THE ROCKETEER went down as a cult classic, while THE SHADOW, THE PHANTOM, and others just couldn't cut it at the box office. Curiously, there was also a BRENDA STARR, REPORTER movie - simply titled BRENDA STARR - that was filmed in 1986 (it's the image of the woman on top of the windowsill, high off the ground), but wasn't released in the U.S. until 1992. While it was a big critical and commercial flop, this campy take on the 1940s comic strip kind of beat this wave to the punch? There was also a CAPTAIN AMERICA movie partially set during World War II made after the success of Tim Burton's BATMAN, too, one that also had a hard time getting released after it was completed.

It all just happened to come out around the same time.

[nintendroid]

Classic Nintendo commercial resurfaces, Showcasing Mario, Link and others animated by Disney Legend Dale Baer

The artwork/animation in the commercial was handled by none other than Dale Baer. Baer worked on countless Disney classics like Robin Hood, The Rescuers, The Lion King, Tarzan, and others. He also did work for other landmark films like Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Turns out Baer also worked in the commercial field for 27 years, which is what led him to this Nintendo-related spot. 

Miyamoto gave these characters life. Baer gave them soul. Will we ever get an interpretation like this again? 

GoNintendo’s article

Watch the commercial here

[punster-2319]

Last year when veteran Disney animator Dale Baer passed away it was said that his last known animation work was on The Bob’s Burgers Movie, but for some reason he was left uncredited. If I could take a wild guess I would say that he animated a good chunk of the opening scene/musical number just from how fluid the animation was.

[pantaro]

The reply to the sourced Tweet is “April Fools”, so the validity of this exact cel is in question. But the Dale Baer-animated commercial is real.

Animation cel from the production of the 1989 “World of Nintendo” commercial. The commercial was animated by Disney artist Dale Baer, which gave it a distinctive style not usually seen in Nintendo material.

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Found out Dale Baer died today. He was a Disney animator known for Yzma from The Emperor’s New Groove and many others. I knew him from an assembly at my CalArts program back in 2019. He was a pretty cool dude that left an impression on me and the animation industry. He will be missed.

[elijones94]

🦈 This is one of my favorite drawings I’ve done. This is Sharkman Maui. In my copy of the “Art of Moana” book, I saw an early concept drawing of a bald-headed Maui, like the one you see here with the shark fin and tail. The gold bracelets are my homage to the Genie from “Aladdin” and somewhat of King Triton from “Little Mermaid”. The drawing I saw in the book was done by the late Dale Baer. 🌊🪝

[artofwinniethepooh]

Eeyore pencil test by Mario Furmanczyk done in preparation for Winnie the Pooh (2011)

“Here's another test shot I animated which I thought was lost forever haha. Dale Baer was my mentor at this time which was awesome! He worked with the Nine Old Men and shared many cool stories about the studio back then.”

[saehooh]

Work in progress.

Inspired by Dale Baer's animation of Disney's Feast.

Shot X3 on each frame.

Running on 24 FPS.

Currently altogether 17 frames in total.

Animated by Saeho Oh

[stevehatguy]

The Making of ‘Mickey’s Christmas Carol’

Part 6

Burny’s small but mighty team of animators was slowly coming together.  Block and Keane animated the majority of Scrooge in the film.  Keane also requested to work on Willie the Giant as the Ghost of Christmas Present, basing the giant’s awkward movements on his son Max, who was 18 months at the time.  Ed Gombert had storyboarded these sequences and, after his work in story was finished, Gombert stayed on as an animator, bringing Ratty and Mole back to the screen.  Burny called up Dale Baer and asked him if he would animate the climactic sequence in the cemetery where Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Future, played by Mickey’s old nemesis Pete.  Baer had started at the studio in 1971 as only the second person to be accepted into the studio’s newly formed training program led by master animator Eric Larson, one of Walt’s Nine Old Men.  Baer left Disney in 1977 and had been working on the outside since.  He was thrilled to be offered this juicy section of the film as well as the chance to work with Burny again.

The only character that was proving to be the most challenging was Mickey himself.  Burny needed someone that could animate the mouse’s deceptively simple design with confidence and ease.  One day he saw an animation test of Mickey that was done for The Emperor and the Nightingale, a proposed short subject that Mickey would star in.  He was impressed with the animation and learned that it was done by a young artist named Mark Henn.  Henn wasn’t even a full-fledged animator yet.  He had just come into Larson’s training program the previous year and was now trying to get promoted, which is why he had done the Mickey test.  It worked.  Not only did Burny see to it that Mark was promoted to animator but he gave him the job of being his ‘Mickey Man.’  Quite a way to begin a career at a Disney.