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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thank you for your kind words. Seeing as it was not successful on its release, it's always great to hear from people who really enjoyed it.🤙🏼

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The style of the film was rather "cartoon". So the girls are drawn in a way that I draw....with some homage to the 1940s era of animation.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The negative was usually quite large, so they could paint, or stipple, things out on the negative before making prints. This was done for portraits...painting out skin blemishes on the negative. Or they could paint things out on the actual print and the take a photo of the print for a final image.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Close.. 377' x 16 frames= 6,032 frames. Film is literally 16 frames per 12 inches when measured. Some images are held for 2 frames, some for 1 frame. The number of total drawings then, about 4,200. Roughs first, final roughs, and redrawn completely hey the Clean-up drawings. 10,500 pieces of paper?

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Uh, I'm pretty sure this is all real.

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Tiger Sparks @misstigersparks.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

“I... I used to make long speeches to you after you left. I used to talk to you all the time, even though I was alone.” Paris, Texas (1984) director Wim Wenders …Beautiful Super 8 sequence…📽️

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Young people be like; "That's B&W, I'm not gonna watch that".🥹

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

It seems to be, "Don't be a Sucker"

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Errr, not the people commenting on this post. And not "all".

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Americans can't admit it, but Putin is the real leader. He's drooling as he watches this directive become reality. 🤤

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

A Desk's Journey.... Here a little story about my old Disney animation desk. Someone recently contacted me about it. (I signed the underside of the tabletop)... #disneyanimation #kdunc9 #animationdesk

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Assistants basically rough inbetweened shots. Or sections of some shots. So it would be difficult to quantify a quota. The records would show what they worked on....

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Yes, he was an assistant in the film.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

There were around 40 animators on the film.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

"Hercules Footage Report". The final weekly report. We used "footage" to asses the work total. (1 foot = 16 frames of 35mm film). The goal was to average 5' a week (16x5 =80 frames). My own animation total was 4 minutes of the film. Along with supervising others, and attending countless meetings.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Yes, the directors felt it slowed the chase to a "stop"....

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Yes, thank you. The directors felt that it slowed down the chase sequence too much. Once they decided to truncate the shot I gave it to another animator to change it. I disliked re-doing animation...🧐

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

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.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

No I've not seen her before...

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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) #beautyandbeast #belle #disneyanimation #penciltest #2danimation

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Mm, I'm not sure who did most of the Gaston scenes.. It's a good one though.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Yes, when supervising a character i usually didn't want to animate any others in the scenes, feeling that I didn't have a full understanding of the other characters. I wanted to focus on creating a strong performance throughout the film, with my team..and to animate as much of the character myself.🤓

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Acting is generally one character reacting to another. So we decide on who is leading the action in a shot. i.e. When he grabs the book, she reacts. So we did a sketch of Belle's location when he grabs book, then Andreas roughed out Gaston. I roughed Belle. Upon Director approval we finished shot.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

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

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Animator preference. I like drawing with red pencil, some use blue or normal lead....

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Crazy. Glad I don't really buy any of these products, except Gillette razors and mineral water....

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Yeah, it was the first sequence into production, so pretty much everyone worked on it.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Never thought of that but Mok has some of my favourite animation, especially in his red costume. Jafar does have a similar design style to ZigZag in "Thief and the Cobbler".

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

More Captain Amelia designs Trying out head shapes, costumes, promotions, etc. It would take several weeks/months to get a final approved design (it needed to be animatable). #captainamelia #characterdesign #treasureplanet #femaleleader #kdunc9 #2danimation #disneyanimation

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Mmm, i probably thought of the physical stature of Steven Tyler (Arrowsmith) more when designing

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Only in this test scene. Dourif left to film "Lord of the Rings".... He was replaced with Michael Wincott for the actual production.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The directors wanted a cartoon, graphic style. They hired English Illustrator Gerald Scarfe. He sketched several designs and it was the bases of the style. (And classic Greek design). We then designed our own characters for animation. (Gerald said he had a hard time drawing females).

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Scroop; Voice actor (Mark Hamill would have been cool). Scroop was painted digitally using Corel Painter (circa 1999) #scroop #treasureplanet #voiceactor #villain

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Yes, that sort of character has a specific purpose,i.e. the shark in Jaws (large shape that terrorizes), the policeman in Psycho(intimidates), the father in Cloudy/with Meatballs (monolith of a person, funny in context, eyes shown occasionally), robots with no eyes seem detached (trustworthy?).

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Anytime. I could discuss it all day. But tough with only 300 characters at a time...🥹

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Specifically we look at people's eyes.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In a film, you decide on what you want to communicate to an audience, and when. Is a character stoic early on, causing the audience to be curious about what they're thinking? Then do you reveal why, later in the film and reveal a character change? Each scene/pose communicates what you want it to.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Generally, humans mostly look at other people's faces to read how they're feeling...in that long Jane "boot" scene I posted, she's running around, but her head does flop around...the viewer can read her expression at all times. She's acting out what's in her memory and we see her concern, then joy.

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Ken Duncan @kdunc9.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It's a combination of both. Or it can be specific to a character... i.e. Buster Keaton was "stone face" and that became part of his personality. A raise of an eyebrow along with the timing of body motion can communicate a lot. (Timing is very important)....

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