Let a Disney animator walk you through a single shot from Beauty And The Beast

It takes a certain, extremely patient mindset to work on animated films, especially the ones built laboriously from individual hand drawings, one fraction of a second at a time. But artist and animator Aaron Blaise definitely seems to have had the temperament for it. He worked on a whole string of classic Disney films in the 1990s, including The Lion King, Mulan, and Aladdin, and he even directed 2003’s Brother Bear. Now, through his YouTube channel, he shares some of the tricks of the trade with aspiring artists who want to see how it’s done. Luckily, though much of his current work is digital in nature, Blaise obviously still retains a great deal of affection for the old ways of doing things. Better yet, he had the foresight to hold onto a bunch of old drawings he made for 1991’s Beauty And The Beast, and in a new tutorial video, he walks viewers through a single shot from that film.