Mike Ollerton Blog

 Milt Kahl is probably one of the most studied and beloved artists in animation. He has often been pointed to as the greatest draftsman of his generation. I am in no exception of also being in complete awe of his drawing, I first became aware of him for the skill he showed in drawing hands, however this skill really extended to every facet of his work.  The Disney style really refined and evolved from Milt’s pencil in the years he was active at the studio. Many artist would turn to him to help refine there character designs and have him help out with particularly difficult drawings. In a studio full of masters of their craft he stood out way above the rest. But what made his work so good and so much better than the rest.  When I first started looking more seriously into the Disney artist and particularly Milt’s work while I could clearly see his skill in areas such as the hands and just generally all his work looked flawless however I didn’t necessarily see why he was so ...

Again these can all be found on Andrea’s deja blog with much more interesting and informative comments.  https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2011/10/milt-kahl-crowd-scenes.html Adding this post here so I can come back to reference it again later along with the drawings all in one place. I appreciate this blog is very derivative of  Andreas Deja’s with posts like this but this will probs be a common theme with this blog, most of the stuff I’m adding can be found elsewhere on the internet but I just want to compile the stuff I like somewhere for myself to be able to reference. Such a masterclass of animation, I will be studying these extensively!