Preliminary Hobbit Character Concept Studies by master Czech animator Jiří Trnka, 1964
“But I dreamed big, visually. I pitched Snyder the idea to employ Jiří Trnka to design the film. It was going to be a lavish production in a rich painting style! I was thinking of making use of the great set-building skill of the model makers at Trnka’s studio, in a sort of update of what Max Fleischer tried many years earlier, the use of real set backgrounds, with drawn animation characters superimosed over them. Would it have worked? Remember that the luxury of computer-generated animation had not even been dreamt of at that time!
Trnka agreed to make some preliminary character concepts for me to take to New York with my finished screenplay. Obviously, today I couldn’t fool around with Tolkien characters, but at the time, as the story was little known in America, coming from 1920s Olde England. It seemed foreign and dated in its language. Whatever. Even though Trnka forgot to put furry feet on his Bilbo Baggins model, and neither of us yet had a clue of the true weight of the Gollum character, he quickly produced 8 gorgeous images for me. They were never intended to be more than first studies, yet they clearly indicated the magical vision I aimed for.”- Gene Deitch
Read more on Jiří Trnka at Gene’s Credits blog: http://genedeitchcredits.com/roll-the-credits/43-jiri-trnka/
Watch the 1st Animated Hobbit here: http://nudnikrevealed.tumblr.com/post/69831753174/first-animated-hobbit-directed-by-gene-deitch
Buy Nudnik Revealed on DVD http://www.rembrandtfilms.com/nudnik.htm & Book http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/nudnik-revealed.html?vmcchk=1
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