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Always open to creative endeavors! Owner of Duncan Animation Studio. Pasadena, Ca Photography is a hobby.. kenduncan.darkroom.com instagram - kenduncan9
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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

submitted 59 days ago • 6 comments

Animating Jane during "Tarzan". #animator #disneyanimation #tarzanjane #canadian #lefthanded

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

"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.

submitted 64 days ago • 4 comments

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.

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 72 days ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 74 days ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 76 days ago • 23 comments

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

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments

Doppler; During the early design phase of "Treasure Planet", I sketched a few ideas for Doppler. At the time, the directors wanted Jeff Goldblum to voice the character. (Sergio Pablos would design/animate Doppler). #doppler #treasureplanet #characterdesign #2danimation

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments

Jane Pencil tests. I tried to Jane develop as a character during the film. When we first see her she moves in a quick staccato way. Later, after meeting Tarzan, and more relaxed (& costume change), her animation is more "even", more smooth arced motion. #tarzanjane #disneyanimation #penciltest

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

Disney Days; Wandering around and taking photos. -Doug Frankel: Supervising animator, Kingdom of the Sun(New Groove) -Directors Ron Clements and John Musker during Hercules (& Mermaid, Aladdin, Moana) -Hercules crew of Supervisors, and visiting Paris animators -Clean-Up Supervisor Marshall Toomey

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Photo I took of Joe Grant, circa 1999. Joe began at Disney in 1932 designing for the shorts. He designed the Witch in Snow White, wrote the screenplay for Dumbo, helped Walt choose music for Fantasia. He was basically Walt's creative right-hand man. Joe left Disney in 1952 returned in the 80s.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

The original introduction of Jane, that I'd animated. The decision was to remove this gag in the end and was simplified. #tarzanjane #gag #2danimation #kdunc9 #disneyanimation #kenduncananimation

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Disney Animation; 1995 I took this long exposure photo, using a 1962 Rolleiflex film camera. The posters are for "Toy Story", which would premiere 2 weeks later and transform animated films. My office was behind the "N" on the left. #disneyanimation #animationstudio #architecture #rolleiflex

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Animation building; 1997 Took this while leaving one evening. Someone was packing up their office and heading to Dreamworks. #disneyanimation #animationstudio #bwphotography #animation

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment