Walt Disney's Donald Duck 50 Years of Happy Frustration.....

As a final look into character development I had a choice, Micky mouse or Donald duck. Sure, there is alot more variety when it comes to studying animated characters but hell noone does it like Disney in my eyes.

The book (yes the title really features the words happy frustration) gives a unique look into one of the most beloved characters in Disney's arsenal and how he came to be. Aside from all the amazing stories and reference pictures that it offers the book is also a heart warming story of how Donald and Walt shared a theoretical bond of emotions which lead to Donald becoming so 'Alive'.

The section that I had originally found most useful (aside from the entire book!) was the small chapter devoted to the animation of Donald. The animation team mention that, "A picture is not started upon in the Disney Studio," and "it happens into being by fortuitous circumstance. It evolves as a result of interplay between the happy accident and intense concentration. As a result of the free cooperation of minds, ideas are in constant circulation....always being improved upon."

After looking through the variations of designs and methods that Donald was created through I decided to take a different approach on how to design my robot. Piece by piece like a jigsaw rather than entire blocks of a building.

Bibliography

• O'brien, Flora. Walt Disney's Donald Duck: 50 Years of Happy Frustration. Tucson, AZ: HP, 1984. Print.