Disney And Little Nemo Comparison

When it comes to early animation during the Silent Era, many would prefer Walt Disney as their favorite animator because he is one of the most famous cartoonist and created popular fictional characters including Alice’s Wonderland and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and many would think that Winsor McCay’s cartoons are incredible because he is famous for creating comic strips such as Little Nemo which was made into a film. However, McCay and Disney’s lives and careers are not similar to each other through how they became interested in drawing and the journey to their success. Both have different styles of work in animation and were prosperous, though they were struggling at first years of their career. I prefer Disney’s animation films because I have grown up watching his films on television and it was very interesting to read about his early
Nemo was the protagonist in “Little Nemo in Slumberland” which was also created by McCay. It about a child who would have great dreams and they would get interrupted every week when he wakes up in the last panels of the comics. The appearance of Nemo was based on his son Robert and was inspired by his flipbooks. In the making of “Little Nemo”, it took four years to make with four thousand rice paper drawings and the film’s length was four minutes. This black and white film was colored by hand before it was shown to the audience. It became a huge success. Another work of McCay’s is called “How a Mosquito Operates,” which was after the success of Little Nemo. This silent film is about a story of a mosquito who torments a man who is asleep. This film was considered high quality of naturalistic animation since this was one of the earliest animated films made. This film is six minutes long. The style of this animation is line-drawn, it is flat with no dimensions and only using thin lines to draw. This film is more naturalistic and the character in the story is more developed than Little