Q: I recently re-watched Goliath II, and I always wondered how a perfectionist like Walt Disney released an animated short with so many sketch lines left on some of the characters. Why didn’t he have the clean-up artists fix the drawings before they were printed on film?
Laura, Casper, Wyoming
A: Goliath II (1960) was the first time that the Xerox process was used to transfer the animators’ drawings to cels. Since the animators’ original pencil drawings are used, rather than inked lines, on cels there is more of a sketchiness than usual. You will see a similar look in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, from 1961.
Dave Smith