Fred Moore

Fred Moore (1911-1952) was an animator that worked for Walt Disney.  Moore had very little training in art, but he was able to work his way in Disney very quickly.  He is best remembered for redesigning Mickey Mouse for the 1938 movie, Fantasia.  The look that Moore gave Mickey in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is still used in the movies and games that Mickey appears in today.  During Moore’s brief life, he constructed his Fred’s 14 Points of Animation.

1. Appeal in drawing.  The drawing has to be appealing to someone that isn't your mother
2. Staging is process of selecting, designing, adapting to, or modifying the performance space for a play or film
3. Most interesting way?  It needs to catch the audience's interest and not your mother.
4. Is it the most entertaining way?  Can this be entertaining to the audience.
5. Are you in character?  The character should be acting out of it's personality
6. Are you advancing the character?  Establishing personality and it's involvement in the story.
7. Is this the simplest statement of the idea of the scene? This should be simple for the audience to understand
8. Is the story point clear?  Audience needs to understand what the story is about
9. Are the secondary actions working with the main action?  Do the secondary actions and the main actions go together
10. Is the presentation best for the medium?  The medium creates the animation
11. Does it have 2 dimensional clarity? How well the viewer can see what needs to be noticed.
12. Does it have 3 dimensional solidity?  Objects have to be 3 dimensional
13. Does it have 4 dimensional drawing?  This includes drag and follow through
14. Are you trying to do something that shouldn’t be attempted?  This is when animators try something risky with their animation like showing the top of Mickey's head