Storyboard Drawings 8 – Escaping Lena Hyena
Storyboard Drawings 7 – Escaping from Lena Hyena… Harald Siepermann
These storyboard drawings were done by Harald Siepermann, working at Amblin in June 1987 along with Hans Bacher.
Storyboard Drawings 6 – Entering Toontown
Storyboard Drawings 5 – Chased by the Weasels… Marty Kline
Roger Rabbit and Eddie Valiant were chased by the weasels after escaping Judge Doom at the Terminal Bar. The following storyboards show the chase as it was represented in the final film and an alternate chase that was storyboarding by Marty Kline at Amblin.
Storyboard Drawings 4 – Eddie Valiant’s Office… David Russell
Storyboard drawings by David Russell
Storyboard Drawings 3 – Ink and Paint Club… David Russell
These storyboard drawings were done primarily by David Russell, an artist contracted by Amblin.
Storyboard Drawings 2 – Dueling Pianos… Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones was a consultant early in the film preparation. Of course, he had a proprietary interest in the Warner Bros. characters and did some story work for the ‘Dueling Pianos’ segment. Story development on the ‘Dueling Pianos’ segment was done later by Joe Ranft and Mark Kausler, in conjunction …
Storyboard Drawings 1 – Maroon Cartoon… Richard Williams
In the making of animated films, both shorts and feature length, story(board) drawings are made to develop gags, establish the story, identify camera moves, and guide the animation. ‘Who framed Roger Rabbit was one of the earlier animated feature films to utilize a ‘script’ prepared by designated scriptwriters. Nevertheless, storyboard …
Glendale Unit
The Grand Central area is located in Glendale not far, as the crow flies, from the Walt Disney Studio in Burbank… just on the east side of the Golden State Freeway. It had been the location of the old Glendale municipal airport. WED Enterprises (now, Walt Disney Imagineering) has been …
Classic Rock Group connections
Even though one can find ‘six degrees’ of almost anybody from anybody else, there are several connections to classic rock groups amongst the people who worked on Who framed Roger Rabbit that are much closer than ‘six degrees.’ Simon Wells, an animator on Who framed Roger Rabbit in London and …