Animation by Milt Kahl*

Art of The Aristocats →

The stripes on Thomas are driving me bananas, they look SO GOOD. I understand that probably would be a giant price hike, but man I am bummed we didn't get him with a striped design

id recognize those head tilts anywhere

Easily my favourite Disney animator! He captured the personalities and body language of these characters perfectly in pencil!

I really like this scene cause you'd think, from how O'Malley behaves, that he'd be appalled or reluctant to help with the inclusion of the kits, but after that initial shock, he's back to smiling. shows his innately kinder nature, I thinks.

I think I prefer this original design of O’Malley! Slightly more distinctive and also love the stripes on his fur. Some different editing choices and differences in angles, wide, medium and close

The head swaggle while talking. Yep, that's Milt Kahl, all right!

The animation is superb in the first place, but the head waggle during "And what might your name be?" is the animator flexing on their skill in animation. Animating a mouth moving while someone is talking and having it look good is hard, and very few animators could get it right

In the German Version Duchess keep saying „we“ because she‘s talking about her and the kids but Thomas probably heard is as „pluralis majestatis“ or something. If he really listen this „we“ should’ve confuse him 😅

I love her clap, keeping in mind the way kitty paws are built!