James "Shamus" Culhane was the only animator to
work on all of the first four animated feature-length
While
at the Disney studio, he discovered while working on Hawaiian Holiday's crab
sequence an animation method that involved stewing for multiple days, before
drawing the entire thing in rough sketches all at once, straight ahead, without
invoking the left side of the brain. He was a lead animator on Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs, animating arguably the most well-known sequence in the film,
the animation of the dwarfs marching home singing "Heigh Ho". The
scene took Culhane and his assistants six months to complete. During this time
he developed his 'High-speed' technique of using only the right side of the
brain and animating with quick dashed-off sketches.
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