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How rough, how clean ? II
Another batch of animation drawings that show a variety of styles. The Sneezy drawing above showsthat animator Fred Moore worked very fast and intuitively. Since he designed the final models for...
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Disney's Most Modern
It's strange for me to realize that the most modern Disney animated feature goes back to 1961. That's over 50 years ago!!Anything that followed (with the exception of Sword in the Stone) went back...
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Keynote and Book Signing at CTN
This is CTN weekend!I will be giving a keynote presentation on the topic of Disney's Nine Old Men on Saturday 11/21, at 12:30PM in the CTNers Lounge. It will include rare interview clips, fantastic art...
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Fred Moore Pin Up
Had a fantastic weekend at CTN. Met some terrific people from all over the world, and it's always great running into artists I used to work with.A little short on time, here is a great Fred Moore pen...
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From the Desk of...
All supervising animators at Disney had personalized note pads, like this one by Milt Kahl.The sheets were small size, just enough to put down a note, the animator might leave at someone's desk, or...
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The Truth about Mother Goose
What a great color sketch by Eyvind Earle for the Disney featurette film The Truth about Mother Goose. Disney Wiki says this about the film:The Truth about Mother Goose was an animated short, released...
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Sleeping Beauty Eye Candy
A few glorious stills (though not in widescreen) from Disney's classic Sleeping Beauty.The film was a gutsy experiment in art direction, it disappointed at the box office when first released in 1959,...
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Wilhelm M. Busch 1965
In the mid 1960s Busch illustrated a little book with short poems and one-liners by Georg Opitz.Here are a few drawings from this edition.I am still crazy about Busch's economy of line, he leaves out a...
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Hawaiian Warrior Princess tames African Lion
I was recently invited to speak and draw in front of a D23 group. The event took place in the Hyperion building on the Disney Studio lot. I also created a special drawing with a couple of characters I...
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Dalmatians Mix
Here is a small selection of various art from 101 Dalmatians. This was Disney's first animated feature set in a modern, contemporary setting, and you can see a sense of excitement and experimentation...
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The Disney Style
It is interesting to see how the visual approach in Walt Disney's animated films changed over the years. From Snow White's romantic realism to graphic sophistication in Sword in the Stone.As you might...
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More Bambi Art
Bambi is one of those films that might have ended up mediocre if it wasn't for the fact that everybody involved in this production was a top notch artist. All that realism Walt Disney called for could...
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...From Walt Disney and Staff
Walt Disney Productions' Christmas cards were often very beautiful. The artwork was produced by the studio's animators, designers and background artists. Usually the main illustration showed what...
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Sword in the Stone Art
Toward the end of the year, here is another post featuring artwork from Disney's The Sword in the Stone. I love this beautifully crafted book which was created for the beginning of the film, as its...
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Moore/Gauguin
Heritage Auctions continues to offer absolutely stunning, rare animation art, and I look forward to each new selection of artwork. I wished I would have made a bid on the piece pictured above. At first...
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Bernard Garbutt Bird Sketches
Disney animal expert Bernard Garbutt has a sensational sense for observation. There isn't a creature he couldn't draw well. Here are pages from his sketchbook of a variety of birds, sketched at a...
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Holiday Greetings
This little (actually tiny) sketch is an outtake from a musical montage sequence in the film where we see Sarah and Mushka bond. This was sketch A, sketch B showed the tiger pushing Sarah into a deep...
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From Story Sketch to Final Frame
I talked about this scene before from Lady and the Tramp. Tramp, the salesman, is trying to convince the Beaver at the zoo how useful Lady's muzzle would be as a genuine log puller.I just came across...
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King Triton
I just realized that during my years of blogging I haven't posted anything yet on King Triton from The Little Mermaid. Actually I didn't think I had kept any such material, so to my surprise a bunch of...
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"My precious Pets..."
Milt Kahl had a way of challenging himself when animating his final character, Madame Medusa for the film The Rescuers. Acting and drawing are not based on live action reference, all of this comes out...
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