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Chuck Jones Drawings
A small gallery of Chuck Jones sketches from some of his short films or otherwise. I love the kind of tension going on between lines and volumes. He is always trying for the "Unusual", making what...
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A Must Have
I mean it. This new Ueber Coffee Table book by Taschen is one of the best books on Disney Animation ever. There is so much new visual material, it will make your head spin. I did not write any of the...
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Mirko Hanak
"Mirko Hanak was one of Czechoslovakia's most popular illustrators of children's books. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Prague and published the first of his dozens successful books in 1951....
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Van Eaton Galleries
I have been purchasing animation art from Van Eaton Galleries here in LA for many years. Once in a while the owner Mike van Eaton comes across pieces that I want to own. Sometimes I feel like I...
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More Hovarth Art
A few more vintage pages with character designs by the great Ferdinand Hovarth, who worked at Disney from 1933 - 1937. He put his mark on many short films during that time as well as on the upcoming...
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Mirko Hanak 1964
More of Mirko Hanak's beautiful children's book illustrations. These images are from an English edition, titled Sing a Song of Everything. What amazes me about his work is the endless variety of...
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Soft Hands
Milt Kahl animated this scene with Georges Hautecourt from The Aristocats. This close up is a great example of loose, moving flesh during a dialogue scene. Hautecourt thinks he is holding Madame...
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To Kill a Mockingbird/ Busch 1962
Illustrations by Wilhelm M. Busch from the German 1962 edition of To Kill A Mockingbird.Beautiful line drawings that define mood, depth of scenery and personality. I am eating this stuff up.These...
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Wondergirl
My friend Tom Bancroft has this thing for Wonder Woman and Captain America. He keeps a sketchbook handy and asks other artists to sketch their version of those characters. I did this drawing for him...
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Mary Blair
Much has been written about Mary Blair and her work on Disney films as well as Disneyland attractions. There is a sophisticated simplicity going through her work that Walt Disney was attracted to, and...
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A Great Lounsbery Scene
John Lounsbery animated this hilarious moment from The Jungle Book. Colonel Hathi prevents the Bugler elephant from sounding the alarm prematurely. Bugler forms the instrument with his trunk, and...
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Studying Sullivant
I did these sketches based on T.S. Sullivant's illustrations a few years ago. When a particular artist fascinates you, it's a good idea to take a closer look and analyze why the stuff looks so...
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Bruno Bozzetto
Bruno Bozzetto is an Italian genius! This photo shows him outside the Disney Animation building with Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas and Eric Larson sometime during the late 1970s.Bruno has won acclaim...
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Jafar by Nik Ranieri
Nik animated a bunch of great scenes with Jafar way back. He also did this sketch of - I think you know who. This was late in production when we were animating Jafar with a Sultan hat.I sure wish...
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More on Milt's Merlin
These sheets were put together during production of The Sword in the Stone. They show partial Milt Kahl drawings, focusing on Merlin's head as well as his hands. At that time Milt couldn't be bothered...
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More on Milt's Sir Ector
I love this size sheet made up of Milt Kahl drawings. What a great variety of characters defined by unique proportions and shapes.As Frank and Ollie noted in The Illusion of Life, the human characters...
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More on Milt's Sir Kay
In this scene Kay walks away from Wart at the end of the dishwashing sequence. Wart is defending Merlin's magic, while Sir Ector proclaims that young Hobs instead of Wart is going to be Kay's...
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Even more on Milt's Sword in the Stone
One more in a series of posts regarding Milt Kahl's work on Sword in the Stone.Milt loved working on this film, because his character design sensibilities and overall draughtsmanship dominate the...
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Bavarian Tigers
A while back when I was studying the style of American cartoonist superstar T.S. Sullivant, I came up with a few graphic exercises like this one. I tried to apply his complex illustration style to new...
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