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A Most Amazing Afternoon
Many of you know that yesterday, December 15, marked the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney's death.Recently the W. Disney Company went through great lengths to restore Walt's original office.Over the...
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Lisa Davis
Lisa Davis has become a good friend of mine ever since my clean up lead Kathy Bailey introduced me to her many years ago. Lisa is full of stories about her time as a Hollywood actress, and the people...
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Kathy
I love this "Technicolor photo" of Kathryn Beaumont Levine as she poses in an Alice costume, around 1950/51. The kitten is of course a stand in for Dinah.And look at all of the Mary Blair art behind...
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The Genius of Heinrich Kley
I don't know exactly what year this article was published in the German newspaper "Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung". But since the text reveals that Kley had just died, the early 1940s would be a safe...
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From All of Us to All of You
From All of Us to All of You is an animated television Christmas special, produced by Walt Disney Productions and first presented on December 19, 1958 on ABC as part of the Walt Disney Presents...
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Merry Christmas
Remembering a time when a holiday TV program with the Old Maestro (as Floyd Norman calls him) made my Christmas season. When a show like this one ran on our TV, my whole family needed to be absolutely...
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More Old Art School Stuff
During my last semester at at school in Germany I already knew that Disney was producing a film titled The Fox and the Hound. It inspired me to try and keyframe a fox jumping in a circle. My analysis...
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Hercules and Scar
There are times when an animator has to think like a computer.I remember feeling apprehensive when I started work on the scene above. Hercules is posing for a vase painter, "wearing" Scar's skin. As...
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Wilhelm M. Busch, The Wine Guide
A few beautiful Busch spot illustrations from a small German book, titled "Die Weinfibel".The year of publication is unknown to me, there was info in the book.As always I love staging and composition...
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More Pongo and Perdita Poses
These are sections from a model sheet made up of Milt Kahl pre-animation poses of Pongo and Perdita. For some reason this model sheet was never printed and circulated around the studio. Perhaps because...
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Milt's Mr. Toad Drawings
Milt Kahl animated key scenes with characters like MacBadger, Rat and Mole for the Mr. Toad section of the 1949 film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The scene above is one of those scenes. Even...
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Milt Kahl Drawings of Penny
I believe that this cel represents one of the earliest scenes animated featuring Penny from The Rescuers. Ollie Johnston started animation on Penny as she interacts with Rufus, the cat, in the...
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The Reluctant Dragon Feature Film
I love The Reluctant Dragon. The animated short as well as the whole "behind the scenes" 1941 feature film. Disney released the movie as bonus material in glorious HD together with the Blu-Ray edition...
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Lagoon Fish
The most fun sequence in Bedknobs and Broomsticks is arguably the Soccer Game between the Dirty Yellows and the True Blues. But the preceding underwater sequence has its moments as well. As usual the...
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Robin Hood Designs
I have written before about the ever changing design of the character of Robin Hood. Here are two images representing the initial version of Robin and Little John followed by their final designs. This...
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Behind the Scenes of Peter Pan
Kathryn Beaumont visits John Hench in this publicity still. Hench was a color stylist on the movie Peter Pan. Here he is looking at a layout for the the scene below, a gigantic camera move during the...
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An Idea
A few years ago I was fooling around with designs for an animated film that involved a story about the friendship between a boy and a circus elephant.But things happened, and I chose a friendship...
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Milt's Archimedes
This scene with the owl Archimedes from The Sword in the Stone exemplifies Milt Kahl's modern approach to animation. Starting with Sleeping Beauty his drawings show a 2-dimensional graphic quality that...
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Pre-Production Art
Wonderful range of techniques and styles in these visual development pieces from Disney classics.By artists like Mary Blair, Tyrus Wong and Kay Nielsen among others.
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