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Just Keep Going!
This kind of thing happens to me once in a while (and it just did again):Before animating a new scene I plan out the staging and acting of the character(s) in thumbnail form.Once I feel that this is...
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The Shock of the New
When I first heard that Walt Disney didn't like the look of 101 Dalmatians at all, I couldn't believe it.What a great film, and watching the animation in rough form added even more life to the...
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Bambi Academy Event
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the release of Disney's Bambi, the Academy in LA is going to host a panel discussion, and I feel honored to be a part of it. This event will take place on May 15.I...
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Fred Moore's Three Caballeros
I don't have hi res files for these spectacular drawings by Fred Moore, but even at this resolution the two sketches are jumping of the screen! A duck, a rooster and a parrot. Three different birds,...
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Sleeping Beauty Article
Pageant Magazine published this article to help promote Disney's Sleeping Beauty. It is not very in-depth, but it does include some artwork I haven't seen before. One of the final book illustrations...
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Pinocchio Water
I recently did a post on "Drawn Water" in Disney films. Here are a few images from Pinocchio showing various stages of production, concept art, story sketch, a cel set up (below) and final frames.All...
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George Darling
Many of you know that the father in the film Peter Pan was largely animated by John Lounsbery.Milt Kahl animated the character in the final sequence of the movie. He kept the animation subtle and...
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Bambi Academy Tribute
Great evening last night at the Academy.Host Leonard Maltin led the panel, and it showed how much knowledge and appreciation he has for the film. While Disney art director Paul Felix and myself...
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Kley in Color
Some extraordinary Heinrich Kley pieces were offered and sold recently at Kunkel Fine Art.Drawing treasures from about a century ago. What joy to study these master drawings.Here is the link to the...
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Madame Mim as an Elephant
Here are a few color frame grabs from a scene, animated by John Lounsbery. During the wizard's duel Madame Mim has turned herself into an elephant as she attempts to crush Merlin. At the moment she...
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More on Cleworth's Dragon
I posted about animator Eric Cleworth before regarding his work on the dragon fight sequence from Sleeping Beauty. It is a powerful piece of animation. Woolie Reitherman directed this section of the...
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Road Rage
Another great Madame Medusa scene by the one and only Milt Kahl.Here she is on her way to the airport to take the next flight to Devil's Bayou. Medusa has to take matters into her own hands, since...
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Walt Disney comes to the Valley
I love this cover illustration from Valley Progress magazine, October 1939.The Disney characters look in their prime, as they announce a brand-new home for them in Burbank.The studio complex was still...
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From House Cats to Tigers
This was a fun exercise I did a while ago at Tina Price's Center Stage Gallery in Burbank.We drew grown house cats as well as a couple of kittens that day. After doing this for a while I asked...
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Two M. Blairs
A couple of rarely seen Mary Blair studies for Cinderella. Bold, brilliant and ahead of its time.
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Subtle Action
Another beautiful scene by Milt Kahl.This is sequence 2, scene 118. "So, I am going to be your tutor." Merlin proclaims to Wart.The wizard opens a book, before proceeding to clean his glasses. The main...
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Mushka Poster Idea
This is a "rough" idea for a poster for my film Mushka by Peter Moehrle. Train travel is an important part of the film, and this image certainly represents that. Peter did refine this design according...
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Miscellaneous Bambi
Some of you might have watched the Bambi Milt Kahl pencil test I posted a while ago. It was his rough animation of a scene which does not appear in the movie. A few days ago I came across these photos...
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Friar Tuck
I love publicity photos like this one, where you see the voice actor and the animated character in one picture.Andy Devine voiced the character of Friar Tuck in Disney's Robin Hood, and you can see how...
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An Ollie Johnston Masterpiece
One of the greatest acting/comedy scenes in Disney Animation.That's actor Don Barclay as Mr. Smee pretending to give Captain Hook a shave. Of course Smee doesn't realize that he is actually shaving the...
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