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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
It's always great to discover pre-production or production art from Fantasia. This film benefited from a huge crew, terrific artists, who figured out designs, color and story. And in a great variety of...
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Peter Pan Story Thumbnails
Here you can compare staging and posing sketches to final film frames. These little thumbnails were done based on the storyboard, but with final cutting and continuity in mind.Everything is worked out...
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Peter Pan Story Thumbnails II
Here is part II of the sequence in which Wendy meets Peter Pan in person.Again, pretty astounding how closely the rough thumbnail sketches define the final staging and continuity.
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Gustaf Tenggren
Most of you have heard or read about Swedish illustrator Gustaf Tenggren. He was hired by Disney in 1936 to help develop the art direction for short films like The Ugly Duckling and The Old Mill.He was...
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Fun And Fancy Free
This Disney movie turned 70 years old, a couple of days ago.As you probably know there are two movies in one, two different stories combined into a feature length package.Bongo, the story of a little...
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Golden Poses ?
A little while ago I had an interesting conversation with Frank Thomas' son Ted.He brought something up that I had given some thought to for a while. Ted pointed out that his father's character...
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Sleeping Beauty Press Book 1959
Here is the first half of the vintage Sleeping Beauty press book. It is interesting to see this endless list of promotional partners. From Peanut butter, clothing to the announcement of "The Art of...
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Busch 1962
These marvelous illustrations were published in 1962 in a book that included collected stories about riders and horses. Finding a vintage book with Busch drawings is always such a pleasure. His work is...
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Sword in the Stone Vis Dev
A mix of Bill Peet and Vance Gerry sketches that show personality and environment exploration for The Sword in the Stone. I love Peet's sketch above of Merlin as he takes a nap in a Kem Weber studio...
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Final Color Footage
© Andreas DejaWe now have a complete sequence in final color. I call it the "Montage Sequence" where we watch Sarah bonding and growing up with Mushka, the Siberian tiger. The character poses in this...
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The Jungle Book at 50
Director Woolie Reitherman called The Jungle Book"that little movie". Its 1967 budget was a modest $4 Mill., ( just under $ 30 Mill. in today's dollars).I saw the film way back in Germany during its...
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Snow White Screening
Tomorrow, Saturday Oct. 21, I will be hosting a screening of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.The screening will begin at 1:30pm, at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatre, which is on 6801 Hollywood Blvd.,...
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Aurora
Another beautiful animation drawing by the amazing Marc Davis. This is Princess Aurora, as she tells the Three Fairies about someone she met in the forest. Marc's knowledge of anatomy as well as...
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Versions of Alice
I love Mary Blair's color sketches of Alice. Her chubby arms and legs feel very doll like. I wonder how likable and identifiable this stylized Alice might have been in animation.David Hall's earlier...
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Early Black Cauldron Background
I remember a variety of visual BG development for The Black Cauldron. This beautiful Bg is by Ron Dias. It represent a throwback to old classic Disney, very romantic, and also well executed.Gosh, you...
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This is historical. Ollie Johnston talks about the character relationships between Mowgli, Bagheera and Baloo. Ollie compares them to people we all know. I have used this clip as part of my...
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Merlin and Mim
From Bill Peet's storyboard sketch to final film frame.Frank Thomas animated this section from Sword in the Stone, where Mim in her bossy way explains the rules for the upcoming Wizards' Duel. Frank...
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Duck Pimples
You might wonder who these two characters might be.They are part of an ensemble cast from the Disney 1945 Donald Duck short Duck Pimples.Here's what Wikipedia says about the film:Donald Duck's...
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Milt's Fisherman Bear
One of the greatest scenes in Disney's 1971 release Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Milt Kahl animated the introductory scenes of the Fisherman Bear. Here he pulls back excitedly to find out what this heavy...
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