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Disney's Christmas Carol 1957
From Mc'Calls magazine, many years before the animated Mickey's Christmas Carol.My guess is that the images were sketched by Bill Peet and then painted by one of the studio's background painters (some...
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Frank Thomas and Dalmatians
Great publicity photo of Frank drawing a live Pongo at the studio. This pic was taken either during or toward the end of production of 101 Dalmatians. There are finished cel set-ups pinned on the story...
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Ollie's Mowgli
Ollie Johnston animated practically the whole "Bear Necessities" song sequence from The Jungle Book. He had such a natural, instinctive feeling when it came to developing Baloo and Mowgli's...
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Bald Mountain Art
A few pieces of art from "Night on Bald Mountain" that were sold by Heritage Auctions last year.This segment from Fantasia remains animations' most nightmarish, astounding, horrific and beautiful...
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More Ken O'Brien Roughs
I've written about animator Ken O'Brien before. On Lady & the Tramp he had the ungrateful task of bringing the human characters of Jim Dear and Darling to life. They were both based on live action...
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Designs for The Three Good Fairies
These 1950s xeroxes come from Ollie Johnston's estate. He labelled them:Don DaGradi character designs. I am not sure that these are by DaGradi, they look more like Tom Oreb sketches to me.In any case,...
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Costume Designs for Sleeping Beauty
Marc Davis loved doing research for any given project he was involved with. All of these pages show his drawings. I imagine Marc had a whole bunch of books on medieval art and costumes nearby for...
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Just a Great Drawing
Ever since I saw a publicity photo of a young Milt Kahl holding a drawing of Brer Rabbit, I realized that this man is an extraordinary artist.There was nobody, at Disney or anywhere else, who drew like...
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Realism before Caricature/Animation
These Ollie Johnston drawings popped up on Ebay recently. They are life drawings of either a Dalmatian or Ollie's own dog. I can tell from the drawing style that they were done during the latter part...
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A Harper Goff Mystery
Sadly I never met Harper Goff, an artist who contributed in so many ways to Walt Disney's "mid century success".He met Walt in 1951 in London in a model-making shop. They both wanted to purchase the...
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Early Book Cover Idea
This was an idea for the cover of my NINE OLD MEN book. For various reasons it didn't make the cut. It would make for a nice poster though.
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One More...
Here's another cover idea for my NINE OLD MEN book, designed by the multi talented Matthieu Saghezchi. I really like this one. But I totally appreciate your comments about preferring the final cover...
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Cruella's Last Scene
A couple of drawings from what might be Marc Davis' last scene he ever animated. It is Cruella's last scene in 101 Dalmatians. Her car had collides with Jasper and Horace's truck. Now she gives the two...
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Classic Disney Animation Roughs
Rough drawings from various Disney productions offered at recent a animation auctions.I always find it interesting to see individual drawing styles by the animators. Marc Davis drew Maleficent very...
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Edgar in a Panic
This is the second half of a scene, in which Edgar, the butler realizes that he might be in trouble. After kidnapping the cats he had left behind his hat and umbrella at the scene of the crime.Milt...
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Anastasia
A beautiful rough animation drawing by Ollie Johnston. It looks to me that this scene was based on live action footage. Many scenes with the stepsisters in Cinderella were handled in a cartoony way,...
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Words of Wisdom
...from Don Graham, Disney's prime art teacher during the Golden Age of animation. All of the animators valued his classes enormously. This is a magazine article from December of 1940.
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Prince and Dragon
I posted about this dramatic sequence from Sleeping Beauty before. Here is some more material showing aspects of the production process.Actor Ed Kemmer (1921 - 2004) acted out action scenes for...
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More Wilhelm M. Busch
Can't get enough of the extraordinary work by German Illustrator Wilhelm M. Busch.The compositions, the intense search for portraying human anatomy in its most fascinating way...so much to admire....
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More of Milt's Penny
I created these "model sheets" of Penny scenes animated by Milt Kahl...a long time ago.Way back when production began on Oliver & Company I started doing experimental animation of the character of...
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