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Jungle Encounter
An absolutely charming and unique T. S. Sullivant illustration. And as usual full of surprising poses, expressions and textured like work. A visual treat!
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Steps in the Making of the Jungle Book
Disney created educational panels like these off and on to help promote a new upcoming animated feature. They were hung in the main hallway of the animation building, ground floor, or at the movie...
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Marc Davis Bambi Research
A few sheets with beautiful development drawings for Bambi by Marc Davis were recently offered at S/R Labs auctions.They remind me of what Frank Thomas once said, that without Marc's thorough deer...
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Another Great Marc Davis Sketch
I forgot how long Marc Davis worked on story for Bambi. He told me once, I think it was about five years. Marc skipped Pinocchio and Fantasia in order to focus on the challenge to develop sequences...
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A Pinocchio Story Problem
I remember years ago when I had a conversation about Pinocchio with Frank Thomas.As usual I was gushing over the film and its animation.Frank recounted certain sequences he was involved with in terms...
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Woolie's Gaucho Goofy
Woolie Reitherman's animation of Goofy as a Gaucho in Saludos Amigos, 1943, is astonishing!In this slow motion scene the audience is supposed to find out about the gaucho's hunting technique on...
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Rare Marc Davis Drawings
Here are a few of Marc's drawings from three Disney feature films that haven't been circulated online.A couple of his polished story sketches for Bambi show his thorough understanding of animal anatomy...
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Over 50% in Color
We recently hit a milestone on our production of MUSHKA. We have about 16 min. in final color, including effects, highlights, shadows etc. That's more than 1/2 of the 30 min. film. Color backgrounds...
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Rare Milt Kahl Drawings
Milt Kahl did mostly clean up drawings on the Prince in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.This guy was even more difficult to draw than the title character. As soon as the team found out about Milt's...
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Lounsbery Dogs
Lady & the Tramp is one of those films in which John Lounsbery's talents fired on all cylinders.I would say that after his work on Fantasia (Ben Ali Gator) this is another high in his...
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More Rare Milt Kahl Drawings
These two beautiful clean up drawings from the short film Mickey's Circus, 1936, were likely drawn right on top of Milt Kahl's rough animation.This might have been Milt's first production scene he ever...
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Jock by Ollie Johnston
This is rough animation by Ollie. The character of Jock is responding to Lady who is saddened because Jim Dear had called her "That Dog !"Jock: ("Well, now, Lassie...I wouldna worry mah haid about...
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Hercules in Live Action ?
I found this casting proposal by someone online, but I am not sure if Disney is considering such a project.Still, this lineup for the lead actors is pretty inspired, but I don't know if these actors...
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Mickey at the Walt Disney Family Museum
It is so much fun watching kids (and adults) as they sketch their own version of Mickey Mouse at the W. Disney Family Museum in San Francisco.As I mentioned before I had the pleasure of guest-curating...
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Medusa is Interrupted
While studying the treasure map, Madame Medusa is suddenly disturbed by loud noise. She pauses for a moment before getting up from her chair to proceed toward the direction the commotion is coming...
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More Color!!!
    © Andreas DejaEach new color scene for our film MUSHKA feels like a Christmas gift. Background paintings and character levels combined result in gorgeous images. These colors here are still too...
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Ward Kimball Article
This is an article from STORYBOARD magazine, 1991.Ward is in good form here, though real Kimball fans probably won't find too much new information.Earlier this year this book by Todd James Pierce came...
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Remembering Eric Larson
Photo by Dave BlockIt's not easy finding original animation drawings by Disney animation mentor to so many, Eric Larson. So I am grateful again to my friend Wil for providing scans for most of these...
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1994
Mouse by Brian Ferguson, Simba by Mark Henn and Scar by me.https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2013/07/drawing-lions.html
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Peregoy's Jungle Book II
An interesting pre-production color sketch by Walt Peregoy. As you can see the style is much looser here than the eventual final look of the film. I am not sure if Peregoy thought this should be the...
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