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Jungle Book Pencil Animation
The clip starts right when Baloo sees Mowgli for the first time. He notices the kid sitting on the ground and reacts to something he's never seen before in the Jungle.This animation assignment...
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Archery Tournament Characters
These wonderful character studies for the movie Robin Hood were drawn by Milt Kahl.Ken Anderson again provided rough sketches first, and Milt refined the designs.To me these are among the best looking...
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Dalmatian Art
The more I think about it, the stronger I feel that "101 Dalmatians" is the most modern of all Disney animated features. Artistically this is the peak, right here. A film which embraces modernism and...
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Wartime Short Films
Many of you know that the Disney Studios produced a number of propaganda animated shorts during WWII.In "The Winged Scourge" the Seven Dwarfs demonstrate how to fight the spread of mosquito born...
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This is an interesting mini lecture by Disney layout artist and art director Ken O'Connor on how to cheat perspective effectively.Ken worked on many of the Disney classics and shorts for a period of...
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Beauty and the Beast Outtakes
I was looking through my files and found these design drawings I did way back for the early version of "Beauty and the Beast". The scans are xeroxes colored with markers.At that time we had Maurice's...
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Robin Hood as a Stork
Ken Anderson drew this terrific concept sketch of Maid Marian and Robin Hood, disguised as a stork. I love the difference in hight between the characters, it makes the staging more interesting than...
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Joe Rinaldi
Joe Rinaldi was one of Disney's great story artists. He was a very gifted draughtsman, too, and his boards are a pleasure to study. As I mentioned before, because of the appeal and those confident...
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Farm Animals
I believe these colorful story sketches for the film Mary Poppins are the work of Don DaGradi.They sure foreshadow the movie's rich Technicolor look.According to songwriter extraordinaire Richard...
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Nanny
That is character actor Don Barkley, who provided live action reference of the character Nanny for Disney's 101 Dalmatians. He also acted out scenes with the Badun Jasper and the TV character Dirty...
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First Mama Odie Test
A while back I posted a Mama Odie experimental scene, but this one was the very first animation I did with her. When I was doing the rough pose test I still saw the character with chubby arms and...
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Robin Hood & Little John in Drag
Milt Kahl sure likes a good challenge.When Robin Hood and Little John are running to catch up with Prince John's coach, they also put on gipsy clothes at the same time to disguise themselves. The...
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James Bodrero
©LIFEJames Bodrero (in the center of the photo) could draw horses.And Walt Disney knew this, that's why he...
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Three Tigers...
…by three different artists. The first one is by Heinrich Kley. I purchased it quite a few years ago during a visit to Munich.My first impression of this piece was straight forward realism. But the...
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Bernard & Bianca
What a challenge this must have been. How do you design interesting looking mice for a new Disney animated feature, produced in the mid seventies?Over the years animation studios had used an endless...
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More Disney Staging
Here are a few more staging studies I did a while ago. All of them fantastic examples of outstanding draughtsmanship with focused arrangements of shapes and lines. Milt Kahl drew most of them except...
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Marc Davis & Frank Thomas on Walt Disney, Acting Coach
Another excerpt from a UK TV show featuring the life of Walt Disney.In this clip Marc Davis and Frank Thomas describe what an asset Walt was when it came to getting a hold of an animated character. I...
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Ken Hultgren
Ken Hultgren lived a short but very productive life. He started his career in 1936 at Disney , where he eventually became an animator on the short film Farmyard Symphony. Hultgren then moved to the...
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Vance Gerry & Ollie Johnston
Story artist Vance Gerry came up with these beautiful sketches in which he explored the bond between Penny and Rufus from The Rescuers. Vance always drew from the insight out, meaning that what...
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Behind the Scenes of "Pinocchio"
How about a little time travel to the late 1930ies? The Disney artists are finishing up their work on Disney's second animated feature Pinocchio.Joe Grant's character model department produced small...
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