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Cruella in Curlers
What an incredible visual development piece from 101 Dalmatians.Cruella de Vil is reading the papers about the dognapping. This experimental cel set up shows her in a round bed with a snake motif. Red,...
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Hockey Homicide
There have been quite a few great Disney animators who brought the character of Goofy to life.Art Babbitt developed him during the mid 1930ies as a type who thought long and hard about something, and...
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TS Sullivant 7
How about starting the week off with Sullivant cartoons?I said about everything I can in regards to his unparalleled work, no need for more analysis.Any political statement here is a reflection of the...
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Bill Peet's Song of the South
Bill Peet was a very interesting artist. He had the most fun when working on projects he was in charge of as far as story develpment. During his long career at Disney there were three such projects....
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Hercules
Barry Johnson, a very talented story artist who I worked with on a few projects, posted this partial rough model sheet on his blog recently. I had forgotten about it, but it reminded me to do a post on...
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Medusa on the Phone
This is one of many great close up scenes of Medusa animated by Milt Kahl.At the beginning of the scene she has just changed expressions, her mood went from gleeful anticipation to angry...
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Ken Anderson Vis Dev
Ken Anderson was was an artist who enjoyed exploring environments as well as characters for Disney films. In his days that was somewhat of an exception, most artists at the studio focused on one of...
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Fantasia Maquettes
I have always been in awe of Disney's character model department. Joe Grant was the head of this unit during the Golden Age Of Animation. Not only were rough model sheets produced here, but also three...
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Joe Grant Sketch
I don't have much time tonight for a post, still, I want to put up something.I find this sketch showing early versions of Pinocchio and Honest John absolutely fascinating.Evil and innocence in one...
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Мушка Update
It's been very busy around here, making a movie!The story of "Mushka" is roughly storyboarded all the way through. It's a great feeling to be able to follow the whole story visually for the first time...
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Pierre Lambert's Sleeping Beauty
I need to recommend this new coffee tablet/art book by Pierre Lambert, who in recent years has published several extraordinary volumes on Disney animated features.For now Sleeping Beauty is only...
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Character Designs from Long Ago
Going through my archives I keep finding drawings I didn't know I had.Like these peculiar design sheets that bring back a lot of memories.Way back I was on the original crew for Oliver & Company....
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Mel Shaw's Beauty & the Beast
Mel Shaw was a very cool guy.He was funny, and he could draw everything…really well…really fast! He was a wizard with pastels.I first saw his art when I started at Disney in 1980. His office was...
View ArticleTigger Outtake
These are a few scenes with Tigger and Pooh that ended up being cut from the feature film Winnie The Pooh. As I mentioned before Tigger's entrance used to be very different from the final version. Just...
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Happy Birthday!
Today is Kathryn Beaumont Levine's birthday.All best wishes, and remember, Kathy, tomorrow is your un-birthday!!
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Pinocchio Art
Just like the personality animation in Disney's Pinocchio the world that was created for the characters to live in is spectacular. Many different locations had to be explored, from an Alpine village...
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Busch Spot Illustrations
Wilhelm M. Busch captures a specific mood or situation with an economy of lines in these charming small size drawings. They were published in the 1960 German book "Zuweilen Lohnt es sich zu Weilen" (It...
View ArticleThe Rescuers Story Meeting
Even though the cameras are rolling, but it feels like story artist/writer Larry Clemmons is genuinely presenting a sequence from The Rescuers. He is showing storyboards involving the introduction of...
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Drawing Lions
…not at the zoo, but in the office!Before production began on Lion King, the studio came up with a great training program on how to draw the animals that would appear as characters in the movie. We...
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The Last Time I Saw Kimball…
…was a few weeks before he passed away.Ward died on this day in 2002. It's shocking to realize that he has been gone that long, it feels more like just a few short years ago.I drove over to his house...
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