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Sword in the Stone Storybook Art
These incredible storybook illustrations are by Al White, who contributed to many Golden Books for Disney as well as other companies. Just look at these gorgeous colors!
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Robin Hood at 50
Despite being criticized for its story treatment and its re-use of animation, Robin Hood's popularity seems to have grown over the years. The film inspired projects like Zootopia, Sing and many other...
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MUSHKA Score Release
Go to Animation Magazine for more exciting infos about our MUSHKA film score release:https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/mushka-original-score-debuts-friday-exclusive-track/Listen to a sample of...
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The Art of Walt Disney, Signed and Illustrated
Books on Disney animation are a real treasure. And Christopher Finch's 1973 edition of "The Art of Walt Disney" is no exception. This was the first Disney book I owned way back. I had to have the...
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Maid Marion
This is Maid Marion's response to Robin Hood's marriage proposal."Marion. my love, will you marry me?", "Oh darling, I thought you'd never (ask me)." Milt Kahl animated this close up scene. As usual...
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ASIFA Screening, Monday 12/4
Members can find more info in the latest ASIFA Weekly. To become a Member and RSVP for this screening, please email info@asifa-hollywood.org.
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Heinrich Kley, Silberhochzeit
A beautiful Heinrich Kley ink drawing, with the translated title Silver Wedding Anniversary. It iscurrently for sale here:https://kunkelfineart.de/artwork/die-silberhochzeit/The thing with Kley is...
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Fabrizio Mancinelli
Fabrizio wrote the score for MUSHKA. It is a magnificent score! Here you see him with Richard M Sherman during a musical "brainstorm", a few years ago. This pic was taken at my home. I do own a piano,...
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MUSHKA Model Sheets
These are key animation drawings from individual scenes, arranged for model sheets.
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Puss 'N Boots 1994
My first attempt at illustrating a childrens' book. Geezz..almost 30 years ago. Here are a few pages.For the main character's design I started out by drawing my own cat, and went from there. The...
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Eric Larson Pics
Over the years I have talked about Eric Larson quite a bit. Eric was heading up Disney's animation training program during the 1970s and for part of the 1980s. He was also the person who hired me to...
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Jungle Book...Again
We had such an interesting variety of materials for the Jungle Book exhibition at the Walt Disney Family Museum.Obviously lots of original art, pencil tests, video interviews and more.This is a...
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MacBadger Ruffs
You can't win them all. Recently Heritage Auctions offered this fine group of rough animation drawings of the character Angus McBadger from the 1949 film The Wind in the Willows. The auction item's...
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Patrick Mate does Mushka
I just found out by accident that my friend Patrick Mate posted this illustration on his blog in November of last year. At that time we had a nice chat after the MUSHKA screening at CTN.He added:...
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Joy
Can't tell you how happy I am about MUSHKA's musical success. Richard M. Sherman kicked off our musical journey years ago by contributing the film's melodious theme as well as a beautiful song....
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A masterful Performance
This section from the 1938 short The Brave Little Tailor is often accredited to Fred Moore. Not so. Fred did work on later scenes where Mickey leaves the castle reluctantly, and when he is fighting the...
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Ward Kimball 110
Ward Kimball was born 110 years ago.Here is another pic taken during my last visit to his house in 2002. At age 88 he was still curious, passionate and of course...funny. Disney was so lucky to have...
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From Cruella to Disneyland
I remember years ago I just had to ask Marc Davis about his departure from Disney Animation after having animated the incredible character of Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians. At that time he was at...
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