After the completion of Disneys "101 Dalmatians" there were two different projects in pre-production as possible follow ups .One was titled "The Sword in the Stone" which was develope...
Before I scanned these two drawings for this post (I traced them from Frank and Ollies book Too Funny for Words) I saw something in them that seemed odd.First of all though, these are two absolutely ...
…on how to draw Merryweather, one of the three fairies from Sleeping Beauty.Frank notes on the first sheet, these instructions were probably meant for assistant Dale Oliver.Whats so fascinating about...
That was the name of my second exhibition of wire sculptures at Disney.Originally I had no plans for a show like this one, my mind was on animating King Triton in early 1989.Then one evening a news r...
I did this wire sculpture of Merlin a few years ago.Human subjects are usually difficult to balance, two legs arent enough to hold up a sculpture made out of wire. But the buttom of Merlins cloak hel...
How about this Heinrich Kley beauty?An eerie fantastical underwater scene with some kind of a sea horse, a lagoon type creature and who knows what else. Kley was such a prolific artist, he illustrate...
It was Frank Thomas who said that if you have two characters in one scene who think alike, you have a problem.Of course he is right, it is the contrast in what the characters are thinking that b...
Here is another character Milt Kahl didnt particularly enjoy animating, but as usual he pulled it off beautifully. There was criticism at the time as to why Madame Bonfamille in "The Aristocats&#...
For the live action part of the Disney movie "The Reluctant Dragon" large size character illustrations were needed to dress up the set. The movie opened in June of 1941, so these photos ...
This is an awesome oil painting by German illustrator Heinrich Kley. I believe it is titled "The Race".Most of us know Kley from his delicious pen and ink drawings of anthropomorphic ani...
Within an early version of "Beauty and the Beast" Belle had a little sister, called Clarice.I had a lot of fun doing some rough development on this character. Clarice adored her older sister&...
Look at the strength in this pose above!What a beautiful thing to study, there is this warm personality combined with a great graphic composition. The Fairy Godmother in "Cinderella" changed ...
It feels wrong to have a post without images, but I lost my tech help for one week, so for now Id like to share some thoughts with you on the current state of animation.Recently I had the chance to s...
This scene proves that Milt Kahl was capable of animating most subtle and realistic acting extremely well. Prince Phillip has just fallen off his horse Samson into the water, and he is not amuse...
This is a Fred Moore staging sketch, showing Sneezy (I think) interacting with Snow White.Here we see Freds version of the girl, more cartoony than the final model, which of course is much more reali...
More of Milt Kahls work for "Robin Hood".The first sheet shows designs for Maid Marion and Lady Cluck before animation began.The drawings look like they are just about to "click", mea...
A little late as an "Easter Post", but I hope you will enjoy these drawings of Skippy, his sisters and friend Toby Turtle from "Robin Hood".Milt Kahl drew these development sket...
Thats animator Eric Larson in this beautiful vintage photo, taken around 1938 or 1939, during production of "Pinocchio"Eric is working on Figaro, the cat. As you can see, he surrounds himself...
This is a scene by Milt Kahl which doesnt appear in the final movie "Bambi".It looks to me like the scene was either cut from the film, or it was just a piece of test animation, done before a...
I never met Hal Ambro, but I sure know his work, and I ilke it a lot.He started to work for Disney in 1946. Even though he never reached the status of supervising animator there, his animation can of...
I will be in Montreal for a couple days of classes on June 2 and 3. It will be fun to share my "animated experiences" and cover all aspects of character animation, technical as well as ...
That would be animator Milt Neil, who worked at Disney Studios as a character animator from 1935 to 1944. You can see his work in features like Snow White, Fantasia and Dumbo. Milt also did terr...
For your viewing pleasure, a short story illustrated by Sullivant. The humor is charming, but beware, there is a cruel ending. As usual, every pose of the animals is a gem. Look at the pushed smile o...
I had just flown over to London to join the crew who produced the animation for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". A taxi took me from Heathrow right to the studio in Camden, the north of London.I le...
Theres no way this is going to be a brief post, I have too much good material of this character to share with you. The "King Louie" sequence in Jungle Book is one of my favorites.I love the o...
Just got back from a party, where I saw Marc Davis wife Alice again. She looked great and was in good spirits.So I thought I would post one of her husbands drawings, a sketch that I think quali...
Last year I had the chance to purchase a few original sketches from the estate of Wilhelm M. Busch in Germany.I was sent a disc with images of many works depicting circus scenes. Large oversized draw...
Here are a couple of magazine articles which helped to promote "Alice in Wonderland" for its initial release in July of 1951. They both show a fantastic variety of photos with Kathryn and oth...
Her full name is Kathryn Beaumont Levine, and her friends call her Kathy.I am very proud to be one of them. We recently got together to take a look at some animation roughs of the character of Alice ...
This photo taken during production of "Peter Pan" is interesting to me.You see Frank Thomas working on the scene with Captain Hook, when he is anxiously waiting for Tinker Bell to reveal the ...
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