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Bill Peet's Dumbo 27 Aug 2013 | 11:33 am
A young Bill Peet sketches elephants at a circus, backstage around 1940. He ended up doing story work on critically important personality sequences like those playful scenes with Dumbo and his mother...
Cruella as Medusa ? 25 Aug 2013 | 11:11 am
During the early development phase of The Rescuers Ken Anderson gave some serious thought to the idea for a Cruella De Vil comeback. He made these sketches to experiment with the concept of Cruella as...
Getting to know Milt Kahl 23 Aug 2013 | 07:49 am
I originally prepared these interview clips as part of a presentation for the 2009 Milt Kahl Tribute at the Academy. This is a series of brief, but fascinating statements which reveal Milt's passion a...
London & Peter Pan 21 Aug 2013 | 11:03 am
I am writing this post slightly jet lagged, having just gotten back to LA from a week in London (after a few days in Hamburg, Germany). The weather was beautiful for outdoor activities, so I skipped ...
TS Sullivant 7 3 Aug 2013 | 11:31 am
What an amazing Sullivant cartoon, one of many based on the story of Noah's Ark. I am off to Germany for the Hamburg Animation Award event, so there won't be any new posts for a week and a half. In t...
Gag Drawing 1 Aug 2013 | 12:55 pm
You've probably seen some of those vintage gag drawings that were done at Disney way back. They usually poke fun at something that had happened between animators, occasionally even Walt was portrayed ...
Fred Moore from the Back 30 Jul 2013 | 10:40 am
As far as I'm concerned there aren't enough photos of Fred Moore around. This is the guy who changed the look and feel of character animation during the 1930s in a big way. The photo above was taken...
Bambi Vis Dev Art 28 Jul 2013 | 03:04 pm
In their 1990 book Bambi, The Story and the Film, Frank and Ollie don't identify the artist who produced these magnificent poetic renderings. They probably didn't remember. The use of light gives the...
Busch Circus Sketches 26 Jul 2013 | 06:00 am
More spectacular gesture drawings by German artist Wilhelm M. Busch. Throughout his career as a prolific book illustrator, he kept going to the circus to study animals interacting with their trainers...
From Live Action to Final Frame 24 Jul 2013 | 11:26 am
These black and white photostats show clearly how the actors' performance influenced the Disney animators. To me it is always fascinating to find out what parts were kept and which ones were changed. ...
