Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Long Lost Model Sheets
Sunday, July 21, 2024
MUSHKA Music Video
We made a music video featuring Richard Sherman's "Mushka's Lullaby".
The wonderful Holly Sedillos is featured during her actual recording. The amazing Synchron Stage Orchestra Vienna is playing the music.
Have a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAuegQPcmT0
The song was arranged by the great Fabrizio Mancinelli, who also provided the film's score.
Negotiations regarding MUSHKA's distribution have only just begun.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
About Scar
Monday, June 10, 2024
Shere Khan and Kaa II
I talked about this sequence from the Jungle Book before. Here Shere Khan interrogates Kaa, the python, about the man cub. The storyboards were drawn by Vance Gerry and Floyd Norman.
Again I am utterly impressed with Milt Kahl's staging of the two characters. He takes the main idea from the story sketch and draws them in a way that creates a strong visual connection between them. You can see in those rough lines of the tiger that weren't tied down (because those areas are off screen) how hard Milt worked to get the drawing, the shapes and the overall staging just right. Absolute perfection!
Here is the link to a previous post with more of tiger/snake staging masterpieces:
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Richard Sherman Interview
Thursday, May 23, 2024
A Milt Kahl Sketch Explained
Recently I had the good fortune to purchase this beautiful sketch by Milt Kahl. It was part of the Marc Davis Auction at Heritage. So what the heck is going on here visually?
I remember seeing the drawing framed in Marc and Alice's home years ago. At that time Alice explained: The woman portrayed is Alice's mother Mildred. Marc and Milt Kahl had been colleagues as well as best friends for many years. Alice thought it was high time for her mother to meet Milt. But beforehand Alice warned her mom over the phone that this friend of the Davis' often used vulgar language in his conversations. During the actual visit everybody got along great. Then there was Mildred's poodle who exhibited "romantic feelings" toward one of Milt's legs. The next day Alice called her mom again, this time to apologize for some of Milt's profanities. She responded by saying that she thought he was perfectly charming... and if he couldn't use any bad language, he would not be able to speak at all.
True story. So on her upcoming birthday Milt sent Mildred this sketch. After her passing Marc and Alice ended up with the drawing.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Indian Wildlife
A little while ago, while I was working on the Jungle Book exhibition for the WDFM, I had the idea to come up with sketches of the actual animals being portrayed in the film. The set is still not complete yet, but here are the first three.