Bambi Reunion

 

Next to me, Peter Behn (Thumper), Stan Alexander (Flower) and Donnie Dunagan (Bambi). What an honor it was to celebrate these gentlemen at our Christmas Party!

Christmas Party

 

We had a wonderful Christmas Party at my house. Special guests were the voices of BAMBI:

Here we have me, Donnie Dunagan (Bambi), Holly Sedillos (singer of MUSHKA's Lullaby) and film composer extraordinaire John Powell.  

I will post pics of Thumper and Flower ASAP.

Glorious Disney Colors

I have talked and posted before on Disney's color model department. These talented artists created the most appealing and intriguing color concepts for all of those fantastic characters.

Particularly during the 1940s and 1950s those Technicolor hues looked like fresh fruit, und you just wanted to take a bite.

Later on starting with 101 Dalmatians the character color palettes became much more muted, but still very beautiful in their own way.

The Real Roger Rabbit

 

Each time a character is drawn by several animators, different looking versions will appear on the screen. Even after clean up artists try to bring that character "on model" by re-drawing him. 

For example, in The Jungle Book I can tell a a Frank Thomas Mowgli from Milt Kahl or Ollie Johnston. I am sure many of you can do the same.

James Baxter was a young animator when he realized this very phenomenon. James drew this comparison sheet with a variety of Roger Rabbits. I dare you to tell me what animator is behind each version!!

OK...here goes, from left to right: Richard Williams, Simon Wells, Phil Nibbelink, me, and the last one by Matt O'Callaghan (who worked in the LA unit). To tell you the truth, James nailed all of our different versions.