This incredible hi/res photo surfaced online recently. Walt Disney is dropping by Eyvind Earle's office, it looks like a late afternoon meeting sometime during the late 1950s. Walt loosened his tie, and his right arm is leaning on one of Earle's exploratory paintings, which is pictured below. Casual photos from behind the scenes of Disney animated films are rare, and this image takes you right back in time when Sleeping Beauty was in production.
Heritage Auctions recently offered beautiful cel set ups from the film. The first two images don't show matching cels with background, but still reveal the amazing color choices for the character cels.
They read clearly over the highly detailed, stylized BGs.
That movie is very interesting, colors, the animation.
ReplyDeleteEyvind Earle's work, from Disney to post-Disney, is some of my favorite. His motif demonstrates a superb balance of line and area, black and color. I just love it.
ReplyDeleteThis movie for me is still the pinnacle of Disney animation. absolutely gorgeous and the end of an era.
ReplyDeleteGreat shot! The picture right behind Walt's head is on display at the moment up at Forest Lawn museum as pat of their Eyvind Earle exhibition. Earle's life story quite incredible, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteWow, that was the one that blew me away and wanted to be part of everything Disney was creating. Love all of Marc Davis' work on human anatomy and movement. But Eyvind Earle's backgrounds were beautifully detailed and colored. We'll never see such amaIng work like that again.
ReplyDeleteWow, that was the one that blew me away and wanted to be part of everything Disney was creating. Love all of Marc Davis' work on human anatomy and movement. But Eyvind Earle's backgrounds were beautifully detailed and colored. We'll never see such amaIng work like that again.
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