I love Joe Rinaldi's story sketches. Much like his colleague Bill Peet, on top of his superb storytelling he worked out camera angles, staging, terrific character poses and expressions as well as color mood. As I said before, sometimes it is difficult to distinguish Rinaldi's sketches from Peet's. The drawings are deceivingly simple, the main idea for each sketch is boiled down to its essence. Everything reads instantly, which makes for excellent communication while watching the film in story board form.
All sketches are from recent Heritage Auctions.
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ReplyDeleteThese are so interesting! Don and I will have some previously unseen Rinaldi character concepts for the aborted Wizard Of Oz scene Walt was planning for Storybook Land in 1959 in the new Disneyland book that will be out next month. He did a ton of these!
ReplyDeleteWhen you're right, you're right. It's hard to tell who did those storyboards, whether its Rinaldi or Peet.
ReplyDeleteHi Andreas, I was thinking of picking up this drawing, and I just wanted to ask if you can confirm if it's one of yours please, if possible?
ReplyDeleteI think it does look like yours, and the hand writing too, but just to check;
https://flip-gallery.com/products/lilo-stitch-lilo-original-production-drawing-walt-disney
That is my drawing. First pass animation. :)
DeleteThanks so much for the help, I ordered it!
DeleteI'm really glad to have found it, and nicely affordable for me too
How it is that so much of this type of work, including animation drawings end up in private hands? I'm surprised that this isn't in the Disney archives.
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