I love photos that show animation artist at work during the medium's golden age. It's always a thrill to find new pics that take you back to a time when animation was this incredible, handcrafted art form.
Lisa Davis (Anita) and Eric Larson studying a Dalmatian.
Hal King working on one of the original Winnie the Pooh shorts.
Frank Thomas checking rough inbetweens for one of his Pinocchio scenes.
Walt Peregoy with a few of his color designs for The Sword in the Stone.
Kathryn Beaumont acting as Alice during the Caterpillar sequence.
Retta Scott animating a Centaurette scene for Fantasia.
Marge Champion is being filmed as Snow White. The person in the foreground looks like Art Babbit to me.
An ink and paint artist working on a Pecos Bill cel.
A cel painter finishing a cel with Aurora.
Walt Disney during a lunch meeting at Disneyland. I recognize John Hench in the back and Marc Davis in front.
So impressed you can ID these fellas just by the backs of their heads :)
ReplyDeleteMost of the studios I've worked at don't even bother putting print outs of the artwork on the walls any more. I do think it makes people treat their own work more coldly and with less pride, and it shows in the end results, in my opinion
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ReplyDeleteOn that photo of Retta Scott, I find it pretty surprising of the first woman animator animating really cute scenes with the centaurettes in "Fantasia" that would go on to animate those vicious hunting dogs in "Bambi". Feminine versatility at the center of genius.
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