These pics were taken by Hans Bacher after we had moved out of Disney's original animation studio into a "temporary" facil...

This film viewing contraption, called the Moviola, was in use at Disney for many decades, all the way into the 1980s. In the photo you se...

More pages from the 1947 edition of Bongo, beautifully illustrated by background painter Edgar Starr, who poured his heart and soul i...

Edgar Starr was one of Disney's background painters during the Golden Age of Animation. Among his credits are films like Pinocchi...

Please,  join me in wishing legendary opera star and voice of Sleeping Beauty, Mary Costa a Happy Birthday. Feel free to leave any congra...

The dog characters in Lady & the Tramp were drawn extremely carefully. The design style called for dimensional realism like the fil...

Story sketch artist James Bodrero came up with terrific designs for Fantasia's Pastoral sequence. Particularly the male centaurs...

I really like this charming Disney short from 1952. Bill Peet was the main story artist on Lambert, the Sheepish Lion. Look at this bea...

© Andreas Deja A quick update on my film Mushka . I just finished animating the sequence when Sarah encounters the tiger cub for the f...

It is no secret that the art of German Illustrator Heinrich Kley had a profound influence on Disney's Fantasia . Before the film wen...