I recently came across these two beautiful sketches by Milt Kahl. They show Jim Dear and Darling from the film Lady and the Tramp , engaged...

All those color key paintings by Eyvind Earle for Disney's Sleeping Beauty are breathtaking. Simple, strong composition that emp...

These gorgeous storyboard sketches by Bill Peet as well as the preliminary background/color studies (presumably by Mary Blair) show that th...

This is my cat Joan in 1991. She served as an early model to study cat anatomy, because we were just getting ready to animate big cats. ...

This photo was taken in the early 1980s. Didier Ghez posted this pic a while ago on his blog. We are celebrating master layout artis...

I am sure you've seen some of this art work before, but it is good to compare Pinocchio's development beats in one row. I don't...

A bunch of Disney rough animation drawings to show the various drawing styles of the animators. As usual Ollie Johnston has a light tou...

A beautiful composition featuring two satyr type characters admiring a lady, who seems displeased at being starred at. I like the muted ...

Just a fun comparison between an early version of Jose Carioca (possibly drawn by J.P. Miller during the El Groupo trip to South America...

  There are many hilarious moments in Disney's 1949 film  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow . Frank Thomas and Milt Kahl animate...

I haven't posted a vintage Disney pencil test in ages. The main reason for this is, they take a lot of time to put together.  T...

Wouldn't it be great to resurrect this type of film making? Finding a great story that needed to be told with hand drawn animated chara...