When the film  Sleeping Beauty followed Lady and the Tramp in 1959, audiences were in for a surprise. All of a sudden the styling, for bot...

Some of you might not be aware that in 2019 Disney published a two book edition called: Marc Davis In His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney...

  Disney Feature Animation posted this amazing drawing a while back. It reminded me of what Milt Kahl told a young animator (not me) : ...

I just came across this group photo from a few years ago at the Academy. We had a great panel that night with artists and voice talents to c...

I recently found this low res photo online of Ollie Johnston as he is animating a scene with Johnny Appleseed. Behind him, pinned on a board...

A beautiful character layout sketch of Lady is being offered currently at Heritage Auctions. Frank Thomas drew this lovely pose of Lady as h...

The Disney Nature film African Cats premiered in theatres in  2011. Way back I posted some artwork I had created based on scenes from the f...

A few posts back I wrote about the challenges some cel inkers and painters might have had when dealing with Milt Kahl scenes. It was in fact...

Today is Milt Kah's birthday number 116. He was eight years younger than Walt Disney. I don't have much to add to what I have been s...

Some of you might be familiar with Barry Humphries' bigger than life creation of Dame Edna Everage. I first became aware of this charact...

A beautiful Fred Moore sketch of Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice is currently being offered on Ebay. I don't think Fred an...

I keep discovering new, unpublished Fred Moore drawings from the South American movies all the time. Fred was in high demand when it came to...

Crazy with the Heat is a Goofy/Donald short from 1947. Ed Aardel was the lead animator on the film. I remember seeing it as a kid in a theat...

A few days ago I had the pleasure of spending time with recent Oscar winners  Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani. Their animated short film...

Quite a few years ago I got a call from Ollie Johnston, and he asked me if I could swing by his home and bring a few Fred Moore drawings wit...

  These pics were taken at Disney's ARL, Animation Research Library. The color drawing of Scar is the very first drawing I did of the ch...