Animation Backgrounds: Disney

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Monday, July 11, 2016

unfinished masterpieces

The Jungle Book (Disney, 1967)

These backgrounds show small areas never fully revealed, thus impossible to finish… but even though incomplete, they were too stunning not to share - enjoy!

Thursday, June 30, 2016

The Jungle Book (Disney, 1967)

How about one more from JUNGLE BOOK?

The enchanting storytelling gets a lot of help from these incredible backgrounds, as well as the voice talent and animators!

Baloo teaches Mowgli about "the Bear Necessities" -

Here's the fabulous BG! I got to the very end of its reconstruction and had one tiny section I had to digitally hand paint, as it was never revealed in the scene. This always stretches my abilities (I'm not really an artist) but on completion I think I matched it pretty darn well! There's a slight pan to the right so you never saw this complete BG on the screen - until now!

BARE NECESSITIES

The Jungle Book (Disney, 1967)

A phone call today sent me to THE JUNGLE BOOK DVD to answer a question… and I fell in love with this movie all over again, including the BG art. More to come!

Today, we see this wonderful segment - Baloo crosses the screen, er, jungle, from here:

to here:

Now, for the first time, you can see the entire pan BG revealed. Gorgeous textures!

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee

Alice In Wonderland (Disney, 1951)

Alice decides to scamper through a hollow log…

(Alive vaporized!)

The boys mull it over

(reconstructed pan BG, with the daffy duo overlaid)

(and the reconstructed pan BG without them)

Then, starting here...

they end up here -

and in the process, they prance and bounce, right to left, on this terrific pan BG.

As you've never seen it - digitally re-assembled in its entirety!

Click on the images to see them full size.)

A very merry un-birthday, everyone!

Monday, December 29, 2014

SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS pan B/G

I've been studying the gorgeous B/G art from Mary Poppins for years.

Tonight, looking over the animated section, I had an AHAH moment and realized I had two pieces I could join to create a huge pan B/G - five hours later, it's done.

And yes, I think it's SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS!

Remember to click on it to see the full size version. :)

Friday, December 12, 2014

THE SMALL ONE (Disney 1978)

the marketplace

CAPTAIN HOOK'S SHIP (PETER PAN)

NEVERLAND con'd

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

PETER PAN - NEVERLAND!

A real treat today - digitally reconstructed background art from Disney's PETER PAN!

This artwork is a visual feast - and screams the influence of May Blair. These gorgeous backgrounds predate JUNGLE BOOK by a decade but the design influence is unmistakeable.

Feast your eyes on these!!!

this shot starts with a suspicious looking rock (cel overlay)

then zooms out as the hippo rises from the water!

Here is the background with cel characters digitally erased...

Savor the nuance and subtlety of this piece

Here is the pan B/G from the FOLLOWING THE LEADER sequence

the boys remain steadfast little soldiers on the left!

So you might enjoy a closer look - here below are left and right sections.

Gorgeous stuff, eh?

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

BAMBI Background Art

Today, another digital restoration of art from Bambi.

This is a reconstructed pan BG.

To see the extraordinary detail, click on the images.

I've added larger left and right halves below!

Monday, December 1, 2014

RABBIT'S HUTCH!

I've always loved the background art developed for the WINNIE THE POOH films. It's texture is unlike any other (but seemingly influenced by the Xerox art designs from 101 Dalmatians).

As usual I have digitally composited pan backgrounds so you can see them in a way we never saw them in the films!

Here's a set of beautiful and charming backgrounds from the first WINNIE THE POOH animated short "Winnie The Pooh and the Honey Tree" (1964), which later became part of the compilation feature "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.