Animation Backgrounds

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...

I get emails from all over the world asking how I digitally recreate animation backgrounds. I was looking at MARY POPPINS (yes, again) and f...

Here's a surprise! I thought I'd digitally reconstructed just about every possible MARY POPPINS background... until this afternoon. ...

In a final installment of previously unposted MARY POPPINS background art, we pick up where we left off, during the carousel horse sequence ...

With the carousel horses off and running, we see some beautiful English countryside.

Here is art easily overlooked in MARY POPPINS, the beautiful backgrounds in the carousel scene. The first image is the carousel set piece, w...

After a brief look at SNOW WHITE backgrounds, we return to MARY POPPINS. With Mary and Bert seated and ready for afternoon tea, our little p...

In yesterday's post, these trees were in the background... of the background! Here's a completely different rendition from the next ...

Originally, hospitable animated turtles ferry a wobbly Bert and the always composed Mary Poppins across the pond. It's another amazing t...

This scene takes us through the forest to the river's edge. As the deer remain in the entire first shot, they remain here, as well as a ...

This first B/G is the farm gate where the "umbrella flight" begins. The second B/G is a partially reconstructed pan B/G. It took m...

Another highlight of the JOLLY HOLIDAY sequence is the visit to the farm with animated singing animals! In the first re-created background, ...

Happy Valentine's Day! I am posting the POPPINS B/Gs in consecutive order as they appeared in the film. Since today is all about love, i...

Right after Jane and Michael jump into the chalk drawings, they go in search of the carousel. This is my first of an entire new set of digit...

Even when a day goes by that I don't post, you can bet I am at work digitally replicating background art! I have some real treats coming...

Here is the final set of backgrounds I've re-created from MARY POPPINS penguin dance sequence. The clean "stage" is artfully r...

POPPINS penguins danced their way into our hearts in 1964. Like many in showbiz, they are both performers and waiters! Here are two views of...