Lady and the Tramp BG's

Check out these moody and beautiful backgrounds form Lady and the Tramp, more of them over at the Animation Backgrounds blog.Man I wish I could paint like this!

 

  

  

Disney's Glago's Guest Clip

 

You can see a clip from this new Disney short here. I guess its about...aliens in Russia? Hey, kinda like the X-Files! I am liking the stylized CG hair...interested to see where this one goes. (Still not cartoony enough for me though.)

David Hall's Alice Boards

Thad K. has been nice enough to assemble a .zip file of some incredible Alice in Wonderland storyboards. Go check it out and leave him some love. Thanks Thad!

New Disney Book on Story

Has anyone got any info on this book? It is available for pre-order on Amazon and it sounds like it's going to be awesome, but I haven't head anything about it. (Not even a cover image yet.)

Walt Disney Animation Studios The Archive Series: Story (Hardcover)

Product Description
With an introduction by John Lasseter and very little else in the way of words, this first book in The Archive Series lavishly showcases the most brilliant story artwork created by such luminaries as Bill Peet, Don DaGradi, Joe Rinaldi, Roy Williams, Ub Iwerks, Burny Mattison, and Vance Gerry for films ranging from Steamboat Willie and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Alice in Wonderland and One Hundred and One Dalmatians. The art will be displayed in its full glory with all the notes, flaws, and hole-punches that were so much a part of the story development process. Featuring the best examples of story artmany never published before as well as some pieces by unidentified artists, Story will be a must-have art book for collectors, artists, and Disney fans.

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Disney Editions (October 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423107233

224 pages of classic Disney story art?? Yes, please. And the best part about it is that it's going to be a series! Sweeeet!

First Footage of Bolt

It's not much, but there it is. We'll probably get a full trailer when Wall E comes out at the end of the month. Remember when this movie was directed by Chris Sanders and looked like this:






Ahhh, those were the days. Here's hoping this movie is still good!

Psychedelic Alice

From Buzzfeed: A strangely compelling electronica song (and video) composed of sounds from the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland. Made by a 19-year-old in Australia, “Alice” kind of lulls you into a state of semi-consciousness filled with Cheshire cats and flowers wielding batons.



I love this. Download the MP3 (and 2 other Alice-related songs) here.

Donald Duck - Donald's Diary

This Donald short takes place in San Francisco! And it's got great background design and color.

Amiga - Disney Animation Studio (1990)

Ohhhh man how I'd love to play with this. Look at that 'morgue' full of Disney reference!! I think with a little hunting I can find this software and an Amiga emulator...

Vintage: The Wizard's Duel

The Sword in the Stone is one of my favorite Disney films. Well, that's a lie...I really only like certain parts of it. Namely, the part with the squirrels, the part where Merlin packs his house into a bag, and this part...the wizard's duel. I found this at a flea market on the Cape a few months ago and snatched it up for the awesome illustrations inside. I've created a .pdf of the book and uploaded it to Scribd. That site is awesome! As you can see, (I hope), it allows you to share documents easily. I would like to start some sort of animation library on there, much like a Flickr pool, except for documents and books. So scroll through the pages, then if you like you can download the .pdf through Scribd. (When you open it in Acrobat, or FoxIt as I prefer, you can view two pages side by side, just as the book intended.)

Lady and the Tramp Storybook

To celebrate the release the new Platinum Edition (or is it 50th Anniversary Edition?) of Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" I've decided to scan in and upload some beautiful illustrations from a Tramp storybook I've had lying around. I picked the book up for 50 cents at a tag sale, which was still a good deal for a first edition (1955) regardless of the fact that it's falling apart. The art is spotty in the book - some illustrations are completely off model and uninspired while others are obviously by talented artists. (I only included the best ones.) Look at the way the rain scenes are rendered! Very nice. The cheap Disney storybooks released nowadays make me die inside. (Also, this book is long out of print and nobody's making any money off these pictures...please don't sue me for posting these.)

(front cover)

(back cover)


I also have a first edition Bambi storybook that has some amazing art in it...maybe I'll get around to posting that some day.

Bill Peet's CARS

So I'm surfing around Bill Peet's website and I find these old designs for the Disney short, "Susie the Little Blue Coupe." I've yet to see the short, but these designs look uncannily like Pixar's character designs for CARS. See for yourself:

Bill Peet's car designs

Pixar's car designs

I duno. I guess there's only so many ways to design cars, but I feel like Bill Peet must have had a pretty strong influence...wouldn't be surprised if they had pulled some of his drawings from that handy Disney archive. Visit Bill Peet's site for more pictures from "Susie."

Flea Market Find

So I was out and about today and decided to stop at this sketchy flea market thing known as "Super Flea." I have never seen so many mullets and large quantities of questionable goods...except for maybe the flea market down in Niceville, FL. (But at least that was kinda indoors, this was just a parking lot.) There was one guy who had all these old trading cards...not baseball cards but actual fun old trading cards from the 80's. He had Dark Crystal cards (I already own the full set of those) and I got a pack of Gremlins 2 cards and one of Frazetta artwork. He had Harry and the Hendersons cards! Who knew they made those? But the real treat I found for a dollar was an Alice and Wonderland children's book/record. I haven't had a chance to listen to the record, but I will when I go home this weekend maybe. (Usually they're awful though.) The artwork in the book is actually pretty decent though! So I thought I would post a few of my favorite illustrations here, as this is obviously out of print and hopefully no one will sue me for doing so. No artist is listed anywhere in the book. (Disney has a nice way of not crediting many of their workers.)

The colors on this two page spread! And the composition! Very nice.

That last illustration there is very interesting because it features a character NOT in the film, the Jabberwock. Does anyone know if that was an original design for the film that was never used or maybe cut out? Its eyes are totally freakin' me out.

For more kid's records with full audio and artwork, check out the wonderful Kiddie Records Weekly.