Animation art from the Masters

If you happen to be in Bergamo, here a recommendation: There is currently a wonderful exhibition "dalla carta ai cartoni" curated by our amazing friend Federico Fiecconi. The exhibition - located in the breathtaking Monastero di Astino - comprises original drawings by Mark Davis, Winsor McCay, Chuck Jones, Bruno Bozzetto, David Silverman, Otto Messmer, Genndy Tartakovsky, Walt Kelly, ... from Snow White, Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Fantasia, Donald Duck, La Linea, ... Impressive, you'll see.

Jim Henson Teaches Us How To Make A Muppet In 1969

Jim Henson and Muppeteers show kids how to make puppets from simple things like socks. This video aired on Public Television in 1969, prior to Sesame Street, on Iowa Public Television's "Volume See" kids' show. www.iptv.org

(Thanks, Laura)

Improvised perspective stage

Improvised perspective stage

Upright format

I'm not sure if it's only me but, sometimes, I enjoy to rotate the screen in order to work in portrait format, it has a kind of a scaffold feel to it. This BTW really works lovely with tall characters and all sorts of upright format things.

Bozzetto Non Troppo - Official Trailer

"A legend, like my father" (Diane Disney Miller)

Beagle boy, adjusted to my taste

Coyote

Layout/Colour reference, Maurice Noble (c) Warner Bros. All rights reserved.

Coyote

Nelbert

Book trailer for 'Nelbert the Introvert' by Shiyoon Kim, available at www.shiyoonkim.com
Trailer:
Trailer Pencil Test:

Mort Drucker

The National Cartoonists Society has released a 40-minute video profiling legendary cartoonist and illustrator Mort Drucker.

via

Good night, everyone ...

Good night, everyone ...

Before the guys arrived

A mouse

Mouse, off-model

"The Hijacked Icon" Here is the hijacked piece in its full looney glory: ... and this is the original piece by John Hench: Original artwork (c) Disney. All rights reserved.

... and here is the hijacked John Hench piece in its looney glory.

Disney's Aristocats: rare production photo

Ink and paint department, ca. 1969.

The Litterbug (1961)

Love the art direction on this.

(c) Disney. All rights reserved.

Update: Here are two Donald Duck model sheets from that period (images via Tom Simpson):

Space Age Monday, let's just say

"André Courrèges’ 1960s Space Age Fashion and clear plastic blow-up furniture by Emanuelle and Quasar Khan."

via Atomic Flash Deluxe

One million dollar photo: construction of the Atomium

Monument and symbol, built for the World Expo 1958 in Brussels. (Photo by/courtesy of Dolf Kruger)

What Carl Spitzweg saw and what I see really differs...

Hägar the Horrible

I always have been a huge fan of Chris Browne's Hägar the Horrible, so, a short while ago I did this kind of an animated-feature-ified version of Hägar for a character design demo at FH Salzburg. The background is borrowed from an Albert Bierstadt painting, again.

... and some details.

Carl Barks: The Dickens of Duckburg

This is an article on Carl Barks which appeared in the 1992 periodical, Comics Scene Yearbook.

via Filmic Light; image scans courtesy of Dan Alexander Dizmentia