Sleeping Beauty Background Paintings

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Sleeping beauty background paintings.

Sleeping beauty animation background painting with cel set up original art disney 1959. 60 years after its premiere sleeping beauty stands as a landmark in animation history for its singular designs and animation. It wasn t an easy transition and tensions soon ran high. Sleeping beauty was consciously designed for the wide screen with huge plates of backgrounds and animation.

Earle also had the decision in the case of character designs and color schemes. Sleeping beauty is a 1959 american animated musical fantasy film produced by walt disney based on sleeping beauty by charles perrault the 16th disney animated feature film it was released to theaters on january 29 1959 by buena vista distribution this was the last disney adaptation of a fairy tale for some years because of its initial mixed critical reception and underperformance at the box. The fairies have been cut out and mounted onto one cel which sits over this amazing background illustration of the royal throne room. Flora merryweather and fauna float through this exquisite hand painted background from disney s sixteenth animated feature sleeping beauty.

In essence earle had been granted control over the film s visual appearance. One second s worth of film is 24 frames so 24 drawings are required. Earle s transformative moment however came in 1951 when he was hired at the walt disney studios as a background painter. During previous projects the storyboarders and animators had done their work first and the background painters simply followed their lead.

Oscar winning pixar director pete docter says eyvind earle made great choices in. This video is created for review purposes only. Again he proved a quick study lending his talents to the academy award winning short toot whistle plunk and boom beloved full length feature sleeping beauty and many other time honored disney animated films. Sleeping beauty was the first time szasz noted that background paintings had determined the direction of a disney film.