Animation Artifacts &Story & Storyboards 03 Dec 2007 09:01 am
Baia boards
- Thanks again to the enormous generosity of John Canemaker, I’m able to post this board of artwork from the Baia sequence of The Three Caballeros.
In this segment from the film, during a big dance number, Donald Duck falls in love with Aurora Miranda. The great Brazilian musicians dance and swing with the birds and other animals in this very colorful and evocative sequence.
(You can watch this number on YouTube today – it might be down tomorrow) in case you don’t know the film.
Here’s a beautiful production drawing with Donald and women from the film. This came from the Latin Baby blog (however it might have been cribbed from Blackwing Diaries.) It’s devoted entirely to the Latin films of Disney. Naturally, Three Caballeros is featured prominently.
The photographic boards come in a very long first page (which had to be broken into two photos) and a more controlled second page. To enable me to post it as large as possible, I broke that first, long board into four parts – each row of the board represents one part. Hence, 1A, B, C, and D are really just one very long board shifted around in photoshop.
Board #1 actually looks like this. However, due to space constraints I can’t post it at a high enough resolution to make it clearly visible. Consequently, I broke it into the four boards just below this.
1a
(Click any image to enlarge.)
Hans Bacher ‘s site Animation Treasures (now defunct) included this beautiful reconstructed rendering of a Bg from the sequence – see board 1A.
Art such as this will be missed with the tear-down of Hans’ excellent sites, and I can only hope that he’ll be able to get some newer site – not blog – together for this great artwork.
on 03 Dec 2007 at 1:56 pm 1.Tim Rauch said …
wow these are amazing. just rich, rich images. thanks, john and michael!
on 03 Dec 2007 at 2:12 pm 2.Ward said …
I believe that that Fred Moore drawing of Donald with the Latin beauties came from Jenny’s Blackwing Diaries blog.
on 03 Dec 2007 at 3:10 pm 3.Michael said …
The color poster atop came from a site featuring poster art from movies which they sell. They also have several posters in Spanish, which aren’t as attractive. Jenny’s image is a beauty, probably also from this film. You can also find some other great pieces on Wade Sampson’s post.
on 03 Dec 2007 at 11:56 pm 4.Thad Komorowski said …
Beautiful boards from a beautiful sequence! I like how they were able to balance the insanity that comes later in the film with these scenes of quietude. For technically a camp film, THREE CABALLEROS is pretty awesome.
on 04 Dec 2007 at 4:27 am 5.Eddie Fitzgerald said …
“Three Caballeros” is one of my favorite Disney films! It’s uneven but when it’s good, it’s very good! It may be the most imaginative film I’ve ever seen!
on 14 Jan 2008 at 12:02 am 6.Meryl said …
I’ve recently jumped on your splog bandwagon, Michael. It is wonderful…I got interested the week this page came out…..Bacher’s luscious color pan from the Baia sequence of Three Caballeros is now the screen saver on my desktop. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
on 23 Jan 2008 at 10:58 pm 7.Phoenix said …
Thanks for the mention and for the lovely Bahia sequence images!