Animation Artifacts &Disney &Frame Grabs 01 Dec 2008 09:16 am
More Bambi
- Lately, I find myself unable to get enough Bambi.
I’ve gone back through all the deer skeletal drawings by Rico Le Brun which were sent to me by Sky David. Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
I look and look again at the wonderful posts on Hans Bacher‘s site. To see some of these go: here, here, here, here and here.
The more I look, the more I want to see. So I went to the recent dvd release and found the following sketches and BG paintings among the Extras. I post them in no particular order, but they should be seen.
(Click any image to enlarge slightly.)
It’s just stunning. What else can I say?
on 01 Dec 2008 at 5:57 pm 1.Brian said …
Wow. Thanks for posting Michael.
The backgrounds for Bambi are some of the best.
on 01 Dec 2008 at 10:10 pm 2.billburgNYC said …
I love the way you put it, “Lately, I find myself unable to get enough Bambi.” Makes me think of listening to a favorite old record after not hearing it in a few years. Sometimes I can get obsessed all over again, with something I’m already intimately familiar.
I find I’m inspired as much by the fantastic artwork you post as by your enthusiasm, Michael. Thanks!
on 01 Dec 2008 at 11:39 pm 3.Steisha Pintado said …
This reminds me of another one of Hans Bacher’s posts on his blog. In one of his posts on Bambi he talks about how a few of the BG paintings were done in oils on cardboard. I brought this point to attention of my professor for my Art of Disney class. She hadn’t heard of anything else used except oils on glass for this film. I guess what my point is that if artists like you and Hans Bacher didn’t write about animation history, a lot of it would be lost and forgotten. Thank you. I appreciate your blogs.
on 03 Dec 2008 at 8:43 am 4.Ian Lumsden said …
I have been looking at the art of animation backgrounds for both my blog and a book I am compiling. Your piece succinctly linked a great movie with an artist of greatness. Your earlier anecdote on LeBrun’s technique for reducing students attending his lectures on animal anatomy was as delicious in its own way as his consummate artwork displayed here. Thanks for this.