Disney &Frame Grabs &Layout & Design 12 Jul 2012 05:34 am
Neilsen’s Mermaids – recap
- Since the Little Mermaid sequel – no wait, it’s a prequel – just aired on Disney Jr. a few days ago, I thought this a good time to post some of Kay Neilsen ‘s illustrations done for Disney back in the 30′s when they were initially thinking of doing the Andersen tale as a film. These frame grabs come from the extras on the Platinum Edition of the dvd.
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on 12 Jul 2012 at 6:46 am 1.Stephen Macquignon said …
Wow! Too bad they waited
on 12 Jul 2012 at 9:05 am 2.Jason McDonald said …
Beautiful.
on 12 Jul 2012 at 10:34 pm 3.The Gee said …
What’s interesting to me is just how different that would have been from the one that was made.
I know the Ice Queen story has been bounced around for a while and there is the earlier version (russian produced?). But, it is probably a safe bet that the upcoming one will be different in tone and story than an earlier one. Probably not like Wild Life or Bolt ended up being different but certainly not close to the tone that this earlier Little Mermaid looks like it would have been, if it had been produced.
on 12 Jul 2012 at 11:07 pm 4.Michael said …
You’re right about The Snow Queen. They’ve even changed the story, as they did with Rapunzel, I mean Tangled. That one has moved from 2D animation to cgi. It’s not worth even trying to compare them.
on 13 Jul 2012 at 5:29 pm 5.Mark Sonntag said …
Wow, I’ve never seen this stuff.