Sleeping Beauty Background Paintings

In essence earle had been granted control over the film s visual appearance.

Sleeping beauty background paintings.

Sleeping beauty was the first time szasz noted that background paintings had determined the direction of a disney film. Earle s transformative moment however came in 1951 when he was hired at the walt disney studios as a background painter. Earle also had the decision in the case of character designs and color schemes. During previous projects the storyboarders and animators had done their work first and the background painters simply followed their lead.

It wasn t an easy transition and tensions soon ran high. Oscar winning pixar director pete docter says eyvind earle made great choices in. Earle worked as a background artist and would eventually be chosen by walt disney to style and paint all the key backgrounds for sleeping beauty. Sleeping beauty was consciously designed for the wide screen with huge plates of backgrounds and animation.

60 years after its premiere sleeping beauty stands as a landmark in animation history for its singular designs and animation. This video is created for review purposes only. One second s worth of film is 24 frames so 24 drawings are required. See more ideas about disney sleeping beauty sleeping beauty art disney art.

Sleeping beauty animation background painting with cel set up original art disney 1959. May 20 2020 eyvind earle tom oreb and other sleeping beauty ish delights that inspire me. 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.