Sleeping Beauty Background Paintings

Oscar winning pixar director pete docter says eyvind earle made great choices in.

Sleeping beauty background paintings.

60 years after its premiere sleeping beauty stands as a landmark in animation history for its singular designs and animation. During previous projects the storyboarders and animators had done their work first and the background painters simply followed their lead. 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 the first time szasz noted that background paintings had determined the direction of a disney film.

This video is created for review purposes only. Earle s transformative moment however came in 1951 when he was hired at the walt disney studios as a background painter. 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. Earle also had the decision in the case of character designs and color schemes.

One second s worth of film is 24 frames so 24 drawings are required. May 20 2020 eyvind earle tom oreb and other sleeping beauty ish delights that inspire me. Sleeping beauty animation background painting with cel set up original art disney 1959. Flora merryweather and fauna float through this exquisite hand painted background from disney s sixteenth animated feature sleeping beauty.

Sleeping beauty was consciously designed for the wide screen with huge plates of backgrounds and animation. In essence earle had been granted control over the film s visual appearance. It wasn t an easy transition and tensions soon ran high. The new generation of artists working at disney pixar and other studios cite sleeping beauty as an influence and an inspiration.