Sleeping Beauty Background Paintings

60 years after its premiere sleeping beauty stands as a landmark in animation history for its singular designs and animation.

Sleeping beauty background paintings.

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. See more ideas about disney sleeping beauty sleeping beauty art disney art. Oscar winning pixar director pete docter says eyvind earle made great choices in.

Earle s transformative moment however came in 1951 when he was hired at the walt disney studios as a background painter. Sleeping beauty was the first time szasz noted that background paintings had determined the direction of a disney film. In essence earle had been granted control over the film s visual appearance. Sleeping beauty is a 1959 american animated musical fantasy film produced by walt disney based on sleeping beauty by charles perrault the 16th disney animated feature film it was released to theaters on january 29 1959 by buena vista distribution this was the last disney adaptation of a fairy tale for some years because of its initial mixed critical reception and underperformance at the box.

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. The new generation of artists working at disney pixar and other studios cite sleeping beauty as an influence and an inspiration.

Flora merryweather and fauna float through this exquisite hand painted background from disney s sixteenth animated feature sleeping beauty. This video is created for review purposes only. It wasn t an easy transition and tensions soon ran high. During previous projects the storyboarders and animators had done their work first and the background painters simply followed their lead.