Sleeping Beauty Background Paintings

Sleeping beauty was consciously designed for the wide screen with huge plates of backgrounds 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 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. Sleeping beauty was the first time szasz noted that background paintings had determined the direction of a disney film. The new generation of artists working at disney pixar and other studios cite sleeping beauty as an influence and an inspiration.

During previous projects the storyboarders and animators had done their work first and the background painters simply followed their lead. Flora merryweather and fauna float through this exquisite hand painted background from disney s sixteenth animated feature sleeping beauty. 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.

May 20 2020 eyvind earle tom oreb and other sleeping beauty ish delights that inspire me. See more ideas about disney sleeping beauty sleeping beauty art disney art. In essence earle had been granted control over the film s visual appearance. The fairies have been cut out and mounted onto one cel which sits over this amazing background illustration of the royal throne room.

Earle s transformative moment however came in 1951 when he was hired at the walt disney studios as a background painter. Oscar winning pixar director pete docter says eyvind earle made great choices in. Sleeping beauty animation background painting with cel set up original art disney 1959. It wasn t an easy transition and tensions soon ran high.