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more from the book 1

one1more2time3 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:17:30 +0000

another illustration from the book DREAM WORLDS 2

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one1more2time3 — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:26:03 +0000

1980 WILHELM M.BUSCH illustrated GUSTAV HILLARD’S novel DER SMARAGD. with these ‘jewels’ I wish all my chinese friends a happy NEW YEAR of the dragon, kung hei fat choi!

more 101 dalmatians

one1more2time3 — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:13:40 +0000

comparison 7

one1more2time3 — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:26:43 +0000

here we go – another year. hopefully a good one, – I doubt it – too many dark clouds on the horizon! anyway, I want to start the BLOG-year with some beautiful artwork, already over fifty years old but for me better than most of the film-design artwork I see today. the disney animated feature film 101 DALMATIANS was released january 25, 1961, the first of the disney films that had a very different style. the animation was xeroxed and showed for the first time most of the original drawings of the animators. the corresponding backgrounds matched the loose lines of the animation perfect, the background details in line were xeroxed as well and the cels placed over the slightly offset gouache colored backgrounds. stylistically a masterpiece. following are a few layout drawings with the recreated backgrounds.

all my best wishes

one1more2time3 — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:23:12 +0000

1.1998

one1more2time3 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:20:10 +0000

both illustrations were sketched by CHEN-YI CHENG and then inked and painted by me. the first one was for publication, the color piece created in january 1998 was the planned cover for the JEFF KURTI coffee-table book about disney’s MULAN, before FRED TIO together with MICHAEL HOBSON, DEREK SHIELDS and DANIEL CLARK designed the poster for the movie and it was decided to use the same stunning motif for the book cover as well.

calling

one1more2time3 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:22:38 +0000

from a seventies commercial animated by RICHARD WILLIAMS ANIMATION – the good old days!

special

one1more2time3 — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:39:17 +0000

a ‘merry christmas’ to everybody who is celebrating the event. for this special occasion I want to show you a selection of designs for several animated feature films created over the past fifteen years by some of the best in their field. PAUL FELIX and a few of his many masterful pencil sketches for disney’s MULAN, as well as some of his paintings and drawings for the shelved SNOW QUEEN project. further MARCELO VIGNALI with his beautiful visuals for MULAN and CHEN-YI CHENG’S ancestor group for the ‘mushu’s awakening’ sequence in MULAN. finally two more stunning jungle action scenes for TARZAN by JOHN WATKISS, and some of the amazing layout work for BALTO created by one of the best layout artists, now animator – BOLHEM BOUCHIBA. I hope you enjoy this very special gallery of the masters – happy holidays.

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one1more2time3 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:54:05 +0000

some more selected artwork created by WILHELM M.BUSCH over a span of about forty years, that shows his incredible versatility in all different techniques – watercolor and etching, simple ballpointpen, pencil and rendered pen+ink. and they look so effortless done, just written down…

empty

one1more2time3 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:53:48 +0000

another one for the book

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one1more2time3 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:30:38 +0000

ALEX NINO created the following illustrations for the comic novel …JUST PASSING BY! in 1999. in my opinion it is the best work I ever saw from him. he allowed me to xerox the oversized originals before they went into printing and the text bubbles were added. unbelievable artwork, all drawn with a simple pen, hardly with any corrections on the total of twenty pages. the masterpiece was published in july 1999 in FRANK FRAZETTA FANTASY ILLUSTRATED, vol.1, number 7.

as expected

one1more2time3 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:08:00 +0000

portrait study

one1more2time3 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:21:18 +0000

another study for the book…

denis rich

one1more2time3 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:38:43 +0000

during the pre-production of disney’s MULAN I had a chance to work with some amazing talent. like DENIS RICH (1930 – 2007), who did visual development and storyboard work. his drawing style was very precise, with a knowledge of costume design and props. with his vast experience from numerous films he had worked on (supermann 1978, three musketeers 1993, son of the pink panther 1993, return to oz 1985, dark crystal 1982, for your eyes only 1981) he immediately understood what we needed for our film and he came up with incredible atmospheric and rich in detail scenes during the hun attack sequence. we talked once in a while about his work in the pinewood studios in england with some legendary filmmakers, he had some stories to tell. after his mulan work he went back to england and storyboarded on a lot more live action films, some were – harry potter and the order of the phoenix 2007, harry potter and the goblet of fire 2005, harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 2004, finding neverland 2004, anna and the king 1999, the avengers 1998. below is some of his work on the hun attack in MULAN.

700

one1more2time3 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:53:37 +0000

this is post nr.700. on december 31, 2010, I compiled a LIST OF CONTENT with the first 600 chapters of this blog. soon I will update that list up to this post nr.700. for several reasons I slowed down posting, 100 in one year is not what I had done the previous years since september 12, 2008, when I started ANIMATION TREASURES. but I guess, most of you have never seen all the 700 posts. find out in the LIST OF CONTENT what might be interesting and then find it in the SEARCH-function.

for today I collected some of the reasons why I started to work in the ANIMATION business. in the early seventies I began animating, about twenty years later with the help and advice of RICHARD WILLIAMS and DON HAHN I moved into the concept- and production-design area, where I had a chance to work on some historic animated feature films. and I was very lucky to meet and work with some of the artists who created the masterpieces of the past that had started my love for animation.

even more edelmann

one1more2time3 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:53:02 +0000

the following illustrations were created by HEINZ EDELMANN in the seventies and eighties for the FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE MAGAZIN, the magazine TWEN, the WDR ( westgerman tv ) and ATLAS FILM.

learning

one1more2time3 — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:38:53 +0000

the work on the new book turns into a major study. I wish I had learned that much forty years ago. unfortunately there was not enough information, or maybe I was too lazy. it takes a lot of time to study the old masters, in paintings and photographs. by studying I mean analyzing their work, their composition and choices of color, by doing my own interpretation. like the analysis of a 1886 MESCHERSKY painting above. so far I did way over one hundred new paintings. maybe I am still too much connected to what I did for so many years, - developing styles for films -, somehow a new style evolved during the studies, cubist-style influenced with a lot of ingredients from french and swiss poster-art of the earlier part of the last century. I had no idea that painting and playing with ‘color-shapes’ can be so much fun, fortunately SAN, the co-author of the book, brings me always back down to earth…

11-11-11

one1more2time3 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:10:02 +0000

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one1more2time3 — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 01:28:23 +0000

another selection of mostly older artwork created by WILHELM M.BUSCH

more…

one1more2time3 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:14:15 +0000

…from the book