sunset

rooty toot toot

after a long time I recreated some more backgrounds, from the 1951 UPA short – ROOTY TOOT TOOT. directed by JOHN HUBLEY the main animators were GRIM NATWICK and ART BABBITT. you might have guessed it, the amazing styled layouts and backgrounds were created by PAUL JULIAN. the film was voted in 1994 one of the best ’50 greatest cartoons’.

© UPA

stage

beauty and the beast 1989

around this time of the year, 25 years ago, a small team of artists from california and europe started to work on their version of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. you can read more about the story behind the scenes in several of my earlier posts ( here, here, here ) there was DON HAHN, the producer. ANDREAS DEJA and GLEN KEANE from animation, TOM SITO story, JEAN GILMORE visual development, DEREK GOGOL from london for production design, MICHAEL DUDOC DE WITT from london as well for storyboard, and me for storyboard, color and design, working in the animation studio of JILL and DICK PURDUM, in london. for a short time veterans MEL SHAW and WALT STANCHFIELD joined the team.

glen keane’s board

michael dudok de witt

derek gogol’s castle version with my colr additions

glen keane

me

glen’s board

the team discussing storyboards

mel shaw and his pastel paintings

mel shaw

glen’s early beast version

part of glen’s boards

derek’s castle

glen’s board

derek gogol and jean gilmore

opening sequence by dick purdum

tom sito pitching

andreas deja’s character design and my color

glen’s action scenes

glen’s beauty and the beast

© disney enterprises, inc

lazy afternoon

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