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recreated backgrounds

I was asked how the re-creation of long lost backgrounds from DVD material works, below are some of the steps. in this case, a pan from disney’s FANTASIA, NUTCRACKER SUITE, an additional problem besides removing the animated milkweed ballerinas was the multiplane pan, the foreground elements moved in different speeds, what created very complicated overlappings. in the final version I had to add some airbrushed light effects in the sky background, but based on the original source. this is one of the more time consuming pieces, the endresult was worth it though.

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lost treasures 3

…and a few more recreated backgrounds from disney’s animated classics

1945 three caballeros-bahia

1948 melody time-once upon a wintertime

1940 fantasia-nutcracker suite

1937 don donald

1947 fun and fancy free-happy valley

1939 ugly duckling

1936 donald and pluto

1935 music land

1940 fantasia-nutcracker suite

1938 donald’s better self

1948 melody time-johnny appleseed

1947 fun and fancy free-happy valley

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more lost treasures

below are more recreated backgrounds, as far as I know the originals don’t exist anymore in the disney archives. in case you are interested in those recreated treasures, I posted a lot more in the past.

1948 so dear to my heart

1945 tiger trouble

1936 three little wolves

1938 farmyard symphony

1938 the fox hunt

1939 donald’s lucky day

1946 casey at the bat

1936 three little wolves

1940 fantasia-pastoral symphony

1935 music land

1954 the vanishing prairie-opening

1948 so dear to my heart

1936 elmer elephant

1947 fun and fancy free-bongo

1948 bumble boogie

1939 practical pig

1939 donald’s cousin gus

1940 tugboat mickey

1935 who killed cock robin

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madeline

the first children book MADELINE was published in 1939, 8 more followed. the author and illustrator was LUDWIG BEMELMANS, 1898 – 1962, born in austria and emigrated to the united states in 1914. the illustrations in the first book are very simple, concentrating on the characters, there is barely any major background. in the few pieces where BEMELMANS added some more detail to establish where the story takes place you can see that he was obviously inspired by the french painter RAOUL DUFY, 1877 – 1953.

in 1952 UPA produced an animated version of the first book, directed by BOBE CANNON, layout design ART HEINEMAN and color by JULES ENGEL. the animation was done by BILL MELENDEZ and FRANK SMITH. the design team was facing the problem to develop a background style since there was not enough reference in the books. they went back to RAUL DUFY, and came up with backgrounds inspired by his art. below you can see 2 recreated longer pans from the short.

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masterpieces

so far I guess I have recreated more than one hundred backgrounds from disney’s BAMBI. you probably know that only a few originals from the film are left because most of the scenes where shot in levels with the MULTIPLANE-camera, had to be painted in oil on glass, and after the shots were successful some poor guy had to scrape off the master-paintings from the glass. glass was rare during WWII and had to be reused. the recreated BG’s below were seen the last time in original around 1941/42. the first one is about one third of the full length of the opening pan of the film, shot in 8 levels to create the feel of depth.

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