"Disney Dossiers" showcases some seldom-seen art from the studio's animation research library

re: "Disney Dossiers" showcases some seldom-seen art from the studio's animation research library

Jim Hill — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:07:14 GMT

I just added this book to my Christmas list- thanks for letting us know about it! I'm in awe of these pictures. It's almost like the book "The Disney That Never Was" by Charles Solomon, in the sense that it has concept art from films that never actually came out (or films that changed (KOTS & SB). Concept art is my favorite animation art, so I hope Santa brings this to me.

Snow White up there looks like Alice a bit, and it's kind of cool to see "Alice" and Grumpy together... :-)

Thanks for the article & pictures!

re: "Disney Dossiers" showcases some seldom-seen art from the studio's animation research library

Jim Hill — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:54:40 GMT

May have to pick this one up. But what I'd really like to see are Tim Burton's design drawings for "The Black Cauldron."

re: "Disney Dossiers" showcases some seldom-seen art from the studio's animation research library

Jim Hill — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:28:16 GMT

I thought that Kingdom of the Sun was renamed to Emperor's New Groove. Am I correct? This book looks very interesting and will be a great one to get.

re: "Disney Dossiers" showcases some seldom-seen art from the studio's animation research library

Jim Hill — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:54:51 GMT

Hey, Jim (or anyone), how much (if any) crossover is there between this book and the Solomon book that blackcauldron mentions?

re: "Disney Dossiers" showcases some seldom-seen art from the studio's animation research library

Jim Hill — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:05:40 GMT

rainjax- I can't fully answer your question, but "The Disney That Never Was" came out in December of 1995, so this new book has a lot of stuff that hadn't even been created yet for the first book (John Henry, Kingdom, Bullets, etc.). I've read "Never Was" a few times years ago, and I think both are worth getting (they're both on my Christmas list!).

re: "Disney Dossiers" showcases some seldom-seen art from the studio's animation research library

Jim Hill — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:06:57 GMT

ooh, I hate double posting, but, RogerRmjet, there totally should be a book devoted to the art of "The Black Cauldron"! Good idea! I mean, some of the concept art is on the DVD, as Aunt Eye Bias said, but I'm sure there's so much more hidden away in the vault!

re: "Disney Dossiers" showcases some seldom-seen art from the studio's animation research library

Jim Hill — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:16:48 GMT

"Empire of the Sun" became "The Emperor's New Groove" and "Sweating Bullets" became "Home on the Range," even though the plots of both movies changed, the former titles are mentioned on each of the films DVD releases if you listen to the audio commentaries.