brewmasters
JERRY BECK
bio & contact
view posts by jerry
AMID AMIDI
bio & contact
view posts by amid
BG Inspiration
by amid
July 18, 2007 3:46 am


Disney backgrounds

Art director Hans Bacher (Mulan) has started up an incredible new blog called Animation Treasures. He’s painstakingly recreating pan backgrounds from classic animated films currently on dvd (mostly Disney ones) to offer a sense of what the original backgrounds looked like before the characters were composited on top. There’s lots of insightful notes to go along with each image. Truly a terrific educational resource that everybody should take advantage of. Thanks Hans!

Related Cartoon Brew Posts

  • Monday Morning Inspiration: 4 Great Posts
  • MONDAY MORNING INSPIRATION: Sam Cobean
  • Monday Morning Inspiration
  • Wednesday Morning Inspiration: Bill Hurtz/Bob Dranko
  • Monday Morning Inspiration: Jim Flora

    • 6 comments   posted in Classic, Disney

    « « The Knights of Laika   |   Beep! Beep! » »

    07/18/07  4:43am
    Chuck Rekow says:

    Yeah, these are great. But the Moonbird grabs…woo-Hoo! I wish they were bigger.

    Nice work, Hans!
    07/18/07  10:05am
    K.Borcz says:

    WOW! These are cool
    07/19/07  12:33am
    Scaramanga says:

    I’ve been doing similar compositions for quite a while now, simply for the fun of it. The results are often breathtaking.
    07/19/07  7:08am
    Chuck R. says:

    I thought Disney DVD’s were notoriously hard to get screen grabs from. I’d be all over Dumbo and Lilo and Stitch if I could get my system to work for me.

    A similar source of inspiration is the Japanese book “The Art of Disney” which devotes a lot of space to backgrounds —Sleeping Beauty in particular. They may still have a copy or two at Stuart Ng
    07/19/07  11:59am
    Tina Price says:

    WOW - this is GREAT!! I don’t know where you get the time. You are truly amazing. Thanks so much for this.
    07/21/07  1:31pm
    Dav-Odd says:

    Oh, THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU sir! More wonderful than refrigerated shell-shaped butter gracing glutinous dinner rolls, and more useful than an eighteen-piece fondue set!
    Write a comment.





    Comment:

  • TAGS

    3D Advertising Animators Anime Bad Ideas Books Business Cartoon Culture Cartoon Modern CGI Classic Comics Disney DVD Essentials Events Experimental Feature Film Flash Games Ideas/Commentary Illustration Internet/Blogs Music Videos Shorts Site News Stop Motion Student Titles TV Ward Kimball

  • ADVERTISEMENTS
    • A.01 - Three Apparel
    • A.1A Nomad Gallery
    • A.2 - Magoo
    • A.3A Kyle Boyd
    • A.4 CTN
    • A.5 - Schoolism

  • COMMUNITY

      Cartoon Brew RSS Feed
      Cartoon Brew on Facebook
      Cartoon Brew on YouTube
      Cartoon Brew on Twitter

  • GUEST BREWERS

    ERIC GOLDBERG
    profile / view posts
    PES
    profile / view posts
    LINDA SIMENSKY
    profile / view posts

  • RECENT BREW TV EPISODES

    Together!
    By David Sheahan. For this moth and roach, an afterlife together is their only hope. A graduation film from Pratt Institute.
    The Princess and the Frog
    An exclusive preview of Disney's upcoming film. Includes an interview with animator Bruce Smith.
    Singles
    By Rebecca Sugar. A good sandwich always needs American cheese. A graduation film School of Visual Arts.
    The Terrible Thing of Alpha 9!
    By Jake Armstrong. A space bounty hunter travels to a lonely planet to kill a terrible monster.
    To The Moon
    By Jacob Ospa. A man goes on a hot-air balloon voyage to visit the Moon...and gets more than he bargained for.

  • COMMENT OF THE MOMENT

    "Not being a cartoonist is the surest way of heading up a cartoon studio."
    – Floyd Norman
    Meet the President of
    Fox Animation Studios

  • EVENTS

    No events to show

  • SITES WE LIKE

  • © 2009 Cartoon Brew LLC. Cartoon Brew is a trademark of Cartoon Brew LLC. All other names and trademarks appearing on CartoonBrew.com are the property of their respective owners. The written content on Cartoon Brew is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Creative Commons license.