These Disney Commercial Cels Designed by Tom Oreb Can Be Yours
A little Cartoon Modern inspiration for a Monday morning: these Donald Duck and Alice in Wonderland production cel/master backgrounds …
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The Mystery Bull I Found at Van Eaton Galleries
A year or two ago, when I visiting Van Eaton Galleries in Sherman Oaks, the gallery’s proprietor, Mike van Eaton, showed me one of his …
Gallery: Newly Discovered Tom Oreb Gag Drawings
Tom Oreb is recognized by many as being one of the finest character designers during the Golden Age of Hollywood animation. Certainly, he …
Rare Disney Car Commercials Designed by Tom Oreb
For a short period of time during the mid-1950s, the Disney company allowed corporations to use its characters to sell products. There’s …
The Average Workday At Disney Was A Lot Different Seventy Years Ago
No matter how many books one reads about classic Disney animation, it’s difficult to imagine the day-to-day life of artists during the …
Bob Givens Redux
A couple days ago, I wrote about Bob Givens, the 94-year-old artist who designed Bugs Bunny in his debut short A Wild Hare. While I was …
Beware The Deep Archives and David Scheve
I’ve never had to write something like this before because I’ve never had a consumer experience quite as awful as this. I hope to prevent …
Victor Haboush (1924-2009)
Victor Haboush passed away on May 24, 2009 at age 85. A first-generation American of Lebanese descent, he was born on April 16, 1924 and …
Disney Artists Write Home During WWII
During World War II, dozens of Disney artists were drafted into the US military. Today I’m sharing letters written by three of those …
Rare Commercials by Tex Avery, Ed Benedict and Tom Oreb
YouTube user ‘VidResidue’ has uploaded a couple of rare 1950s animated commercials worth sharing. The first is a Kool-Aid spot directed …
Floyd Norman on Disney Mavericks
Be sure and check out this terrific article by animation veteran Floyd Norman about how Walt Disney offered creative latitude in his …
John Hubley’s Flat Hatting
We’ve debuted a new film on CartoonBrewFilms. It’s John Hubley’s Flat Hatting, a rare 1946 US Navy training film produced at UPA (at the …
Mickey Styled
Here’s Mickey Mouse as you’ve never seen him before. The 1955 Disney-produced Nash car commercial posted below is as modern as the mouse …
“The Ropes At Disney,” A 1943 Disney Employee Manual
Ever wonder what it was like to work at the Disney Studio during the Golden Age of Animation? Think it was the “happiest place on Earth”? …
Not Tom Oreb
I’ve had a few people email me this morning asking me to check out this Tom Oreb artwork from Ward Kimball’s DISNEYLAND space episode …
MONDAY AFTERNOON INSPIRATION: Random 50s Design
Here’s some random art from 1950s cartoons which appeal to me for different reasons. To start things off, below are four details from UPA …
Monday Morning Inspiration: Tom Oreb
Here’s a few random model sheet drawings by Tom Oreb. These drawings won’t be included in my forthcoming Chronicle book on 1950s …
Tuesday Morning Inspiration: Tom Oreb
A few random sketches by legendary animation designer Tom Oreb…
TOOT WHISTLE PLUNK AND BOOM
There’s a great post about the classic Ward Kimball short TOOT WHISTLE PLUNK AND BOOM (1953) at the appropriately named Ward-O-Matic, the …
Kimball Paints Oreb
After the recent post about Ward Kimball paintings, somebody emailed to ask whether I had a color version of Kimball’s painting of Disney …
Just A couple of Oreb Drawings
I saw this drawing by Tom Oreb (character stylist on SLEEPING BEAUTY and TOOT, WHISTLE PLUNK & BOOM) for the first time yesterday. I’m …