"Comic Strip Artist's Kit" by the Art Director for Disney's Comic Strips in the 80s

This is a guide made by Carson Van Osten with drawing tips!

He was the writer and artist of Disney Comics. From 1969 to 1976, he created Mickey Mouse and Goofy  comics for the publisher Disney Studio, which produced comics for the European market. Starting in 1976, he was art director for Disney's comic strips  department in the 1980s. After that, it seems that he has sporadically worked on new Disney comics, including some covers and the adaptation of the Atlantis: The Lost Empire film.

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Comic Strip Artist's Kit by Van Osten by Marcio Disney

The 101 Dalmatians - Color Keys

Below is a collection of Walt Peregoy's art for the 101 Dalmatians film.

He was the color stylist and you can see his work discussed in greater depth in the Cartoon Modern book.

"To this day, Walt Peregoy's color styling on 101 Dalmatians (1961) remains a fine example of how color can be used creatively in animation while serving more than a merely decorative function" 

- Amid Amidi (Modern Animation Authority)

He was the painter on Sleeping Beauty (1959) and worked at The Sword in the Stone (1963), Mary Poppins (1964) and finally The Jungle Book (1967).

After several years working at Hanna-Barbera, he returned to WED Enterprises (1977 - 1983) being responsible for the architectural facades, sculptures, fountains, show rides and murals for The Land and Journey Into Imagination pavilions durginf the design of Epcot Center.

Do you recognize this one? It's up there in the title of our blog! 

You can see him (along with Marc Davis, who worked at 101 Dalmatians too) as 1 of the 4 featured artists in Disney's Four Artists Paint One Tree documentary*.

* "Four Artists Paint One Tree" (16:08) is a Sleeping Beauty Extra on SD-DVD Disc 2. It's a 1958 featurette that has four Disney artists (Marc Davis, Eyvind Earle, Joshua Meador, and Walt Peregoy) painting the same tree, each showing their own personal style. Walt Disney himself encourages each to "be themselves." 

Paper Animation for "World of Color" Water Show at Disneyland Resort

posted at the Official Disney Parks Blog on March 19th, 2010 by Valarie Sukovaty, Disneyland Public Relations

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Paper and water don’t seem like an ideal match, but throw in animation and it works in a very cool way. One type of art form being considered for “World of Color” is paper animation.

Local Glendale, California artist Megan Brain has created 3-dimentional paper sculptures of Disney characters that are turned into models or puppets with computer animation.

The result is very fun and very unique when it is projected onto a giant water screen. Heather Hust Rivera will give a more in depth update on “World of Color” next week, but in the mean time, take a look at this video and see for yourself.