Tag Archives: Drawings

Life Drawings

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Art Babbitt

Á propos the inspiration of life drawing models that Disney employed, here are some of Babbitt’s original art from drawing sessions.

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Disney’s Art Models

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Art Babbitt

For the Disney artists of the 1930s and early 40s, a huge credit of their exponential growth is owed to the in-studio art classes.  And while teachers like Don Graham and Eugene Fleury deserve their due, this post is to … Continue reading →

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Geppetto First Pass: Disney’s Pinocchio

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Art Babbitt

Only when I first heard about the “first pass” stage from a contemporary Disney animator did the whole animation process begin to gel for me. It takes a certain amount of trial and error to get from a storyboard drawing … Continue reading →

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Illustrator for Hire, 1928

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Art Babbitt

In 1928, Arthur Babbitt was a real New Yorker. He was a successful freelance artist, working in his own studio near Times Square, engaged to a cute brunette from Brooklyn, and all before he was 21 years old.  This was … Continue reading →

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Walk Cycles from “Alice in Wonderland”

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Art Babbitt

Lou Bunin was a stop-motion animation master, but seeing these drawings animate makes me crave a hand-drawn Alice to challenge Disney’s.   I would have loved to have seen more of Babbitt’s drawings move! Thanks to the late, great Shamus … Continue reading →

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More Alice In Wonderland Character Designs

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Art Babbitt

After I previously posted some Babbitt drawings of characters for Lou Bunin’s Alice in Wonderland, I stumbled across a tribute website that his daughter, Amy, put together.  She writes: “Lou began working on Alice in 1946, just after the end of … Continue reading →

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Alice In Wonderland Character Designs

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Art Babbitt

************* UPDATE!  Click HERE for part 2!  ************** Soon after he left Disney in January of 1947, Art Babbitt got a job as character designer with Lou Bunin on his 1949 film version of Alice in Wonderland (eventually released in … Continue reading →

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