Rare and Beautiful Disney Animation Artwork

The Guardian has posted a selection of beautiful unseen artworks from Disney Animated classics, all coming from Disney’s archives and to be published in the new book released by Taschen this autumn! If you do on the Guardian site HERE a right click on each image and choose "open the image in a new window" ( or download the linked file ), you'll get each artwork in big size!

Game of Thrones Artwork , Disney Animation Style

Disney fans also fans of the Game of Thrones TV series should like this! Artists Fernando Mendonça and Anderson Mahanski have created this "Walt Disney Pictures Game of Thrones" artwork series. Mendonça and Mahanski have not only captured well the essence of each actor and character but also perfectly the Disney animation style - and colors!

Artwork: copyright Fernando Mendonça and Anderson Mahanski

Disney Animation Update: Princess and the Frog, Rapunzel, and......"Prep and Landing"

Today, a special Disney Animation update, and we will begin with some pictures of the Disney Animation Panel at San Diego's Comicon on July 24.



Legendary director Hayao Miyazaki was there too - his last movie "Ponyo" will be released soon in the U.S - and here he is with John Lasseter who consider Miyazaki as his "master".





On the next picture: Director Ron Clements, Director John Musker, Director Hayao Miyazaki, John Lasseter, Director Kirk Wise and Director Lee Unkrich at the Disney Animation Panel.



On this last one John Musker, John Lasseter and Ron Clements at the San Diego Convention Center.



And talking about John Musker and Ron Clements, the two directors of Princess and the Frog, here is a great "pencil test" video that was shown during the Comicon.




Also, a series of - for some of them new - pictures from this awaited movie.























Let's talk now about another 2D animated feature, Rapunzel, as new pictures were released recently, and all this looks pretty interesting as you will see. Here they are.









A good surprise may also come from another new Walt Disney Animation project called "Prep and Landing" directed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers. Here is the pitch: "After working tirelessly on Prep and Landing for 227 years, an Elf named Wayne is upset when he doesn't receive an expected promotion to be the "director of naughty list intelligence".
Instead Magee the North Pole Christmas Eve command center coordinator partners Wayne with Lanny, an idealistic rookie who has an undying unthusiasm for Christmas. during their Christmas Eve mission, Wayne and Larry encounter unexpected challenges that push them to their limits.
Will the elves be able to guide Dasher, Dancer and the rest of the reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh through a raging snowstorm to ensure a Merry Christmas for all?"

Don't need to be a genius to guess that this new movie will be released more than probably on Christmas!

Here are some pictures of "Prep and Landing" and apparently this one seems to be done in 3D animation.







Okay, that's all for today, have all a great week-end!


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All pictures and video: copyright Disney - Getty images

Don't know yet if you want to see " Bolt " ? Have a look at these movie clips below !

Another new movie clip from the awaited Bolt animated was released yesterday, and here is a collection of the different Bolt movie clips . If you don't know yet if you will go to see this new Disney animated next month, this should help you. But warning! these videos below are great, but of course full of spoilers...

Okay, if you're still reading,here is first the official trailer to have a basic idea of the story-line. I remember you that Bolt is the story of a dog
who plays a heroic dog in a hit TV show and has some trouble recognizing that he doesn't really have superpowers in the real world.



The movie clip below is the last one released yesterday, where Bolt meets pigeons in New York City. in this funny sequence, the pigeons swear they know him from somewhere, but cannot figure it out...



If you want to watch only one of these movie clips, watch this next one! Called "the chase", it's a sequence from one of bolt's TV episodes and it's just as spectacular as an action sequence from a good summer blockbuster movie!



In this last video, you'll see another sequence from Bolt's TV episodes as well as another clip of Bolt and his friends in the "real life", trying to rescue the cat character.



Picture and all videos: copyright Disney

" Glago's Guest " , the new Disney short animated

Yesterday's article was about "The Princess and the Frog", and today, i will talk about another new Disney animated movie: "Glago's Guest", directed by Chris Williams. This one will be a "short" and each of you who will go in theatre to see "Bolt" will have the pleasure to discover it.

Chris Williams, the director of "Glago's Guest", was part of the Walt Disney Studios for 14 years joining the Florida Animation Studio in 1994. Chris was also part of the "Mulan" story team,and after completing his work on "Mulan", he came to the Californian animation Studios where he wrote the story that became "The Emperor's New Groove". John Lasseter loved Chris williams storytelling and directing and he hand-picked Chris to helm the studio's Thanksgiving 2008 feature, Bolt.

And what's the story of "Glago's Guest, you ask? Well, here is the pitch: "Glago's Guest" follows the intriguing and thought-provoking story of a lonely Russian soldier stationed in a remote deserted Siberian outpost in 1924....





When the soldier's solitude is interrupted one day by the arrival of a strange new "guest"...




Glago is jolted out of his uneventful daily routine but soon comes to realize that things aren't always what they appear to be...."



With its bold art direction, stylish depiction of the frozen Russian landscape, and inspired computer-animation, "Glago's Guest" is an exciting, and original short film that uses the medium to full advantage.

I won't spoil the end of the movie, but one good animation-specialied web site described "Glago's Guest" as " a poker-faced sci-fi thriller that’s completely uninterested in being cute and telegraphing gags and more interested in simply being awesome."

Now, i know you would like to see more of this new Disney short, so, here is a 42 seconds preview of "Glago's Guest"



"Glago's Guest", premiered in June at Annecy International Film Festival in France and will be released in theaters attached to Bolt this Thanksgiving.

Artwork and youtube video: copyright Disney

More about " The Princess and the Frog "

Thanks to Honor Hunter of the excellent Blueskydisney website who was the first to let us know about it, we've learned that new art development images of the upcoming Disney animated "The Princess and the Frog" were released on the Walt Disney Animation Studios website.

Let's have a look to them, beginning also by the first teaser of the movie. You probably saw it already, but if you didn't, here it is below with some screen shots. Note that the firefly character appears, too, at the end os this teaser.










The new images, now, showing the Princess in her room...



The Frog in the "Bayou"...



But also other scenes like this one - probably in relation with the "villain" and a "voodoo" atmosphere...



The New-Orleans streets looks gorgeous...



I'm ready to bet that this one show the "home" of the villain...



The Mardi Gras parade in the streets of New-Orleans...



And this looks very much like a finale scene - but i can be wrong...



As we know, "The Princess and the Frog" will be the big return of Disney in the traditional 2D animation, and the film teams Ron Clements and John Musker, creators of “The Little Mermaid” and “Aladdin,” with Oscar®-winning composer Randy Newman to tell a love story with frogs, voodoo, and a singing alligator! I have a really good feeling with this one - but we have to wait until Christmas 2009 to enjoy the movie!

Artwork and teaser: copyright Disney