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Alice In Wonderland Character Designs
************* 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...
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More Alice In Wonderland Character Designs
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...
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Walk Cycles from “Alice in Wonderland”
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...
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Illustrator for Hire, 1928
Art Babbitt, left, with friend. circa 1928, age 21 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...
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Geppetto First Pass: Disney’s Pinocchio
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. A storyboard drawing of Geppetto It takes a certain amount...
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Disney’s Art Models
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...
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Life Drawings
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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