Bill peet

"Walt Disney's Goliath II" by Bill Peet (http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=2595)

Bill Peet's Drawings

Another great example of how animators translate a story sketch into the staging for their scene. This beautiful story sketch is of course by Bill Peet, who's drawings always stimulated the animators' imagination. There are whole sequences in 101 Dalmatians and The Sword in the Stone that maintained Peet's story continuity and staging. Virtually no changes from story sketch to final film frame. In this scene Merlin is pouring some tea for Wart who just "dropped in". Ollie loosened up Wart's…

Post #500: Here is a look back at Tiger characters that were part of Disney films during Walt’s life. As I mentioned before, tigers are not particularly popular characters to do in animation, because of the costly and time-consuming procedure of having to add all those stripes, 24 frames per second. Nonetheless Disney didn’t shy away from this challenge whenever a story called for a tiger. Tillie Tiger was the female lead in the 1936 Silly Symphony Elmar Elephant. After being bullied by a…

Farewell to Shady Glade, written & illustrated by Bill Peet

written and illustrated by Bill Peet Love the use of diagonals to lead your eye across the space.

My two contributions: The Huffin Puff Express - 1974 by David L. Harrison. Has a stylized S.P. Daylight on the cover. Stubby - The Little Train that Ran Away - 1948 by Norman Christensen.