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Fun & Fancy Free (1947, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Hamilton Luske and William Morgan)

Character designs for Sleeping Beauty by Tom Oreb

“Eyvind and I were the two hot new guys... We’d work on the weekends, we’d throw storyboards up... a lot of the old guys just absolutely turned on us. It was really kind of brutal in a way. But guys like Tommy, Ward Kimball, Bill Peet, Don DaGradi, they didn’t have that closed kind of thing. Tommy really married Eyvind and I. He became our friend. He looked after us. He talked us up. So the three of us became really good friends. We started hanging out together and all of that. Eyvind was kind of like Tom’s equal. They were both in the same age range and everything else. And I was the young kid. I was probably nine or ten years younger than both of them. I just became Tom’s protégé. I idolized him.” - Vic Haboush, layout artist

“There was only absolute harmony and enthusiasm between Ken Anderson, Don DaGradi, Eric Larson, Tom Oreb and myself. We set out to create the most beautiful picture we could do. We all loved each other’s work... The first production layouts were given to me to redraw in my style. Tom Oreb drew the characters over and over and over again. The Ink and Paint Department made finished cels of Tom Oreb’s characters and they were placed over my backgrounds to see if they would fit.” - Eyvind Earle, background painter & color stylist

excerpt and photos from They Drew As They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney’s Mid-Century Era: The 1950s and 1960s by Didier Ghez Aurora photo [x]