Once Upon a Dream: The Art of Sleeping Beauty

The Cartoon Art Museum is honoring the Disney production’s 50th anniversary. The show will feature pencil drawings, model sheets, animation cels, color guides and behind-the-scenes photographs of the cast and crew.  Almost ten years in the making, Sleeping Beauty was designed to look like no other Disney film, drawing from both medieval illustrations and cutting-edge 1950s graphic design. Artist Eyvind Earle, who supervised the film’s look and hand-painted most of the dozens of lavish backgrounds, gave the film its unique blend of lush detail and bold, stylized designs.  Disney production designer Ken Anderson developed these elements into a visually arresting feature, much of it animated by members of the Nine Old Men. Sleeping Beauty was the last Disney film to use fully hand-inked animation cels and it was filmed in 70mm scope.

The show runs July 18 – January 10, 2010 at Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 Phone: 415/CAR-TOON