BAMBI Winter Pan B/G

The complete re-assembled pan B/G:

Left side detail:

Right side detail:

BAMBI

Here's a gorgeous digitally reconstructed pan B/G fro BAMBI:

Left side detail:

Right side detail:

Here's more, single frame size, very lovely:

BAMBI pan background

Tonight, once again I found nirvana in recreating this gorgeous pan background piece from BAMBI. There is a sublime tranquility in this artwork. No pop art colors. It is a gentle palette... creating a beautiful landscape for Bambi's first walk to the meadow.

This artwork is a perfect example of why I revere the art and artists from early Disney.

As usual I have split the pan so you can click on right and left sections to see greater detail.

BAMBI pan background

Here is a digitally recreated pan background from BAMBI. I have also included larger versions of the left and right sides so you can get a really good look at the detail. Gorgeous work!

more from BAMBI

I was able to remove all but three baby birds from this B/G...




The first frame of this segment is on the left as Bambi jumps into the scene... I was able to expand the B/G art the length of this pan...

The Real Bambi & Thumper!

As an animal lover, I was absolutely knocked out by a set of photographs that show us the "real Bambi & Thumper!"

The entire series was shot by photographer Tanja Askani. You can see them on her website:

http://www.tanja-askani.de/info/?p=18

Enjoy!

BAMBI (Thumper Background)

In December 2007 I was fortunate to acquire a cel of THUMPER from BAMBI. This little guy is such a charmer!

The cel was released in the 1940s through the Courvoisier Gallery program. It has the official WDP stamp in the lower right corner (Walt Disney Productions).

As was the practice at the time, the cel is laminated.

As a later Courvoisier release, it has a typically uninspired background. The early Courvoisier backgrounds were actually created by artists at Disney Studios and were more elaborate. Later releases like this one were prepared by art students in the San Francisco area, where Courvoisier was located.

The original moment in the movie included Thumper's family and looked like this:

I digitally re-created the entire original pan background:

While I was in Photoshop, I sized and then overlaid the Thumper image in exactly the right position on the recreated pan B/G to see what the setup would look like. Here's the result:

BAMBI (1942)

Thanks again to overseas correspondents Pete Turner from England and Andrea Giglio from Italy, for their recent contributions to this blog. The posting of these wonderful recreated backgrounds from BAMBI are made possible by their digital handiwork and generosity.