Animation Artifacts &Disney &Story & Storyboards 20 Oct 2007 08:14 am

Bill Peet’s Tar Baby pt 1

- I’ve been an enormous fan of Bill Peet‘s work. Thanks to John Canemaker I have this storyboard from Song of the South. It’s the Tar Baby sequence.
One page is reworked; the others develop beautifully.

I’ve split the sequence I have into two posts. It takes a while to scan and reconstruct these very large stats in photoshop. I’ll post the remainder of the sequence I have on Monday.


(Click images to enlarge so that you can read them.)


Here we have a reworking of the second board – or, at least, a repositioning and editing of some of the drawings. Unfortunately, the original stat here is blown out a bit (making some of the writing invisible) and smaller (meaning I blew it up a bit larger.) However, you can see the drawings better in in the first board.

6 Responses to “Bill Peet’s Tar Baby pt 1”

  1. on 20 Oct 2007 at 9:57 pm 1.hans bacher said …

    that is a real treasure, michael.
    they are masterpieces in storytelling.
    thank you -
    hans

  2. on 20 Oct 2007 at 10:43 pm 2.Michael J. Ruocco said …

    I love Bill Peet’s work. There’s so much vigor & life in each one of his sketches. It’s surprising how many of his poses from these boards are nearly identical to what finally ends up in the final film.

  3. on 21 Oct 2007 at 2:22 pm 3.Eddie Fitzgerald said …

    Beautiful boards! I love the way Peet spots his darks and puts the characters in interesting backgrounds. I love his style, which is wonderfully sketchy and cartoony.

  4. on 22 Oct 2007 at 1:29 pm 4.Jenny said …

    Michael-thanks so much for reassembling this fantastic work–I can imagine all too well how tedious the scanning must be for stats of that size–bravo!

    So much to learn from and appreciate there…

  5. on 27 Oct 2007 at 8:03 pm 5.smacleod said …

    Yeah, these are some great scans. Thanks so much for sharing these. They are beautifully drawn. Peet was incredible!

  6. on 24 Feb 2008 at 4:58 pm 6.eric weber said …

    Great , thank you very much for sharing, we cartoon fans appreciate so much stuff like this.

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