THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993)

As we enter the week of Halloween, it's altogether appropriate that we celebrate with a first for our Animation Backgrounds blog: miniature background sets from a stop-action masterpiece... Disney's (and Tim Burton's) THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993).Here's the first THIRTEEN! If you are superstitious, we can just call it a baker's dozen...

Once Upon A Wintertime

This beautiful digitally reconstructed B/G provided by our Italian correspondent and friend Andrea Giglio. Happy Holidays!

PLUTO'S CHRISTMAS TREE

Here's a special holiday treat. In one post, a comprehensive collection of digitally re-assembeld background art from PLUTO'S CHRISTMAS TREE (1952). Here's the main title card- without the title! Note the Christmas card in the front...The camera pans in... to this very merry house exterior...Here's a re-created pan of Mickey's front door. Snow effects too!A winter playground for Pluto, and Chip

The Stockings Are Hung By The ChimneyWith Care

Re-created pan B/G from THE TOY TINKERERS

DALMATIANS at Christmas!

Here's a view you've never seen, a screenful of sooty Dalmatian puppies in this recreated pan of Roger and Anita's living room, complete with Christmas tree!OK, I couldn't eliminate all the animated pups from this background. But many of the puppies were "fixed position" and only a few were animated anyway. (The effect worked very well.)So, forgive me the minor indiscretion of a few foreground (

PLUTO'S CHRISTMAS TREE Master Pan B/G

Tonight I had an epiphany.I was going through Holiday B/G art, and I stopped to look at PLUTO'S CHRISTMAS TREE. It's my absolute favorite Christmas cartoon, and one of my all-time favorite Disney shorts. I distinctly remember the first time I saw it... I was awestruck at how the inside of the tree perfectly captured the magic of Christmas in a distinctly Disney way - with the ornaments,

From All Of Us, To All Of You

This 1958 production was a Disney gift offered via television. This special yuletide installment of "The Wonderful World of Disney" included new animation segments, as well as theatrical cartoons ("Toy Tinkerers") and non-Holiday segments from Disney classics: Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Lady and the Tramp, Cinderella, Bambi and Snow White."From All Of Us, To All Of You" was also the show's memorable

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS

Appropriate to Yuletide... background art from A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS. These include a wonderful digitally recreated pan background as well as three incidental pieces.

Mr.Magoo's CHRISTMAS CAROL

Here's my holiday gift to you, dear readers... an entire set of background art from Mr.Magoo's CHRISTMAS CAROL!I hope you enjoy the distinctly modern style. There are many recreated pans here. I think the graveyard scene artwork is particularly inspired.Happy Holidays!

GINGER NUTT'S CHRISTMAS CIRCUS (1949)

Here is Part One of some handsome backgrounds from GINGER NUTT'S CHRISTMAS CIRCUS, produced by animator David Hand.David Dodd Hand (January 23, 1900–October 11, 1986), was best known for his work at Disney. He worked on numerous Disney shorts during the 1930s, eventually becoming supervising director on the animated features Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. After leaving Disney in 1944,

MICKEY'S GOOD DEED (1932)

Disney artists were making quantum leaps in this period, ramping up to produce SNOW WHITE in 1937. When you think this B/G is a mere four years after STEAMBOAT WILLIE (which had sparse, primitive B/G art) the artistic growth is obvious. And while not yet in Disney's full bloom, this B/G is nonetheless stylish and evocative.

OH TANNENBAUM

The tree's the thing..Tom (the cat) is all over the pan background in this scene. As a matter of fact, it was virtually impossible to completely eliminate him. The animators never revealed the entire bike. Similiarly, the red gift box on the far right is animated on a cel, and while it bounces around a bit, it never moves out of the way completely.So... here's the entire pan shot, re-created with

MICKEY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL

In just under the wire, as we end the 2008 Holiday season...

christmas Cards

cOol chRistmAs Card DEsigns.. Hope U lIke tHEm.. :)

Christmas images And wallpapers

CooL christmas Wallpapers .. evEryoNe lOves ChrisTmas So.. Lets EnJoY togethEr..!!!

THE SMALL ONE: The Marketplace

This is an interesting image. I actually own several cels from the movie (a personal favorite). The most recent acquisition was a two cel setup from the musical number with a trio of swarthy characters. My setup has the three singers, and a cel with the top part of the "goods" to the right and the left. So it appears there was a background, a character layer, and two layers of cels with the "

MICKEY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (1983)