Sleeping Beauty Walt Disney´s 16th animated feature and masterpiece of the time.
Introduction
The production started with the story in 1951 then in 1952 the voices were recorded and the animation took from 1953 to 1958 to finish.
In charge of how to give the movie a uniqe look Walt gave Eyvind Earle the position of color stylist and chief background designer.
Disney's decision to give Earle so much artistic freedom was not popular among the Disney animators, who had until Sleeping Beauty exercised some influence over the style of their characters and settings
It was also the first time the studio...
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