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Disney Completes Dali Animation
jbottero writes "Wired News has an interesting piece on a Salvador Dali animation coming out of Disney Studios. It seems that in 1946, Walt Disney and Dali teamed up on a short film called Destino. The film was shelved for money reason, and now, 57 years later, Disney animators has finished what Dali started. The six minute film will be shown in theaters next year before a Disney feature film. The remnants of the aborted film include 150 storyboards, drawings and paintings, which have sat for the last half-century in the Disney vaults. Notably, some of the project was modeled on the animation program Maya. An interesting quote from the article, Dali describes Walt Disney as one of America's greatest surrealists."
i can barely wait for the action figures...
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And this is notable, why ?
Maya has been a mainstay for movie production involving 3D elements for a long time now. Or is this supposed to conjure images of Maya-on-Linux and thus make it relevant to Slashdot somehow ?
This isn't any more notable than a CGI team doing shots for CSI using Bipeds from Character Studio ( 3ds max plugin ) for one of those tacky sticks-in-bullets-holes-tell-us-where-the-bullets
Effects houses will use the software that gets the job done, and hardly ever is the choice "notable".
Just my 2cts on -that- topic.
Disney completing a shelved project like this, for a 6-minute short, on the other hand, is more interesting.
I recently did a project that was about Salvador Dali. What a great surrealist! Here is a link for any interested in browsing some of the pieces hosted by the Dali Museum. http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org
I always cringe when Disney takes one of their early artistic works (back when it at least seemed like someone cared what made it to the screen)and trots it out all "modernized" or worse, sequelized. In this instance, at least from what I can gather, they've produced something with artistic merit. I saw sketches and such of this project on the Fantasia Legacy DVD, and immediately was impressed by the bizarre vision it presented. Noone today would consider Disney avant garde...but it (well, more like HE) really was back in the day. I'm glad to see this innovative idea finally come to fruition. One can only hope that it might serve as a wake-up call as to the potential of animation as art, instead of just babysitting-fodder.
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the dude who painted the melting clocks.
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one of America's greatest surrealists.
Hmmm, that's hardly much of an achievement. Can anyone name any good American surrealist? Dali was probably taking the piss.
When this DVD does finally arrive, I hope it includes the original 15 seconds of this test reel they have. It would be nice to see the original work before any CG enhancement.
So what happened originally you ask? Here's an excerpt from The Straight Dope:
For more related articles, here are some great links too:
http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/1-30/feature
http://www.abstractdynamics.org/archives/2003/06/
http://www.animagic.hpg2.ig.com.br/destin1.htm
(This last one has images of conceptual art designs too!)
-Mr. Fusion
This month's issue has several images from the movie, along with a photo of Dali and Disney together during the collaboration.
That would be cool.
It really was worth the hype. Disney himself (grandson of the Walt) introduced it, and was justifiably proud of it. It's being introduced to compete for an Oscar. The joke was "imagine having your animated short up against Salvador Dali and Walt Disney."
Anyway, it's a surprisingly effective melding of Dali imagery and Disney animation. The animator at Disney who had done the original work is still alive and still working at Disney, and worked to finish the movie, and the original soundtrack was restored for it.
It's short, but if there's a screening, it's worth going just to see it. There's so much detail that the video transfer will be meaningfully less.
Well, I am a Dali superfan and I can say that he was without a doubt one of the best painters of all time. Only Escher's optical illusions are comprable to Dali's, but Escher did mostly works based on geometry, while Dali worked more with raw creativity. Every one of his paintings has a double image, and in several there are multiple ways to percieve what you're seeing. Not to mention the paintings are on par with classical masters such as Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Van Eyk, which no other painter has achieved in modern times. He is sort of similar to Kandinsky, both wanted to show what was inside of minds, but partially thanks to the drugs and the boundless talent, Dali's haullicinations stayed away from complete abstractionism.
I've also heard that he made a bunch of live action movies too, but I've never seen any.
I hate to burst your modern, surrealistic bubble, but Dali's inspirations came from his dreams, not from drugs. Taking acid to obtain Dali's inspiration is like kicking yourself in the nuts to get as pissed off as George Carlin.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
That's like a minute per decade, almost.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
I'd like to imagine that whoever had this daunting task would have enough existing material to copy the style.
And as far as the acid comment...
"I don't do drugs, I am drugs.
-Salvador Dali
the dude who painted the melting clocks.
If you ever have the urge to sum up an artist's work in one sentence again... don't.
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The dude who splashed paint on canvas spread on the groud.
The dude who cut off his ear and painted sunflowers.
The dude who started off those dotty paintings.
The dude who made that picture of a pipe that says it isn't a pipe.
The dude who wrote Romeo & Juliet.
The dude who wrote those books where he was going on and on about all the stuff he was thinking and doing and you couldn't figure out what was fact and what was fiction the grammar didn't work out anyway pretty damn boring book that was.
The dude who cuts animals in half and suspends them in formaldehyde.
The gal who made an exposition out of her own dirty bed.
The dude who painted a can of soup.
The dude who composed the Ring.
No, not that other dude who wrote about the Ring.
The dude who wrote that book and then all those Arabs went medieval on him, only he hid.
The dude who wraps buildings up like a parcel (and his wife, too).
The dude who directed E.T.
The gal who made those nazi films that died the other day.
The dude who poured lighter fluid over his guitar and burnt it on stage.
The dude who wrote the book about killing lots of people while using lots of snobby eighties brands.
The dude who was in that black&white film where the front of a house falls over, but he's standing where the window comes down and there's no glass in it.
The gal who sings about wanting a Mercedes Benz.
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He also made some scuplture, some music, and a deck of terot cards
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He even made a cook book. Serously.
Here: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/8013/dali/d
Actually: I was at Dali Universe in London last weekend, and realized how much of Dali's work contains adult themes; and by adult themes I don't mean balancing checkbooks. I would say that a good third of the works I saw at the exhibition had overt sexual themes. I'll be interested to see what Dali without the sex looks like in a Disney cartoon.
Of course this goes well with Disney's tradition of subtley showing phalluses to children.
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Ah, who cares? Dali and Disney are both dead. The people that should get paid are the ones that did something to this artwork recently.
Yeah, I'm one of those 14-year copyright wackos. Feel free to ignore.
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Dali was not Spanish, he was actually Catalan, from a place called Port Lligat (Yigat) in northern Catalunya.
I've just noticed that /. doesn't seem to let you use accented characters, neither can you use the XHTML character entities, such as Ampersand+iacute;
Anyway, for those that don't know, or can't tell in /., The 'i' in Dali's name has an accent on it, which is important as it completely changes how you pronounce his name, Da-li, not Dah-lee, with the stress on the the 'li' rather than the 'Da'.
I agree with you; I'm a 14-year (or until death, whichever comes first) copyright wacko as well. I don't believe CR should last past the life of the author, and 14 years is plenty. A second 14 year term is too much, IMHO (yes, the founding fathers went overboard). I was merely pointing out that Dali and Walt Disney started this project together as co-authors, and Walt's family will be prospering from it, while Dali's most likely won't.
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
"I don't do drugs; I am drugs."
Salvador Dali
And he was right.
Turn it on, Salvador!
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.