Concept art for The Black Cauldron by Mel ShawDisney acquired the rights to Lloyd Alexander&rsq

Concept art for The Black Cauldron by Mel ShawDisney acquired the rights to Lloyd Alexander’s The Prydain Chronicles all the way back in 1971. Mel Shaw created many amazing, dark, and moody pieces of concept art for the adaptation but then-CEO Ron Miller didn’t believe that the fresh new staff were up to such a challenge of creating a film to match. Thus, Miller pushed the project back in order for the staff to get better skilled before tackling this adaptation.One of the young Disney artists who was upset with Disney Animation’s timidity was Don Bluth, who felt that the company was not living up to the quality of older Disney films, such as Snow White. To fulfill his ambitions, he and a bunch of other Disney artists worked on their own animated short called Banjo the Woodpile Cat. Miller wasn’t happy about this. And when Aurora Productions offered Bluth the financing to do a feature-length film in 1979, Bluth and 11 other artists left Disney.Longtime layout artist Joe Hale was then promoted to producer, and he made some major changes to the story and art direction. Along with the directors, Ted Berman and Richard Rich, they attempted to capture the style of Sleeping Beauty. Unfortunately, the movie was a box-office failure and nearly put Walt Disney Feature Animation in bankruptcy, but in the years since, The Black Cauldron has become somewhat of a cult film for some Disney fans.photo sources in captionsresearch source [x]for @thefloatingstone -- source link

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