The Art of Animation
Beginning in 1923, Disney’s Ink
& Paint Department helped create classic animated films. Its artists
brought life to countless memorable characters, including many iconic Disney
villains.
One of the first groups of its
kind, Disney’s Ink & Paint Department was yet another stop on the road to
creating an animated film. After the animators’ pencil drawings were finished,
they went to Ink and Paint. There, highly specialized artists meticulously
recreated each pencil line in ink, capturing every nuanced movement and
expression. At first, artists used black and white, and later shades of gray to
“color” each celluloid or cel. In the early 1930s, the artists began using rich
colors on the animation cels.
The last full-length animated
Disney film to use the hand-painted cel process was The Little Mermaid
(1989). Beauty and the Beast (1991) and The Lion King (1994) were
hand drawn. The original pencil drawings for those films were then scanned and
painted digitally. For these stamps, the characters Gaston (Beauty and the
Beast) and Scar (The Lion King) have been recreated using
traditional ink and paint techniques.
Art director Derry Noyes of
Washington, DC, designed the issuance.
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