Saturday, 9 May 2015

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Waking Sleeping Beauty is a film documenting Disney studios during it's fall and dramatic burst into a profitable business after Walt's death; from the animators points of view. (1984 to 1994) released in 2009.


This documentary was so lovely to watch, seeing how human the animators are and were - seeing how friendly they are and what a strong bond they have after spending 20 hour days together 7 days a week - Considering we were all just getting to know each other, seeing professionals being as silly as us in their own studios was very inspirational. Before I saw the documentary I felt sort of, lost in the world as an animator, I didn't know where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do. But After seeing the film I was really passionate (and still am) about working my way into a studio in the future.

Don Hahn narrates the documentary, known for this production work on the Lion King, beauty and the beast and most recently maleficent - both early works documented within the documentary. It was wonderful seeing all the well known artists slightly younger but still the same characters, just with a little bit more hair. John lasseter also makes a short appearance, where it's casually mentioned he was attempting to develop a 3D studio within Disney within the documentary timeline.

I found this documentary very VERY enjoyable, especially the part the studio mentioned they nick named the lion king 'African Bambi'.

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