Walt Peregoy - Chanticleer concept artwork, c. 1960s
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Walt Peregoy, Disney Animator 1950's-60's
"My style was unusual for Walt Disney, but he tolerated me," Peregoy says. Although, since he was "tolerated" for 14 years, the artist sheepishly admits, "I had to be doing something right."
Born in Los Angeles in 1925, Walt Peregoy spent his early childhood on a small island in San Francisco Bay. He was nine years old when he began his formal art training, attending Saturday classes at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley. When he was 12 years old, Peregoy's family returned to Los Angeles, where he enrolled in Chouinard Art Institute's life drawing classes. At age 17, he dropped out of high school and went to work for Disney as an in-betweener.
In 1951, with a young family in tow, Peregoy returned to the United States, and resumed his career with The Walt Disney Studios. Initially, he served as a designer and animator on Peter Pan (1952) and Lady and the Tramp (1955).
"To this day, Walt Peregoy's color styling in 101 Dalmatians (1961) remains a fine example of how color can be used creatively in animation while serving more than a merely decorative function," says modern animation authority Amid Amidi.
Peregoy continued at Disney on the features The Sword in the Stone (1963), Mary Poppins (1964), and The Jungle Book (1967) Peregoy's unique style meshed well with that of his contemporary, stylist Eyvind Earle, and their work on the Academy Award®-nominated short Paul Bunyan (1958) was a departure for Disney.
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5 images importantes pour moi :
1. Concept art pour Les 101 Dalmatiens par Walt Peregoy, Disney, 1961
2. Photographie de la Nana danseuse de Niki de Saint Phalle, 1995
3. Capture d'écran du film L'Été de Kikujiro de Kitano, 1999
4. Scan de la bande dessinée Pico Bogue : Restons calmes de Alexis Dormal & Dominique Roques, 2013
5. Gravité de Preljocaj, 2018
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Concept art for The Land at EPCOT by Walt Peregoy, 1981
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The Sword in the Stone (1963) - Backgrounds
Layout: Don Griffith, Basil Davidovich, Vance Gerry, Sylvia Cobb,Dale Barnhart, Homer Jonas
Background: Walt Peregoy, Bill Layne, Al Dempster, Anthony Rizzo, Ralph Hulett, Fil Mottola
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101 Dalmatians Colour Key/Concept Artwork, 1961
Artwork by Walt Peregoy
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The stylized background work of 101 Dalmatians, under Ken Anderson’s direction
Paula Sigman: Ken Anderson in 101 Dalmatians brought a whole different look… very angular and abstract. It’s very modern in its look.
Ken Anderson: It was the first use of Xerox line on any kind of a feature picture, and I personally loved the idea of seeing an animation drawing in Xerox, so then I tried to make it one world by doing the same thing with the backgrounds.
Brad Bird: And a guy named Ernie Nordli went over the backgrounds and made perfect symmetrical things a little asymmetrical and fattened some things up and gave it a little more of a caricatured quality. It’s a subtle effect. His drawings were then Xeroxed and placed over the background painting to bring it all together and make it all feel like it all had the same graphic quality as the foreground characters.
Brad Bird: There’s something very sophisticated about using the impression of a shape to be where your color is defined. While it looks simpler, it’s actually very hard to do well. And Walt Peregoy had a real knack for that, and I think Ken Anderson recognized that in Peregoy and let him go to town.
Floyd Norman: And I think what Ken Anderson, Walt Peregoy gave us with Dalmatians really fit that story, and I think it’s a great-looking film. Then we find out that much to our surprise that Walt was not all that pleased with it. And poor Ken Anderson, boy, he really suffered for that film because I think having Walt being displeased with your work is probably the worst thing that could happen to any Disney artist.
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