destino (salvador dali + walt disney)

This ran on a big screen during the Dali exhibition at LACMA last year (year before?)

Interesting stuff.
 
Very cool stuff! I saw it in NY at MOMA's Dali show... 2 years ago?

Dali was so mind-bogglingly brilliant, truly creating a world of his own!
It's a shame he did not complete Destino himself.
I'm surprised Disney agreed to make it after the 1940 commercial failure of Fantasia.

Wiki:
Destino is a short animated cartoon released in 2003 by The Walt Disney Company. Destino is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual completion. The project was a collaboration between American animator Walt Disney and Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, and features music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez.

Destino (the Galician, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian word for "destiny") was storyboarded by Disney studio artist John Hench and artist Salvador Dalí for eight months in late 1945 and 1946; however, financial concerns caused Disney to cease production.

The Walt Disney Company, then Walt Disney Studios, was plagued by many financial woes in the World War II era. Hench compiled a short animation test of about 18 seconds in the hopes of rekindling Disney's interest in the project, but the production was no longer deemed financially viable and put on indefinite hiatus.

In 1999, Walt Disney's nephew Roy Edward Disney, while working on Fantasia 2000, unearthed the dormant project and decided to bring it back to life. Disney Studios France, the company's small Parisian production department, was brought on board to complete the project.

The short was produced by Baker Bloodworth and directed by French animator Dominique Monfrey in his first directorial role. A team of approximately 25 animators deciphered Dalí and Hench's cryptic storyboards (with a little help from the journals of Dalí's wife Gala Dalí and guidance from Hench himself), and finished Destino's production. The end result is mostly traditional animation, including Hench's original footage, but it also contains some computer animation. The 18 second original footage that is included in the finished product is the segment with the two tortoises.
 
Dali's brilliance lay more in self-promotion and marketing, than anywhere else.

But there was still only one Salvador Dali.
 
Sad Max said:
Dali's brilliance lay more in self-promotion and marketing, than anywhere else.
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I disagree. Dali was brilliant at self-promotion, marketing and the creation of nightmarish, surreal landscapes. Looking at his art transition from traditional/classical realism to surrealism is a fascinating journey.

And remember, he was creating this (art) as early 20th century psychiatry and theories of the unconscious mind were developing.
Who better than Dali to attempt to bring these mental landscapes to canvas and film?

And let's not forget Dali and Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou!
 
I'll check it out, thanks.
I see he also wrote essays on people from HG Wells to Gandhi:
"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, than one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals." ( from 'Reflections on Gandhi', in Shooting an Elephant, 1949)

Sorry for the threadjack, Fahad.
And, BTW, good find!
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