Disney & Dalí short 'Destino'

In 1946, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí teamed up to create the short film Destino. Unfortunately Disney ran into financial difficulties and the piece was never finished. 57 years later, Disney animators have teamed up to finish the work.

"We wanted to be true to its original design and concept of 1945, and we were careful and not liberal with the use of CG," he said. "We used CG very specifically to preserve a look that represented what we think Dalí and Walt would have tried to create."

 

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The art of: Ivan Titor

I came across this artist some time ago on the BeinArt.org collective. A truly great example of mathematical surrealism, which very much cannot help but remind you of Escher. Working with such difficult shapes and geometric perfection with oils seems like an almost impossible task. If you have a spare thirty minutes give his website a look, there are his works, pictures from the studio and exhibitions where you can go to view his work.

"In my paintings I prefer balancing on an imaginary edge that, in our minds, divides reality and fiction, the beginning and the end, as well as order and chaos. Recently I have been making two parallel pictorial cycles. On the one hand, there are paintings depicting fragments of rationally organized matter in unidentified space, on the other hand there are self - portraits mirroring current news from the real world."

View his site here.