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One of my favourite places on the internet!

Andreas Deja (a legendary and renowned artist and animator in his own right) has an amazing blog where he share Disney animation treasures and history with the world. He offers wonderful insights and thoughts into these amazing artists, mostly the nine old men as well as his own works and a few other artists he is fond of.

http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/

Since discovering it back in 2017, it has been one of my favourite places on the internet, a small oasis or island paradise  in this often overwhelming sea of information that is the internet. It has also been the inspiration for me starting this blog.

Continuing in his own blogging style let’s have a look at some of his beautiful drawings from Lilo and Stitch. These were shared on his blog here which I will linked where he talks about them himself…

https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2012/08/more-lilo-stuff.html

You can really see how he picks up Chris sanders style but is still recognisably his work.

Early exploration sketches of lilo, he had so much of the personality already.

I especially love this page of Nani, a personal favourite character of mine. Love how he did these casual sitting poses. I did a sculpt of her myself.


I love these next 2 images, which Deja mentions were part of the model sheet package …



These anatomy breakdown sheets on how to approach the arms and legs are so informative!

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