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 Here’s a beautiful pencil animated scene that was cut from Lilo and Stitch. It’s rather crazy to me that a scene as powerful and important as this, that has been taken this far through production then got cut. The themes are very moving and it’s quite a statement in itself to decide to not include it. Someone had to watch this scene, understand the message and then say “nah let’s not go there”   I’m not sure who the animators were on this, Andreas Deja was main animator for Lilo so that’s not a bad guess, that he might of been involved. I suspect it was multiple animators, as it’s really multiple shots / characters that could be handled by different people. Anyway the animation is superb…

Again these can all be found on Andrea’s deja blog with much more interesting and informative comments.  https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2011/10/milt-kahl-crowd-scenes.html Adding this post here so I can come back to reference it again later along with the drawings all in one place. I appreciate this blog is very derivative of  Andreas Deja’s with posts like this but this will probs be a common theme with this blog, most of the stuff I’m adding can be found elsewhere on the internet but I just want to compile the stuff I like somewhere for myself to be able to reference. Such a masterclass of animation, I will be studying these extensively!

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 l...