The Lion King
The Lion King (411/500)
This is a limited edition of 500
hand-painted character cel set-ups from Walt Disney Pictures' 32nd
animated feature film The Lion King (1994).
It is one of a series of selected limited-edition, hand-painted
recreations of original artwork from Disney animated films.
Disney artists have recreated
the artwork from The Lion King using
traditional animation techniques. Original animation drawings
were transferred to acetate cels by a special six-step
xerographic process. Artists of The Walt Disney Studios Ink and
Paint Department enhanced the cels with hand-inked lines and hand
painted each of the cels in the edition with Disney-approved
acrylic colors.
The background scene
accompanying this cel is a faithful reproduction of the original,
computer-enhanced hand-painted background used in the making of
the film. The resulting artwork has been lithographically printed
on premium-quality paper by Color Service, Inc. of Monterey Park,
California.
The Disney Animation Research
Library maintians the origibnal animation drawings and hand-painted
background. Conforming to the practice of fine-art printing, the
film used to create the background is destroyed when the edition
is completed.
Published by Disney Art Editions
in 1994, the edition consists of a general edition of 500,
numbered 1/500 to 500/500, 50 publisher's proofs, numbered PP 1/50
to PP 50/50, and 25 hors de commerce numbered HC 1/25 to HC 25/25.
There are no signed cels. This recreated cel set-up, "Family
Pride," is from Sequence 20, Scene 33.50 of The
Lion King: Simba and Nala watch as Rafiki cradles
their newborn cub in his arms, a continuation of the circle of
life.