Destino (2003, dir. Dominique Monféry)
DESTINO (2003) dir. Dominique Monféry
Destino (2003)
Destino (2003, dir. Dominique Monféry)
Destino & Time - Salvador Dali, Walt Disney and Pink Floyd
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Salvador Dalí in collaboration with Walt Disney - Destino
Topolino e il surreale viaggio nel destino, Topolino 2861, September 28, 2010, written by Roberto Gagnor, cover and interior art by Giorgio Cavazzano, cover colors by Marieke Ferrari
Images from the Walt Disney/Salvador Dalí collaboration, DESTINO (1946/2003).
Images from the Walt Disney/Salvador Dalí collaboration, DESTINO (1946/2003).
Destino (2003, dir. Dominique Monféry)
Destino & Time - Salvador Dali, Walt Disney and Pink Floyd
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Destino, a Short Film by Salvador Dali & Walt Disney
Destino is an animated short film released on June 2, 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 originally a collaboration between Walt Disney and Spanish Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, and features music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez and performed by Dora Luz.
Destino (Spanish for destiny) was storyboarded by Disney studio artist John Hench and artist Salvador Dalí for eight months in late 1945 and 1946; however production ceased not long after. The Walt Disney Company, then Walt Disney Studios, was plagued by financial woes in the World War II era. Hench compiled a short animation test of about 17 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 E. Disney, while working on Fantasia 2000, unearthed the dormant project and decided to bring it back to life. Walt Disney Studios Paris, the company’s small Parisian production department, was brought on board to complete the project. 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. (x)
Destino (2003, dir. Dominique Monféry)