A striking example of these types of progressions can be recognized in the background paintings produced at the Walt Disney Studio between 1928 and 1942.
http://www.animationartconservation.com/blade_of_grass.html


Artists.
A layout artist works in conjunction with the director to determine what will be in each scene, how each character will look, and how the story can best be broken into scenes. Once this process is complete, the layout artists prepare drawings to guide the background artists and animators.

http://library.thinkquest.org/10015/data/info/reference/tech...
http://www.digitalmadhouse.com/pages/cells.htm

Associate of Arts in Animation | Background Painting

Program Description
Our students learn from the best in the industry; we draw our instructors, guest lecturers and advisory board members from award winners and world leading production facilities. Our curriculum is designed by our board members and industry professionals so that students learn the skills that are in demand today.

http://online.academyart.edu/aa_anm_bgpainting.html

is primarily an art book - a showcase for story sketches, inspirational paintings, rough and finished animation drawings, cels and background paintings drawn from the Walt Disney Animation Research Library and private collections around the world, including many never-before-published images.
http://www.alaska.net/~animate/resource/books3.htm

The meticulously detailed background Paintings are so lavish and opulent as to defy description. The magnificently animated labyrinth of a city will dazzle you with it's riotous, psychedelic explosions of color. Audiences haven't seen a city presented like this
http://www.theblackmoon.com/Deadmoon/metro.htm


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