Ruben Procopio was a long-time Disney animator and maquette sculptor. He produced a Jessica figure for the Disney Showcase collection, through Grand Jesster, in 2009. A Jessica ‘Gallery of Light’ figure by Robert Olszewski was available in the Disney parks in 2010. In 2011, Ryuji produced a manga-styled …
Jessica maquettes were made so that the animators could visualize her from all directions for their drawings. Dave Spafford created his own maquette before he had even been assigned to the production. It was based on early character designs. Other film production figures are shown below. Jessica Rabbit has always …
There are all kinds of ‘Who framed Roger Rabbit‘ merchandise, but one of the most fun types is the snowglobe.
The 61st Annual Academy Awards presentation was held on March 29, 1989. The television show was broadcast on ABC. The opening musical number was a notorious send-up on Snow White, featuring Rob Lowe and Eileen Bowman. The next day, Walt Disney Company filed suit against AMPAS for copyright infringement in …
The ‘booby trap’ scene was storyboarded by Joe Ranft and Mark Kausler during their time at Amblin.
The Marvin Acme funeral scene was deleted, but it would have been fun to see. The storyboard drawings are by the Amblin contract artist, Marty Kline.
Hans Bacher (and Harald Siepermann) had a very different take to the escape from Toontown.
Dick Purdum was one of Richard Williams’s students and proteges at Richard Williams Animation. He was at RWA during the time that Williams brought in Art Babbitt, Grim Natwick, and Ken Harris to provide animation training and to work on The Thief and the Cobbler. As with many of the …
Joe Ranft left CalArts after his sophomore year to join Disney in 1980. He worked with Darrell Van Citters on the Fun With Mr. Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Sport Goofy in Soccermania teams. He worked for Amblin on the Toontown portion of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Ranft was a puppeteer on …
