Tyrus Wong: he Died the artist who inspired the visual style of ‘Bambi’ – Daily Perú21

This Saturday, The Walt Disney Family Museum reported that the artist Tyrus Wong died in the united States to be 106 years of age through Twitter:

while Wong worked at the Walt Disney studios for only three years —between 1938 and 1941— this was time enough to leave its mark.

In its press release, the museum says that "his influence in the artistic composition of the picture of 'Bambi' can not be overlooked".

As detailed in The Country:

"While working at Walt Disney studios, and drew a great amount of sketches of the mouse, Mickey Mouse, Wong learned that he had begun the pre-production phase of the feature-length cartoon Bambi, which tells the story of a deer from birth to adulthood. Then, Wong went home and drew several sketches of a deer in a forest, the lines that give life to the character of Bambi".

The sketches impressed Walt Disney, who relied on them to produce the visual style of 'Bambi' because "there necessarily appeared to the forest, but it felt like the forest".

Here are some examples:

The career of Wong did not end in Disney. Time after went on to work for Warner Bros., where he worked in the creation of many films (such as 'Rebel without a cause' or 'Group ‘ Wild').

Tyrus Wong retired in 1968, devoting the rest of his life to creating kites flying over the Santa Monica pier, California.

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