Over at the LiveJournal community Agrabah arielstreasures shared unique sketches of Princess Jasmine she scanned from a French making of Disney heroines back she got from her libary. Fans of Meg and Belle should keep an eye out, arielstreasures hopes to scan their sketches too.

The drawings show Jasmine using her body and looks to get what she wants. First the scene on her balcony she makes a move to the unexpecting Aladdin preteding to be impressed by his babble. And later she comes on to Jafar to disctact him.
Making a move to Aladdin
Then she pulled his cape up and over his head
Making her move to Jafar
Amazing!

As you might know in an earlier script the peddler would reveal himself to be genie. A demo of Arabian Nights Reprise ended up on Music Behind the Magic, a four cd box with music and songs from The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. This set included Proud of Your Boy and various other songs that didn’t make it to final film like Humiliate the Boy and Count on Me all three where on the special edition DVD. A missed opportunity was to include this song with storyboards.

The creators of Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the third and last Aladdin film in where Aladdin meets his long last father Cassim and finally marries Jasmine, liked the song so much they used at the end of the film. This and the marriage scene made me often feel a bit down when I thought that there would be no more Aladdin after this. Al and co made a few cameo appearances and Jasmine got her own little film but it’s not the same.

Tory described on here LiveJournal blog how lucky she was to be few who got to the exclusive showing of Princess and the Frog on the Disney lot in LA on Thanksgiving. From the reviews I’ve read it looks like Disney finally refound some of their magic back, Princess and the Frog is prasied to stand firm besides the 90’s films. The tomatometer on Rottentomatos rates it 88% with an average rating of 7.1/10.

Anyway after the movie there was an even more exclusive tour throught an exibit full of items uses to make Disney movies from Glen Close’s red dress in 101 Dalmations to Gissele blue dress from Enchanted that and lots of artwork from the animated films. Including, and here comes it, 3 concept art pieces. She als had a meet n’ greet with Jasmine talking about Aladdin giving Rajah a bath all by himself. Sounds like a fun conversation!

A couple of screenshots of clean-up and rough animation stages on the movie’s key songs and Jafar sneaking out of his secret lab.

Source: Unsung Heroes of the Clean-Up Deparment on the second disc from Aladdin Platinum Edition.

In his later years Joe Grant contributed to some of the hit 90’s Disney films like Aladdin. This after leaving Disney Studios in 1949

Animators at Work gives us a glimpse back in time as we see many big names in the animation industry doing what they do best: draw. Besides Joe Animators at Work has photos of some major Aladdin players to name a few Mark Henn, Nik Ranieri, Andreas Deja, Eric Goldberg, Will Finn and Kathy Zielenski.

alafastanzio wrote detailed article diving how Princess Jasmine came to life.

For the long time fans of Princess Jasmine and the film she originates in there’s nothing in the article you couldn’t have learned from other sources. For those who are new to the fandom I suggest you pick up a copy of Aladdin: Making of an animated film making of book that was published in 1993. The Pretty In Ink Entertainment Weekly article in the December 1992 issue is gives you a good idea how Jasmine was formed. The second disc of the 2004 special edition DVD reveals some more behind the scenes information on Jasmine.

Jim Hill’s regular animation veteran Floyd Norman gives us an interesting insight in the time it takes to develop an idea into a workable script or decent storyboards. I know that it took many people to contribute story ideas before Aladdin became the story that we saw in the finished film. First pitched by Howard Ashman then later re-wrote by Beauty and the Beast writer Linda Wolverton before the final screenplay took shape by the hands of Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio and the producers/directors Ron & John.

Shanito got sight on a small collection of exclusive-impossible-to-find color keys of our favorite Disney feature film. $1500.- each.

Blogger Rob Richards from Animation Backgrounds posted 7 backgrounds from Aladdin. He used a painstaking technique by layering multiple frames over each other then erasing parts that don’t fit. Usually that means characters that obscure the background. He explained how he does that in this post using Mary Poppins as an example.

Jason Anders talks with people in the animation industy to publish them on Full Circle Productions. This week he published his conversation with Rajah lead animator Aaron Blaise on his career.
On bringing the royal feline to live Aaron said:

During the design process, I did hundreds of tiger designs, trying to achieve the fluid Hershfeld look that the film’s art direction was trying to achieve. I was struggling until one day I saw the hood ornament on a Jaguar car. The little sculpture had a lot of the qualities I was trying to achieve in my designs. I drew a lot of inspiration from that little piece of metal on the hood of a car! My designs were soon approved!

Tip by Heather

Hans Bacher worked for Disney Feature Animation from the the late 80’s throughout the late 90’s giving him credits on quite a few golden 1990’s films that came out the studio during that time. As production designer he helped shape the movie’s atmosphere with color and shape.
For Aladdin he did some background and key scenes impressions.
The rest of his blog One1more2time3 at Wordpress.com is pretty much dedicated to Bambi. Hans has the most breathtaking backgrounds. You’ll find some Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Hercules and Mulan artwork roaming on his blog as well.

Source: AC MB

Drawn2gether, an animation blog run by a handful of (ex) Disney animators remising working at Disney during the second golden age of animation. Roughly 10 years from The Little Mermaid (1989) up to Tarzan (1999). In the archive for Aladdin I foundsketches of the Magic Carpet by Eb Gombert, he made one of the earliest storyboards and character sketches. Of course because it’s a rug the design didn’t change that much as the production hummed along. The post reveals that Tom Cardone did Carpet’s Arabian pattern design for the table cloth. IMDB credits him as background artist for a number of Disney productions up to The Little Matchgirl.

While I had to settle with my first and probably snow globe, it was 50% off, Prince_Ali_Fan got the real goodies. A cast yearbook of Aladdin, the animation crew, specially the supervisions, seemed to have much fun drawing, re-drawing, re-drawing and re-drawing again over and over again. Specially the studio boss, the famous Jeffery “Shrek” Katzenberg, had the artists make constant changes in their drawings. Even the directors weren’t left alone as your’ll on see the images below. More scans at Aladdin Fan Livejoural Community.

The Disney Channel version of The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World just appeared on YouTube. The picture quality is to be desired but still watchable. Hosted by John Rhys-Davies who would provide the voice of Cassim in the third and final film he narrates the documentary. We hear and see the directors/writers/producers, the supervising animators, lyricist Tim Rice and composer Alan Menken talk about the creation of the film.
Overall it doesn’t reveal anything that didn’t make it to the DVD but watching it is amazing. Watch even younger Ron, John, Glen and rest in the Making of The Little Mermaid hosted by Alyssa Milano.

princeali_m_fan got hold of a few DVD’s filled with making of material ranging from workprints to pencil tests even storyboards. Aladdin is meaner in early drafts while Jasmine appears to be more obivous on the things going on around her like Jafar’s plot to seize her father’s throne and she makes it obivous she can’t stand Jafar.

Script changes including

“Aladdin just referred to himself and Abu as the greatest thieves in Agrabah.”
“Jasmine made Aladdin spit out watermelon seeds when he saw her for the first time in the marketplace ”
“Jasmine: That man wouldn’t have really have cut off my hand…would he? D:
Aladdin: Haha, naw. Probably just a couple of fingers
Jasmine: …..DDDDDD:”
Shiera has more highlights on the Agrabah LiveJournal community. Now let’s she hope she can get pictures.