For a couple of years Animated News was the source for Disney news and a good source for Aladdin related new items often crew related. Last year the updates became infrequent and I stopped coming there. It since then got an overhaul and focused on editorial content in the form of reviews and interviews. Their lasted talk is with Disney veteran Mark Henn, the “girl guy” who animated many Disney ladies in the last 20 years including Jasmine and Tiana for those who don’t know him. In part 2 he talks about animating Belle, Jas, Young Simba down in the satellite studio in Florida while most of the animators reside in California and how commutation went between the two studios.
He doesn’t reveal anything new on how Jasmine’s design came together, he got his inspiration from his sister and Linda Larkin but I really enjoyed learning what scenes he did on Beauty and the Beast.

A year of 5 ago I frequently bought Disney Princess Magazines for their cute covers, posters and backs that at least once a year featured the Arabian desert rose. At some point the magazines focused more on the big 4, Aurora, Cinderella, Ariel and Belle ignoring Jasmine altogether. The magazines have been a great source for me to create some beautiful wallpapers, see for yourself the Wallpaper Gallery page.
But I was never able to use my favorite picture the scan has been sitting on my computer for years and I’ve looked at it hundreds of times thinking and honor the majesty of the artwork. Tonight I saw this really nice wallpaper using artwork from another issue inspiring me to take another shot at it.
Click on the thumbnail for full size then click right on the picture choose “set as background” or something similar.

I replaced my old 19″ computer monitor width a much bigger 22″ widescreen LCD screen capeble of very hight resolutions up to 1920 X 1080 pixels. That meant I needed a bigger wallpaper the ones I had are for 1024 x 768 or slightly bigger screens.

The wallpaper is from the scene where Aladdin is saying his goodbyes to Jasmine after his saved Agrabah. It’s one of the most touching and tearjerking moments in the film. I left some empty page at the bottom for icon storage. In 2007 I made a classic 1024 x 768 and and 1280 by 1024 pixel wallpapers from this same scene.

Click on the picture to load the full 1680 x 1050 wallpaper then click right on it and select set as background. The text might not be exact the same on your system.

Aladdin says goodbye 1680 1050 wallpaper

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!

Check out Pale, a music video in where Princess Jasmine is recruited by the Galifeme warrior women.

I love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtels, the 90’s cartoon is the best. And Donatello is my favorite turtle I always choose to play in the SNES video games because of his cool weapon the Bo Staff (I looked the name up). I recall Jasmine has some fighting skill with a staff too.
Talk about a crazy combination!

You might reconsise the artwork below as a standard Disney Princess coloring page that’s probably been colored by thousands of kids and a few adults. But I bet you’ve seldom seen it colored in such an amazing way.

d_princess … got a beauty cup and saucer set throught the Japanese edition of Yahoo!’s auctions. It seems stuff like this is being sold in the Toyko Disney themepark.

1Artistman uploaded test animation of Jasmine singing a few lines during the magic carpet ride sequence.
That person did a marbablous job at re-creating such a legendary piece of animation history. Jasmine is on model, her expressions match exactly the animation is fluid.

Check the video at his profile.

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.

Deviant artist shows her sexy slave Jasmine outfit complete with accoris like crown, earings and wig.

Slave Princess by ~Malro-Doll on deviantART

In this weeks Dutch Donald Duck comic magzine Rajah escapes the palace in search for princess Jasmine. Meanwhile the wizard Jafar sees a chance to sieze power.

As far as I know this is second comic starring Rajah, the last time was in a Disney Princess magazine years ago. And while the TV series has over 80 episodes made not one featured Jasmine’s pet tiger.

Like it’s common with Disney films Aladdin’s most talented voice actors had a stage history before they where cast in voice charcters like Jasmine, Jafar or guest voice in TV shows like say Mirage. After their ‘voice gig’ they happily went on to do stage shows or on/off Broadway productions some even based on animated movies from Disney. So what’s up with Lea Salonga, Jonathan Freeman, Bebe Neuwirth and their fellow actors.

Lea is going to do Allegiance, it’s a musical reading about a story of love, loss and heroism during the Japanese American internment.”

Mr. Freeman is asked to play Roger DeBris in the Producers. A show that had The Lion King’s Timon voice Nathan Lane in the past as star.

Bebe Neuwirth is casted as Morticia Adams in the upcoming musical The Addams Family. She’s joined by the previous mentioned Nathan Lane as Gomez. The is rumored to replace The Little Mermaid after it stops in August 2009.

The LA production of that same show has Abis Mal’s voice actor Jason Alexander. Albeit in LA the show isn’t taking off as it’s Broadway big sister.

Iago’s voice Gilbert Gottfried with guest narrate The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Serpent Malcho lord of the rainforest was at the time voiced by Hector Elizondo. In 2009 he is part of the cast of the revival of 1976’s Sly Fox.

Former Star Fleet captain Janeway and voice of the Galafem warriors ruler Hippsodeth ms. Kate Mulgrew has her latest production Equus ended earlier this year and just finished play diva Maria Callas in Master Class.

I think that’s about it for the bigger guest actors on Aladdin. The rest is mostly voice actors with a long long resume or TV and film actors. Enough matrial to write a seprate article sometime.

My old friend Tiger spotted a photo series on LiveJournal. The orginal author felt like placing the Disney fairytale princesses in reallife situations. Like Snow White married with 2.5 kids and bumb prince as husband. Or Aurora’s prince aged gray still waiting for his princess to wake up.

Click the thumbnail to load the large version then click right on the image and select print picture. You might what to stretch to cover most of the sheet.