Peter Pan Original Painted Inker's Test Cel: Tinkerbell

Tinkerbell

MEDIUM: Original Inker's Test Cel - Painted December 10th, 1991
PRODUCTION: Peter Pan, 1953
IMAGE SIZE: 13.75" x 10"
SKU: CCV3560

ABOUT THE IMAGE: Similar to a pencil test for rough animation, an inker's test is the first pass of the cel inking process. The ink lines on the test cel will be used as a guideline for the final line work. This inker's test was created in the 1950s for the film Peter Pan but was later painted in 1991, possibly to create the effect of a "finished" cel. A piece of 12 Field animation paper has been placed behind the inker's test as a mock background.

ABOUT THE FILM: Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated musical fantasy adventure-drama produced by Walt Disney Productions and was based on the 1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie. Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson, it is the 14^th Disney animated feature film and was originally released on February 5, 1953 by RKO Radio Pictures. Peter Pan was the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt Disney founded his own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution, later in 1953 after the film was released. Peter Pan is also the final Disney film in which all nine members of Disney's Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators. It is also the second Disney animated film starring Kathryn Beaumont, Heather Angel, and Bill Thompson, who co-starred together in the 1951 animated feature Alice in Wonderland.