Was Tyrus Wong who designed the popular deer of the movie of Walt Disney.
Tyrus Wong, the designer responsible for the creation of Bambi, died on Friday, the 106-year-old.
Tyrus Wong was born in China but was 9 years old when he emigrated with his father to California, in the United States of America. Never had contact with the mother or with her sister, who stayed in China.
he Studied with a scholarship at an art school and, in 1938, he began working for the Walt Disney Studios as one of the many designers of the studios. Did, for example, a hundred episodes of the adventures of Mickey Mouse.
Drawing of Tyrus Wong for Bambi
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But the artist was very unhappy with his work. When I heard that Walt Disney was thinking of making Bambi, Wong worked at home and made a series of drawings of deer in a forest. Disney was impressed and used these designs as the main inspiration for the film. Tyrus Wong was eventually promoted and was the main animator of Bambi, a work that lasted almost two years
In 1942 when Bambi was already in theaters, in sequence, a strike of the designers in the studios, Wong left Disney and moved to Warner Brothers, where he worked as an illustrator until retirement in 1968. Among the films in which he collaborated are titles such as Calamity Jane (1953), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), The Berets Green (1968) and The Gang Wild (1969).
in Addition to working in animation, Wong was a painter, muralista, ceramist, and came to draw also the popular greeting cards of Hallmark – from some of your christmas cards were sold and more than a million copies.
In 2001, Wong was elected as a “Legend of Disney” and in 2013 his designs were exposed at the Walt Disney Family Museum. In October of this year, Wong received a career prize at the Asian World Film Festival, where it was even aired the documentary Tyrus, directed by Pam Tom:
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