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Animation Feature Films Backgrounds, Balto, The Hardware Store

Gouache on board. 16 field.   Universal / Amblimation 1994 

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Balto, the eponymous hero of the film, runs into this hardware store and causes chaos. Because the store is on the shaded part of the street, I attempted to light the scene using only reflected light. 
This shot is from a sequence known as "The Barrel Sequence", which was cut from the film just after five artists had toiled over many highly detailed street scenes for more than ten weeks. Whatever happened to the fine art of storyboarding?