ABSTRACT
Maquettes were first produced at the Walt Disney Studio in the 1930s to enable the animators to draw animated characters from any angle. A special Model Department was established at the request of Walt Disney by Joe Grant, a top caricaturist, character designer, and story man. Some maquettes for the Seven Dwarfs had movable wooden joints, but plaster or clay soon became the standard construction material. PINOCCHIO’s maquettes included full-sized functioning clocks for Geppetto’s workshop and a life-sized wooden marionette of Pinocchio. A fully articulated wooden maquette of Bambi as a fawn had its construction based on traditional wooden artist’s models.
