Product Description
Hidden Princess, featuring Briar Rose from Sleeping Beauty, is a limited edition giclee on paper by Victoria Ying and captures the gentle beauty of the classic Disney heroine.
About Hidden Princess artist Victoria Ying:
Disney Artist Victoria Ying was raised in Southern California watching Disney Films and reading comic books. During middle school she'd already made up her mind that she wanted a career in the arts, and went on to attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where she majored in Illustration with a minor in Entertainment Design. In her role as a Visual Development artist for Walt Disney Animation Studios, she created thousands of concepts, including numerous characters designs, environments and character costumes for films such as Tangled, Prep and Landing, Wreck-it Ralph, Frozen, Paperman, Big Hero 6, and Moana. Victoria is also the illustrator of the "Tangled" Little Golden Book and her own series, “City of Secrets and City of Illusions” and the DC series Diana Princess of the Amazons. Her most graphic novel “Hungry Ghost” was nominated for an Eisner Award. You can buy her books on her website, HERE.
About Sleeping Beauty:
Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released to theaters on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Film Distribution. The 16th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon, it was the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale (after his death, the studio returned to the genre with The Little Mermaid), as well as the last cel animated feature from Disney to be inked by hand before the studio switched to using the xerography process. It is also the first animated feature to be shot in Super Technirama 70, one of many large-format widescreen processes (only one more animated film, The Black Cauldron, has been shot in Super Technirama 70). It spent nearly the whole decade of the 1950s in production: the story work began in 1951, the dialogue was recorded in 1953, animation production took from the same year the dialogue was recorded until 1958, and the musical score by George Bruns, drawn almost entirely from the ballet Spyashchaya krasavitsa by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was recorded in the same year animation production finished. Due to a problematic production and high costs, the film was originally a box office failure, and did not make up the huge cost of the film. Along with the mixed critical reception, it was also noted to be the film that caused Walt Disney to lose interest in the animation medium. However, the subsequent re-releases proved massively successful, and critics and audiences have since praised it as a beautiful animated classic.
