the-disney-elite:Original production drawings of the Fairies from the Nutcracker Suite segment of
the-disney-elite: Original production drawings of the Fairies from the Nutcracker Suite segment of Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940)“Director Sam Armstrong suggested to Walt Disney that ‘the fairies can dart around like a hummingbird, then stay poised, still in the air with their wings humming; then dart again.’“Les Clark animated the scene in which the fairy hovers around the honeysuckle, decorating it with dewdrops; and the fairies dart-and-hover movements did indeed result from Clark’s study of rapidly fluttering hummingbirds.”– an excerpt from John Culhane’s book, Walt Disney’s Fantasia -- source link