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Walt Disney Limited Editions - Beauty and the Beast - Destiny's Dance
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The Story
As the music plays, Belle and the Beast share a romantic waltz together in the magnificent castle ballroom.
About the Artwork
Beauty and the Beast was released in Autumn 1991 to critical acclaim. It was the first animated feature ever nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award, and it ultimately won two Oscars - Best Original Musical Score, and Best Song for the romantic title ballad. Written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, the song provided the film with its thematic centerpiece, a graceful walts in a fantasy ballroom that truly brings the hero and heroine of the story together in body and spirit. Over the years, this sequence, and in particular Belle in her elegant golden ball gown, have become icons of romance.
One of the most complex scenes created for an animated feature to that date, the Ballroom Scene in Beauty and the Beast featured an innovative combination of traditional hand-drawn animation (the characters) and the latest computer-generated imagery (the ballroom itself). With the computer, artists were not only able to execute an exquisitely detailed ballroom setting, creating a new standard in color and lighting for an animated feature, but also to allow the filmmakers to move the animation camera with a sweep and boldness only seen occasionally in live-action films.
Animator Glen Keane supervised the design and animation of the Beast, drawing the elements of his structure from a lion, gorilla and bear. Keane found his greatest challenge in creating a performance of simultaneous bigger-than-life power and deep emotion. James Baxter was supervising animator of Belle, assisted by Mark Henn. The two worked to bring Belle a realistic strength and independence of mind and spirit.
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