Destino: A Cartoon Short by Disney and Dali

1. Jessica
   July 3rd, 2009 at 5:31 pm

   that was the most weirdest thing I've ever seen.

2. dutchboy
   July 3rd, 2009 at 5:57 pm

   I here its actually illegal to not smoke a doobie before watching this.

3. Sadie
   July 3rd, 2009 at 6:35 pm

   Weird. But preferable over Hannah Montana any day.

4. zav
   July 3rd, 2009 at 7:21 pm

   Ugh. People spent time on that? Might be real nice without the dali strangeness. Nice job batting the woman's head, Mr. Baseball Player.

5. StuckeyJ
   July 3rd, 2009 at 7:23 pm

   I think it would be better with more dali influence. They toned it down in the Disney process.

6. ted
   July 3rd, 2009 at 7:46 pm

   Definitely Dali-esque, but I think the original probably showed a lot more nipple.

   Goes to show you can work some of the themes in, but it just doesn't hit that sweet spot that is Dali.

7. Noelegy
   July 3rd, 2009 at 10:37 pm

   I got more of an "Aeon Flux" vibe from the "princess."

8. Christophe
   July 3rd, 2009 at 11:11 pm

   Amazing, with both artitic trends well mixed.

9. Ali S.
   July 3rd, 2009 at 11:53 pm

   I love Dali and that just tickled me pink. Still, as with everything Dali I feel like I needed to be slightly "buzzed" to get the full effect.

10. EEM
    July 4th, 2009 at 1:25 am

    Fantastic!

11. Kalel
    July 4th, 2009 at 2:35 am

    Now Disney would rather sell a dolly than a Dali.

12. Tim Giachetti
    July 4th, 2009 at 6:52 am

    Some one took the brown acid again.

13. GailW
    July 4th, 2009 at 10:11 am

    I heard/read about this at the Dali exhibit at MOMA last year. So cool to see it's come together as a finished product!

14. LisaL
    July 4th, 2009 at 10:11 am

    That was definitely strange. And I also got an Aeon Flux vibe from the girl. It was interesting.

15. Ajan
    July 5th, 2009 at 5:50 am

    awesome!

16. GQ
    July 7th, 2009 at 7:28 am

    God, that horrible CGI ruined this.

17. pjs
    July 10th, 2009 at 4:27 am

    It's neat to see I'm not the only one that got the uncanny Aeon Flux vibe on this. (At least from the short trailer on YouTube, all the others were killed off by the copyright police.) But is it because Peter Chung was influenced by Dali (there is some element of surrealism in Peter's style, so I don't doubt that), or could it even be that Peter Chung was working for Disney (and worked on this) when the animation was resurrected from the vault and finally completed from the old storyboards? That would be a fun piece of trivia to know.

    I haven't seen the full version, so I'm not sure how the CGI is. However, the idea of it doesn't seem that far out of character. From what I could guess about Dali based on what I've read about him, if he ever had access to it - he is the type that would have used it. Even if not using CGI directly to make art, definitely there would have been some collaboration with those who could help bring the vision to life. The fact he got together with Disney at one point to do animation (a media he normally doesn't work in, and the closest comparable thing to CGI of the era) would seem to support the idea.

18. Bluevibes
    July 20th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    I really liked "destino". It like nothing ever really created- something even partially close would be Animatrix. I mean, think about when this was created! And this was only a pilot- the board hadn't thought it would sell (which they were very very wrong about)and shut it down before anything really got started! This is a once in a lifetime kind of art! Dali and Walt will never again create anything together- they are gone! They were working outside of their timeline on something generations in the making! Think about it- cartoons like Elmer Fudd and Bug bunny compared to "Destino" and the magical workings within it of Dali- Tres Magnifique! Has anyone truly seen ANYTHING comparable to this? An artist who paints with a cartoonist who plays making this?! It's like our own little big bang!

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