Comments on: Destino: A Cartoon Short by Disney and Dali

By: Bluevibes

Bluevibes — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:19:34 +0000

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!

By: pjs

pjs — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:27:32 +0000

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.

By: GQ

GQ — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:28:58 +0000

God, that horrible CGI ruined this.

By: Ajan

Ajan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:50:29 +0000

awesome!

By: GailW

GailW — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:11:09 +0000

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!

By: LisaL

LisaL — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:11:09 +0000

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

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:52:36 +0000

Some one took the brown acid again.

By: Kalel

Kalel — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:35:51 +0000

Now Disney would rather sell a dolly than a Dali.

By: EEM

EEM — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:25:27 +0000

Fantastic!

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:53:18 +0000

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.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:11:15 +0000

Amazing, with both artitic trends well mixed.

By: Noelegy

Noelegy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:37:31 +0000

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

By: ted

ted — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:46:49 +0000

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.

By: StuckeyJ

StuckeyJ — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:23:20 +0000

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

By: zav

zav — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:21:04 +0000

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

By: Sadie

Sadie — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:35:59 +0000

Weird. But preferable over Hannah Montana any day.

By: dutchboy

dutchboy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:57:21 +0000

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

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:17 +0000

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