Winnie the Pooh & Friends From Paper to Small Screen to Big Screen
Winnie-the-Pooh is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne.
Pooh is the main character in Milne’s books:
(published in 1926)
(published in 1928)
The setting of the stories is based on the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England.
The Hundred Acre Woods
Some of Pooh Bear's friends include
Roo
Kanga Tigger
Piglet
Rabbit Eeyore
Owl
The books written by A. A. Milne were illustrated by E.H. Shepard
The first editions of the books contained simple line drawings.
Shepard colored his original line drawings for new editions of Winnie the Pooh (1974)
‘The Pooh Story Book’ (1976) contained new line & color pictures by Shepard.
The Pooh stories were later made into a series of Winnie the Pooh featurettes produced by Walt Disney Productions.
Released in 1966 Released in 1968
Released in 1974 Released in 1983
Disney’s animators made that “silly ol’ bear” and his friends come to life!
Not much shading!
Notice that everything is outlined in black!
“The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh”
Comprised of the 1st three short films Pooh’s 1st full-length feature film Released on video in 1977
25th Anniversary Edition trailer
Released again in 2002 on DVD as the 25th Anniversary Edition
Disney’s
“The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh” TV series Aired on ABC from 1988 - 1991 Based on “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh” movie Characters are rather “flat”.
Very bright colors!
Walt Disney presents
“The Tigger Movie” First time Pooh and friends are on “the big screen” Released to theaters in 2000 Nearly 60% of animation done by Japanese artists Light and airy watercolor background
More detail added to artwork
More interesting and elaborate moves
Walt Disney presents
“Pooh’s Heffalump Movie” Most recent Pooh animation Shown in theaters in 2005 Characters are more 3-dimensional
See how Pooh has changed!
The End
By JoDitt Williams 2006
Silly ol’ bear!
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