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More Concept Art From Tim Burton's ALICE IN WONDERLAND Appears Online!!

Published at:  Jun 30, 2009 10:58:52 AM CDT


Merrick here...



A few weeks back we got our first true sense of what Tim Burton's ALICE IN WONDERLAND would look like (HERE).

Now, more production from the project has gone online over at a French site. An AICN reader named Brian sent us the following message:

Dear AICN Folk,

This morning I discovered that one of my favorite blogs, The Art of Disney Animation, had posted some concept art for Burton’s upcoming ALICE film.

There was the art that had already been published in USA Today, but in super-high resolution; but, also, quite a few other pieces of concept art that I don’t remember seeing before. I thought you might be interested.

The site is in French, but it doesn’t really matter, as the real attraction is the art.

I originally found the site through a link on CartroonBrew.com some time ago. I don’t remember who the person is who runs it, sadly, but I’m pretty sure he works for Disney in some capacity, as he has an amazing collection of pre-production art, storyboards, layouts, etc. In any case, I hope you find it as interesting as I do.

http://artofdisney.canalblog.com/



The Alice stuff is in his most-recent post.











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    Readers Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:00:42 AM CDT

    This should be fun

    by darth_valinorean

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:01:19 AM CDT

    Pure psychedilic trip awaits us

    by darth_valinorean

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:03:41 AM CDT

    The character designs suck ass.

    by nice marmot

    But the concept art of the scenery is kick ass. I'll end up seeing it for sure.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:04:51 AM CDT

    Wow, that looks amazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..

    by azultool

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:07:38 AM CDT

    I like this look for Wonderland

    by d.vader

    Old and crumbling and somewhat ancient.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:08:00 AM CDT

    Verrrrry in-tuh-resting.

    by johnnyangel

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:12:06 AM CDT

    Nothing new there. . .

    by undeadrabbitzombiejim

    But the movie is still going to be freaking awesome.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:19:17 AM CDT

    Burton is a bum

    by mr soze

    Mar's attack, Sleepy hollow, Choc. factory, all shit. Ok, Ed Wood was pretty good.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:21:08 AM CDT

    Burton is still a bum

    by mr soze

    I was 11 when batman came out, It was cool at the time, but it has not aged well.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:21:26 AM CDT

    Talkback disabled in HercVault :(

    by tonagan

    I miss the witty banter about new releases.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:25:38 AM CDT

    Tim Burton needs a real director

    by spandau belly

    To pick up where his production design talent ends.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:35:34 AM CDT

    I WANT BURTON DOING OFF-BEAT STUFF LIKE ED WOOD AND SWEENEY TODD

    by charlesthomasmathews1978

    Those are his two best movies and they didn't seem like atypical projects for Burton but they turned out to be perfect. Alice in Wonderland, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, just feels like Burton coasting on projects that you'd excpect him to do. I'm sure the movie will be good as I have never been dissapointed by any of his movies but I'd like to see a bit more original work.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 11:36:50 AM CDT

    Mr Soze, I WAS THE SAME AGE WHEN I SAW BATMAN....

    by charlesthomasmathews1978

    And I remember seeing that movie like it was yesterday.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 11:40:30 AM CDT

    Soze

    by willardgreensthunderballs

    Beetlejuice, Big Fish, Sweeny, Big Adventure, Batman, Scissorhands, plus his production work...
    Bum? Where have you been?

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  • Jun 30, 2009 11:41:55 AM CDT

    Jesus Christ

    by dancetothebeatofthelivingdead

    It's bad enough that the only things that are posted on this site are things are lifted from other sites, now the readers of this site are beating you guys to the punch too!

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:42:38 AM CDT

    Batman 89 has indeed aged badly...

    by bouncy x

    but i dont think anything in any Batman movie will ever beat the cool shot where the Batwing stops in front of the moon and created the logo. that's an awesome shot just as a standalone picture but even the sequence itself, how the music stops for a few seconds while it hovers there and then falls down.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 11:42:45 AM CDT

    Burton licks bum.

    by mr soze

    What really pissed me off about Burton was Mar's attacks. Look at that cast and it was total garbage of a movie. And then Sleepy Hollow where Icabad Crane lives at the end! Are you kidding me???

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 11:46:28 AM CDT

    Edward Penis Hands was pretty lame too.

    by mr soze

    Beetlejuice was good, not great but good.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 12:02:25 PM CDT

    Burton has made *3* stinkers in his career...

    by jackknifed_juggernaut

    don't think i'd place him in 'bum' territory. 'Sweeney' was brilliant, and everything i've seen thus far on 'Alice' indicates that he's swinging for the fences yet again. some of you fuckers just don't like a goddamned thing, regardless of what it is or who's behind it.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 12:02:56 PM CDT

    He should of made this before Willy Wonka.

    by herbwestaustin

    or actually not do Willy at all.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 12:17:27 PM CDT

    For dark is the suede that mows like...a harvest

    by nasty in the pasty

  • Jun 30, 2009 12:18:19 PM CDT

    Jackoff _juggernaut.

    by mr soze

    Which 3 are stinkers???

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 12:20:23 PM CDT

    Burton has made *3* stinkers in his career...

    by jackknifed_juggernaut

    don't think i'd place him in 'bum' territory. 'Sweeney' was brilliant, and everything i've seen thus far on 'Alice' indicates that he's swinging for the fences yet again. some of you fuckers just don't like a goddamned thing, regardless of what it is or who's behind it.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 12:22:04 PM CDT

    Wonka was a miss-step only because of Depp

    by j.b.m.a.

    Burtons vision was in fact far more faithful to the fantastic Dahl book than the frankly cock-awful Wilder movie (of which Wilder is the ONLY good thing).Sadly Johnny had to go and play Wonka as some weird, spiteful pastiche of Michael Jackson and ruin everything. I don't doubt that if Burton had the chance to make 'The Great Glass Elevator' it would be superb.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 12:22:50 PM CDT

    damn double post!

    by jackknifed_juggernaut

  • Jun 30, 2009 12:25:59 PM CDT

    Soze... POTA, Charlie, and Mars.

    by jackknifed_juggernaut

  • Jun 30, 2009 12:26:03 PM CDT

    so is American McGee going to sue, or what?

    by cap'n jack

  • Jun 30, 2009 12:27:26 PM CDT

    J.B.M.A.

    by mr soze

    Depp was the only thing going in that shitfest. Besides the midget of course.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 12:30:52 PM CDT

    Bums don't make Pee Wee's Big Adventure

    by deadpanwalking

    One of the greatest cinematic achievements of our time. Also re: Burton's Batman. We'll be hard-pressed to see a better Catwoman than Pfeiffer (but I wouldn't put it past Nolan after his casting of the Joker. I don't get all the Burton bashing. There are PLENTY of people to bash in Hollywood, but by and large, Burton's done some good stuff.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 12:42:28 PM CDT

    I know I'm in the minority with this opinion...

    by dogrobber

    ...and while I love the design, cinematography, and sheer imagination behind Mr. Burton's movies, I find them somehow hollow or empty, like there should be more depth to them (except, oddly, for his animated work). Has Mr. Burton done any films where he was 'just' a production designer?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 1:09:00 PM CDT

    Talkbackers hate imagination

    by captainaxis

    and creativity. Were you all molested as children?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 1:11:32 PM CDT

    Never been much of a Burton fan...

    by shepard wong

    This looks like everything else he does. Would there be any difference in the film if Burton himself made it or a talented imitator? Yes, the film would look the same but would have competent direction and storytelling.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 1:13:21 PM CDT

    Jaded or optimistic?

    by dapper swindler

    Alice in Wonderland is either a Tim Burton cliche been-there-done-that or it's the movie he was born to direct.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 1:17:43 PM CDT

    I'm with DeadPanWalking.

    by azlam orlandu

    Pee Wee's Big Adventure is the shit.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 1:27:56 PM CDT

    I'm trying to use the phoooooooooooone!!!!!!!!

    by darthpigman

  • Jun 30, 2009 1:54:33 PM CDT

    American McGee in London

    by mitortilla

  • Jun 30, 2009 2:26:49 PM CDT

    Give some points for originality

    by johnnyangel

    Burton's movies all look unique whatever else may be wrong with them. I'm pretty jazzed about this movie. I saw Sleepy Hollow the other night on TV and Christopher Walken's Headless Horseman made the whole flick well worth watching, despite numerous other flaws.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 2:30:37 PM CDT

    Memo to Burton: GIVE US BEETLEJUICE 2!!

    by zombieheathledger

    "I'm the ghost with the most, babe..."

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  • Jun 30, 2009 2:35:40 PM CDT

    Overrated!

    by dr gregory house

    Am I 'cool' yet?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 2:36:07 PM CDT

    Cap'n Jack ... American McGee doesn't own "dark" Alice

    by murdermostfowl

    All of Lewis Carroll's works are in the public domain, and just because Ameican McGee made a version of his own that is dark and distrorted characters that roughly follows the story of Alice in Wonderland ( despite the main character being in an insane asylum )
    doesn't mean that some other dark and distorted version of the same source is infringement.
    as a comparison, Disney's Aladdin and the knockoff cartoon that came out at the same time are both based visually and storyline wise on the Thief of Bagdad ( also in the public domain )

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  • Jun 30, 2009 2:37:57 PM CDT

    If you are one of the People in this talk back

    by theycallmemrtibbs

    shitting on Burton,

    You're obviously bored and have nothing else to do.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 3:23:13 PM CDT

    If you are one of the People in this talk back

    by morganleafy

    shitting on Burton,
    then you obviously know nothing about good movies. Some of these talkbacks are as predictable as a hangover after a bottle of whisky.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 3:31:55 PM CDT

    NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

    by lockesbrokenleg

    Shit, this will be awful. Judging by the pic I am sure this will be another weird emo shitfest.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 3:38:58 PM CDT

    Completely Uninteresting

    by jupstin

    There is nothing at all unique about any of this art. It almost all looks like it could have been for the Disney version

    Reply to Talkback

  • He lived at the end of the cartoon as well. He disappeared yes but he also lived.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 5:30:49 PM CDT

    is that a ....... CURTAIN?!?!?!

    by outlawsdelejos

  • Jun 30, 2009 8:49:29 PM CDT

    BEETLEJUICE 2

    by gibsonusa returns

  • Jun 30, 2009 9:01:03 PM CDT

    Dim Birdbrain

    by ricky retardo

    What a HACK!!!!!!

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 9:38:31 PM CDT

    WHERE'S THE GODDAMN CHESHIRE CAT?

    by my_iq_is_135

    I'm dying to figure out what he looks like. He's the only reason I'm gonna watch this movie.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Jun 30, 2009 10:44:14 PM CDT

    Tim Burton is an overrated douche

    by raidahguy

    Movies that suck ass: Mars attacks (Cast was wonderful, so why the fuck did it suck ass??!!), Sleepy Hollow (Unoriginal drab piece of shit), Planet of The Apes (Ruined what could have been a great franchise)-Cornelius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), Beetlejuice (Ridiculous), Batman (was good at the time, but has not aged well and miscasted Keaton as Batsy. He's supposed to be a playboy, not a abalding guy who played Beetlejuice), Batman 2 (I thought it sucked ass when I first saw it and still do. Penguins carry off the Penguin when he dies, wtf?!), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Same as Sleepy Hollow). Ill give him Scissorhands, but that is it. Fuck you Burton, your films may be visually dazzling at times, but you do not know how to flesh out a story and bring it all together.

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  • Jun 30, 2009 11:12:13 PM CDT

    I Loved Some Burton Movies, But Probably Dislike More

    by gordosan#1

    Won't mention the bad, but I love Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Edward Scisorhands, and Ed Wood, and really liked Big Fish, Corpse Bride, and Sweeny Todd. The rest are pretty not good.

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  • Jul 01, 2009 6:16:16 AM CDT

    Burton's Twisted M.O.

    by puto tenax

    He likes putting a twist on everything he does in a film-Keaton as Batman, the exteriors in Scissorhands, etc. There's always something out of place in his movies-I think Alice will be one of his best. And Tim, it's time to work on Dark Shadows-make it R.

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  • Jul 01, 2009 6:17:57 AM CDT

    Whatever the result, it'll certainly look amazing.

    by mr nicholas

  • Jul 01, 2009 7:01:32 AM CDT

    3D?

    by mikewilliamson

    The fourth picture there is in 3D. Has there been any talk of Burton's ALICE having 3D sequences?

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  • Jul 01, 2009 3:55:34 PM CDT

    Jumped off the Burton train a long tine ago

    by lockesbrokenleg

    He just kept doing the same old shit. Mars Attacks was the last Burton show I made myself suffer through.

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