Tyrus Wong, best known for his sketches for the Walt Disney animated feature “Bambi”, has died at age 106, according to The Walt Disney Family Museum.

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UPDATE with Art Directors Guild statement: Tyrus Wong, the artist whose spec drawings of a deer in the forest famously became the inspiration for the look of Disney's Bambi, has died. He was 106.

Walt Disney Studios’ Bambi joins its cutting-edge Blu-ray Diamond Collection line-up of animated classics, and debuts today, March 1, 2011. Disney’s new “Second Screen” technology – introduced for the ...

Wong's art has inspired young artists ever since the Disney classic debuted in 1942. "His concept for Bambi was to not draw the background in such detail but to use Chinese brushstrokes and ...

An impressive masterpiece of art and environmentalism, Bambi remains underrated, 75 years after its New York City debut, which happened on this day. That this is possible in an epoch of ...

Shaw was recruited by studio founder Walt Disney to join his team. He handed the artist a script for what would become 1942’s Bambi and said, “You like to draw animals; read this and see what ...

Disney's officially put a date on the Diamond Edition release of Bambi, which will arrive March 1, 2011 in Blu-ray/DVD combo pack edition HD download, or SD download -- DVD only packages arrive ...

A reprieve came in the late 1930s, when Mr. Wong learned that Disney was adapting “Bambi, a Life in the Woods,” the 1923 novel by Austrian writer Felix Salten about a fawn whose mother is ...