Robin Hood (1973)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Robin Hood (1973) 
original production animation drawing
blue and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 7.75" x 5.75" including signature

This lively rough animation drawing of Skippy, the proud and determined boy rabbit who joins in the film's climactic final battle in the prison courtyard, was created by great Disney animator Frank Thomas in development of a scene in the animated feature. It is one of Mr. Thomas' extreme drawings with grid at lower right. Master Animator Frank Thomas, one of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men, was a directing animator on this and many other Disney films, and he signed his drawing in pencil below the image. The animator wrote the designation "C-33" at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene.