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.

(CNN) — Tyrus Wong, best known for his sketches for the Walt Disney animated feature “Bambi”, died Friday, according to a statement released by The Walt Disney Family Museum. Wong was 106.

Bambi showing the subtle background drawn by Tyrus Wong. Credit: Disney Like the film's title character, the artist, Tyrus Wong, who has died aged 106, weathered irrevocable separation from his ...

Tyrus Wong, best known for his sketches for the Walt Disney animated feature “Bambi”, died Friday, according to a statement released by The Walt Disney Family Museum. We are deeply saddened to ...

In need of a job, he joined the Walt Disney Company in 1938. He was hired as an “inbetweener”, where he drew countless sketches of Disney’s favorite mouse.

Disney's sketches and celluloid images that did not make the cut to be featured in movies will be released to the public. Curated by film historian Daniel Kothenschulte from the Disney Archives ...

When “Bambi” premiered in London on August 9, 1942, the fifth film from Walt Disney Animation Studios broke a lot of new ground. It was the first Disney film in which a character’s parent ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The man whose drawing style inspired the classic children's film Bambi has died. CNN and the New York Times report Tyrus Wong died at age 106 on Friday. The Walt Disney Family Museum acknowledged ...