Friday, July 10, 2009

EPCOT 25TH ANNIVERSARY - a special celebration - Original Spaceship Earth Artwork



In tribute to Epcot 25th celebration, here is the first part of a series of articles about the original artwork.
In this part one we will have a closer look to the original renderings for Epcot icon: Spaceship Earth.

We begin by this Herb Ryman painting showing the exterior above.

Next are some artwork for the cro-magnon cave sequence.




Strangely, it seems that a scene with dinosaurs was considered before being cancelled.





Here is the rendering of the egyptian temple sequence.



This one is for the Phenician scene.



Three renderings , now, for the Gutenberg press scene.





Artwork for the Michelangelo - Sixtine chapel scene.



Two artwork for a scene called "the age of invention"




The model for the telephone-telegraph scene of the "age of invention"



Let's end with three artwork for the outer space "planetarium" sequence as it was envisioned at the beginning






All artwork: copyright Disney enterprises

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