Due to the second world war, the project was archived until 1999 when Walt's nephew gave the production over to the small Parisian production department at Disney, Paris for this to be finished.
This is french director Dominique Monfery's first role as director. Twenty five animators were needed to figure out what Dali wanted throughout his artistic and expressionistic storyboard panels.
The short was released with Fantasia 2000.
This has since been released to Disney plus in the last month(/ months for other countries)
Though Disney is a mainstream production company, I feel as though this short has a significantly smaller reputation than most, as I feel like few children know about fantasia and it is not a popular choice among adults to watch it, especially a remastered version of it. I also think that it is not as well known because Disney are not known for putting short films inside movies and only releasing them as such, as most Disney shorts were their own entity. Now a days, only PIXAR is famously known for their shorts. So I believe Destino is only truly getting recognition now that it is on Disney Plus among the other shorts in Disney's large roster.
I like this short because of how the animation team managed to translate Dali's art style in to the animation, and how everything flowed like a painting. I think that the idea of destiny and life being 'set in stone' was an interesting story to tell, using artworks like statues to show the literal phrase can be interpreted in to history revealing the destiny of the future through the man and woman. Using artworks of statues within an animation that looks like a giant artwork itself reflect the true artistic interpretation used to create this entire animation - as the animators themselves were actively trying to artistically represent Dali and Walt's vision from 1945.
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