Disney celebrates 20 years of Finding Nemo with a series of concept arts

“Swim straight ahead!”

“The craziest Pixar. The most adventurous. The comic ease, the roller-coaster adventure, the killer concept, the cartoon spirit. Everything falls just right, moving when it’s needed, always fast and inventive. Constantly funny.”

The world of Nemothe animated masterpiece ofAndrew Stanton And Lee Unkrich, was released in French theaters just 20 years ago, attracting more than 9 million curious people to the cinema.

First has still not recovered: at the time of rank Pixar from worst to bestthis underwater adventure film was placed very high. “It’s the escapades of McCay’s Little Nemo, it’s the best Walt Disney, coupled with Kubrickian suspense, armored with chases and movie-loving winks (Jaws, Abyss), we also wrote in our review. And above all: this unstoppable fun. The shark ga(n)g (“fish are our friends”), Dory the amnesiac, Dory the investigator (“P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sidney”), the pelicans, the escape from the fishbowl, the singing teacher, the “bubbles”, the turtles, Darla… A world film. Inexhaustible.”

To celebrate this anniversary, Disney shared around ten concept arts this weekend, showing the key characters of the animated film from their first preparatory drawings to the final result. We thus find the evolution of Nemo, Dory, Marin, Bruce the shark or Crush the turtle. We bring them together below.

The world of Nemo can be (re)watched on First Max.