Disney Limited Edition: Wide Grin

DISNEY LIMITED EDITION: WIDE GRIN

Daniel Arriaga

MEDIUM: Hand-Embellished Giclée Print on Canvas
SIZE: 24" x 10"
EDITION SIZE: 95
ARTIST: Daniel Arriaga
SIGNED: Hand-Signed by Artist
SKU: DFA-LE-WIDEGRIN

ABOUT THE IMAGE: As part of the Storyteller Edition this piece features the hot pink and black striped Cheshire Cat inspired by Alice in Wonderland. 

ABOUT THE MEDIUM:  Limited edition prints are reproductions of an original piece of artwork. The giclée prints on canvas are museum-quality prints that last upwards of 100 years. Giclée printing is a process that uses fade-resistant, archival inks and archival substrates to print on large format printers. The run of prints is capped at a specific number. Limited edition prints can be more valuable to art collectors than prints without a restricted number of copies because of the rarity of the prints. Each piece is hand-numbered and embellished by the artist.  Each piece also includes a Certificate of Authenticity.

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Daniel Arriaga joined Pixar Animation Studios in May 2001 as a Production Assistant in simulation & Effects on Monster's Inc. and soon became the Production Assistant on the Academy Award-winning The Incredibles. He transitioned over to the art department as a Sketch Artist on Academy Award-winning Ratatouille contributing to the character and set designs. He continued in the art department on other award-winning feature films WALL•E, Up and became Character Art Director for Toy Story 3.

In 2009, Arriaga began working with Walt Disney Animation as a Visual Development Artist on Wreck-It-Ralph, and as an Art Director for Prep and Landing 2. In 2011, he reunited with Pixar as a character designer on Academy Award-winning Inside Out and recently served as the Character Art Director on the studio's original film, Coco for which he won an Annie. As of May 6th, 2019, he started working freelance for various studios including Illumination, Warner Bros and Netflix among others. He is currently now working on a feature film being created by Kuku Studios.

Born and raised in Oakland, CA, Arriaga studied art and illustration at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. He currently resides in Dublin, CA, with his family and his two beautiful beagles and cat.

ABOUT THE FILM: Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The 13th release of Disney's animated features, the film premiered in London on July 26, 1951, and in New York City on July 28, 1951. The film features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter. Walt Disney first attempted unsuccessfully to adapt Alice into an animated feature film during the 1930s, and he revived the idea in the 1940s. The film was originally intended to be a live-action/animated film; however, Disney decided to make it an all-animated feature in 1946.