Mel Shaw and Burny Mattinson

Short Excepts From Varous Sources

Jim Korkis:  After graduating high school, Burny Mattinson took a job in “Traffic” (generally delivering mail and doing errands) at Disney Studios in 1953 hoping to someday pursue a career as an animator.
He became an inbetweener for the animated feature Lady and the Tramp (1955). He worked his way up to assistant animator working under Disney Legend Eric Larson. He became a character animator on Robin Hood (1973)
.However, Mattinson’s real passion and expertise was storyboarding.
 Disney Legend Frank Thomas saw Mattinson’s thumbnail sketches for Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, Too (1974) and asked him to help on the storyboarding for the animated feature The Rescuers (1977).
That opportunity led to him storyboarding The Fox and the Hound (1981) and The Black Cauldron (1985).

https://www.mouseplanet.com/11965/Mickeys_Christmas_Carol

Jim Korkis’ Animation Anecdotes #265:
When it came to doing The Black Cauldron (1985),
part of the five volumes of Lloyd Alexander’s The Prydain Chronicles, storyman Mel Shaw was given the task to read all the books and condense all the heroes,
villains and storylines into a workable cinematic story.
He made close to 250 colored pastel sketches of key dramatic moments and put them onto 35mm slides and then synchronized the slides to a recording of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (and some other music).
This resulted in a twenty-minute presentation for Shaw to pitch the story of a young boy’s quest for a sinister cauldron that must be destroyed.

http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/animation-anecdotes-265/



                                   here is a collection of artwork By Mel Shaw.                                                                                  and far below is Burny Mattinson's Storyboard art for the film.
   (If you know those storyboard drawings below aren't Burny's, please correct me if I;m wrong.)