Source/Photos: D23 official Twitter
D23 unveiled the official birthday portrait of Mickey Mouse at this past week’s San Diego Comic Con. Fans that attended the “Celebrating 90 Years of Mickey Mouse with D23: The Official Disney Fan Club” panel got the first look at this beautiful new work by Walt Disney Animation Studios animator Mark Henn.
Mickey Mouse’s 90th birthday portrait features Mickey floating high above earth holding a brightly colored bunch of balloons while spreading pixie dust across the planet. The portrait will be featured on the Fall 2018 issue of Disney twenty-three, the quarterly publication sent exclusively to Gold Members of D23 and is titled “Spreading Happiness Around the World”.
JUST REVEALED AT #SDCC2018: Celebrate 90 years of Mickey Mouse with this stunning new portrait titled “Spreading Happiness Around the World,” created by animator Mark Henn #Mickey90: https://t.co/24hD9Z21R9 pic.twitter.com/KcHqmOaqoG
— Disney D23 (@DisneyD23) July 21, 2018
Legendary Walt Disney Animation Studios animator Mark Henn follows one of Disney’s iconic artists John Hench, as the next official portrait artist. Disney Legend Hench had created the previous five official Mickey Mouse portraits.
“It is one of the great honors of my career to be asked to paint Mickey’s 90th birthday portrait,” says Henn. “I was greatly inspired by the portraits painted by John Hench. I wanted to capture some of the same style and sense of youth that John achieved in his portraits.” D23.com
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