LA Artist Imagines What It Would Be Like if Tim Burton Directed Disney Classics

An LA-based artist has reimagined Disney classics through the creatively cuh-reepy eyes of director and artist Tim Burton, giving the likes of The Little Mermaid, Snow White and Aladdin a stunning, gothic-fantasy twist in a 10-piece illustrative collection. Just quietly, Ariel’s never looked better.

Dubbed “What If Tim Burton Directed Classic Disney Movies?” artist Andrew Tarusov trumps the utopian beauty ideals of Disney with the famed, ominous-factor of Burton faves, like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, by using pencil to paper, coloured later in Photoshop. 

Kicking off the concept with a skeletal adaptation of Bambi – explaining to Refinery29 that, “After it, the whole idea came up” – the collection has strong references to the director’s existing artworks and films, including The Nightmare Before Christmas‘ spiralled cliff for Tarusov’s The Lion King adaptation.

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This isn’t Tarusov’s first Disney rodeo, though. He’s also loved for his pin-ups of Disney princesses and villains, as well as his “Cartoon Characters That Got Old” project which sees Mickey Mouse in a wheelchair, Donald Duck getting by in a walking frame and a homeless Goofy. 

Check out the Burton interpretation in the gallery below, and download the HD and photoshop files over on his online portfolio.