The other week I promised a few more Herb Ryman visual development paintings from Disney parks (see Ryman-esque Painting). And I always make good on my promises.
Here's one of Cinderella's Castle from the Magic Kingdom in Florida's Walt Disney World Resort. Pretty spot-on to the castle they ended up constructing, eh?
But this painting here is my favorite. Ryman painted this one of Spaceship Earth at Epcot (formerly EPCOT Center) in 1964 - eighteen years before the park opened.
Now, granted, the geodesic sphere took twenty-six months to build (why in the world do I know that off the top of my head? It's true - look it up for yourself). But still, Ryman knew what EPCOT Center was going to look like a good decade and a half before everyone else.
