Form Thickening

Beefing up the small forms

In the book The Art of the Princess and the Frog, author Jeff Kurtti compares two architectural drawings.

On the left is a real Victorian house plan, drawn to scale. On the right is a layout from Disney's Lady and the Tramp (1955), showing how the smaller details, such as finials and scrollwork, were exaggerated in scale to make them read on film and con…