Tom Scherman's Paintings

Tom Scherman was known for his model-making skills - and Tom models were impressive - but he was also a painter and did beautiful paintings of the Nautilus.

Here is a selection of Tom's paintings and if you like one in particular you will be happy to know that Rowland Scherman, Tom's brother, is doing limited collector's edition prints of the most beautiful ones. Please see the "Vulcania Treasures" section of this site for more informations on how to order them.








The next picture shows a detail of the above painting.







The two next paintings show the "Nautilus Two" a new version of Nemo's submarine.
Tom also did a model of it and you can discover it in the "Nautilus Two" section.








Sometime Tom was doing less elaborate paintings but the result is still nice and interesting, as you can see on this series of paintings below.
































This last painting is not related to 20000 Leagues under the Sea, but it's another aspect of Tom's interest for Jules Verne's books. Here he painted the "spaceship" of "From the Earth to the Moon" which as we know was in fact a cannon shell.






All paintings: copyright Tom Scherman Estate and Rowland Scherman. These pictures cannot be reproduced or posted on other sites without authorization.

Tom Scherman's Disneyland Paris Nautilus Sketches

When WDI Imagineers asked Tom Scherman to help them to build Disneyland Paris Nautilus, Tom did a series of sketches showing the inside of the mythical submarine. Let’s have a look at a selection of some of these incredibly detailed sketches. Tom made these sketches in 1993, on site during the construction of the Nautilus' interior to aid workers who were unsure of the actual details.

This first one is Tom’s sketch for the “Treasure Room” located at the entrance of the DLP Nautilus walk-through.



Here is one for the walk way to Nemo’s cabin.



He also did many different sketches for the famous diving room...











As well as for some of its elements like the load ring or the diving well.







And even more details like the ring support or a vertical pipe.





Not to mention the diving suit rack.



Tom is the one who did the diving suits that anyone can see now inside the diving chamber!

Of course he provided drawings for Nemo’s grand salon.



As well as for the grand window and other Nautilus windows and brackets...



Some details too for the salon viewport iris control...



And of course for Nemo’s pipe organ.





When guests leave Nemo’s grand salon, they find on the left a window with seaweed behind it, here is Tom’s sketch for it.



Here is two sketches for the walk way between the grand salon and the pump room - the pump room is located at the end of the Nautilus walk through.





And here is two sketches for the pump room door itself.





He knew so much the Nautilus in details that he was able to provide incredible detailed sketches on some elements like these below
































Pictures: copyright Tom Scherman - Walt Disney Imagineering - Disney Enterprises Inc. No reproduction of these pictures is allowed and thanks to don't post them on other web sites without authorization.