I just returned from a trip to San Francisco. The fabulous Walt Disney Family Museum invited me to co present the visual development of the classic film "Bambi". It was a lot of fun.
I want to give you some information about this beautiful museum in my next post.
In the meantime, here are a few character designs I did just a few years ago at Disney for a project that was eventually shelved.
The story was set in London, and house pets were the main characters. I don't recall all that much about the story, but a neighborhood pet went missing, and so a large cat named Oscar and a cockatoo named Corrina went on a mission to solve the mystery. On their quest they would encounter a variety of animals, some of which would offer some help to those two, others not so much.
I enjoyed exploring these animal types.
UPDATE: Check out Hans Bacher's fantastic color environment studies for this film:
http://one1more2time3.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/down-the-drain/
Wonderful stuff Andreas!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is great! Someone please convince Disney to pull this back off the shelf, and make a movie out of it. Andreas, I hope you get to be the director of animation if they do! ;)
ReplyDeleteThey are all great but 'Erwin' is my favourite. Yep, wonderful stuff!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, new post are surely waited. Awesome and so funny characters! And how superb drawn :D Especially Mr Bailey and Erwin! What great expressions. Loved to see those animated.
ReplyDeleteI loved Sam. For its gestures you can image a graspy and funny voice. Were those made in watercolor and ink? Thanks for the post!
ReplyDeleteI made these with ink and magic markers. You can get a sort of watercolor look with them.
DeleteBeautiful variation of line weight. There's a lot to be learned by looking at these drawings.
ReplyDeleteThese are absolutely fantastic. I've only ever seen a couple of bits of animation that used ink and watercolour in the final footage, and I think it looks great, I really wish there was more, especially after seeing these!
ReplyDeleteIncredible, Andreas! When that project was cancelled?
ReplyDeleteAbout 3 1/2 to 4 years ago.
DeleteAmazing stuff... I love Sam's cheek lines... I noticed that in your animation, for example in climax of "The Lion King", when Scar shows the hyenas to Simba and says "They thing I'M King" , the cheek lines go beyond the face to emphasize "King"...great stuff!
ReplyDelete*"They think I'M king"
DeleteJust looking at the pictures I'm already seeing potential for what personality these characters could have had. I especially love Sam with that big sloppy tongue. :D
ReplyDeleteGreat designs! Was this by any chance the 'Fraidy Cat' project?
ReplyDeleteThis this project can't turn into a feature, maybe it CAN turn into something else, like a children's book.
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ReplyDeleteFritz! Fritz! Fritz!
tell how to do like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletetell how to do like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely amazing characters, congratulations Andreas!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see fun, quality, TRADITIONAL animation back on the big screen. I still haven't completely put my finger on what the problem is. I can only speak as a fan. I'm not sure if recent attempts have failed because of poor stories, or what? The product is still fantastic. I remember like yesterday watching Tarzan in the theater and just thinking, this is the apex of it all. Brilliant film. I could never have imagined that we can't get these films to the theaters anymore! Thanks for keeping our hopes alive, Andreas. Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteAndreas thanks for creating this space to share your knowledge I admire how much do you know about animation, your work is inspiring.
ReplyDeleteI want to be an animator and I'm trying to get everything that I can from everywhere. Do you have any advice that stuck with you or maybe something that helped you in your life?
Thanks a lot:)
Great!Thanks fer sharing these!!
ReplyDeleteIf I recall correctly, "Fraidy Cat", was canned during the Eisner era because it was deemed too 'unconventional' for a Disney film. Still, I would have loved to have seen it, if it had actually saw the light of day, especially since Clements and Musker were set to direct.
ReplyDeleteMusker and Clements: my heroes!
ReplyDeleteYour animal designs are fabulous, as are those Hans Bacher bgs. Thanks for giving us the link.
Amazing ! Thanks for sharing this . Hans' backgrounds are awesome too .
ReplyDeleteAnother cancelled project because the studio management was eager to do anything but a Disney film. It's almost as though they had distain for anything created by the Old Maestro. I knew my career at Disney was over. Apparently, the careers of many others would soon be over as well.
ReplyDeleteGreat designs, great post!
ReplyDeleteThanks for these. I've always been fascinated by this project; it always sounded like it would have been a lot of fun. It's a shame it got shelved.
ReplyDeleteThat duck is really fantastic...