A silly photo for a German magazine after The Lion King had been released. I remember the photographer being fascinated with some character figurines, which were placed on my animation desk. It was always interesting to see how your character would be represented as a fast food bonus toy or other merchandise articles.
The animators were frequently involved in the development of such figurines. We were shown little models in a "work in progress" stage, and more often than not gave input to help bring the character on model.
Any of these could be tweaked a bit more to make them look like the film's images, but there is a quirky and naive quality to these mini maquettes which I kind of like.
This t-shirt image was taken from an actual animation drawing.
Stylized films like Hercules present a challenge when representing the characters three dimensionally,
there are many graphic cheats used in the animation that don't make a lot of sense from a logical point of view.
I believe this Roger Rabbit set was done exclusively for the Disney Parks, Baby Herman came out perfect.
A t-shirt illustration based on one of my pre-production sketches.
An absolutely perfect representation of bad Mickey from Runaway Brain, produced in Japan.
