"There will be a King!"

 

These pics were taken at Disney's ARL, Animation Research Library.

The color drawing of Scar is the very first drawing I did of the character as I was trying to design him.

I remember the directors asking me to add some "cheek hair" to his face...and that was it. The graphic appearance of Scar was set. 

This is a key animation rough from the Be Prepared sequence. Scar is yelling at the Hyenas:"There will be a king!" I remember animating this scene vividly. 

Scar moves forward, then upward during the dialog. I thought this is a chance to move his mane in a dramatic way. Lots of secondary action on all of that hair.

And since the staging is basically an upshot, I wanted to show Scar in that up perspective for his second main pose. I had studied drawing dramatic head angles from Milt Kahl's animation of Bagheera and Shere Khan. 

When a scene calls for this kind of an angle, boy, it can be so rewarding. It might be tricky to get the drawing just right, but it is so worth trying.

This scene was a lot of fun to animate.