Jafar and Scar Roughs

My friend John Ramirez just posted on Facebook a few of my rough drawings of Jafar and Scar. I had not seen any of these since I drew them decades ago. John rough inbetweened for me way back.

In these Scar doodles I was trying to figure out the shapes and forms of his mane. Originally I had thought it might be a tough challenge to track this irregular mass of hair in drawing as well as in motion. But after analyzing this a little, the issue sort of took care of itself. 

Here is the final model sheet:

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These are xeroxes of a few roughs from a scene in which Jafar is pressuring Gazeem, the thief, to find the lamp. He is actually holding that character who was animated by Dan Hofstedt on a different level. Voice actor Jonathan Freeman just nailed the personality of Jafar.

A terrific lion "figurine" I had purchased somewhere, can't remember. But it did help me to visualize a lion's anatomy.

In this scene Scar yells at Nala: "We are not going anywhere!" It almost animated itself. When you work off Jeremy Iron's voice performance, the animation comes easy, and it was a total thrill to bring Scar to life. I can't emphasize this enough. Absolute joy.