In last year's published book Hercules, The Art of Gerald Scarfe, Gerald explains some of the difficulties he and I had coming up with the final design for the character of Hercules.
I remember Hercules being the last character design to be approved for animation. Gerald had tried a stylized version as well as a realistic approach. In the end the two of us worked things out together on a few sheets of animation paper, as you can see in the sketches below.
I think you'll find his notes and observations interesting, and I found Gerald lovely to work with.
Gerald Scarfe is on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/officialgeraldscarfe/?hl=en
Oh wow, I didnt realize Hercules' design was a colaboration. I will need to get that book because I absolutely LOVE Hercules, its so underrated. Imo its the best of the "late renaissance" films (which is what I call Pocohantas - Emperor's New Groove lol).
ReplyDeleteScarfe is a wizard! You must've been thrilled to work with him. Thank you for sharing these scans.
ReplyDeletei do love the work of gerald scarfe, i got to work on a project of his and cameron mackintosh a few years after this and even just drawing in his style was great fun... also i remember hercules coming out when i was at university and it was a huge event, so much fun at the time!
ReplyDeleteIch finde es immer wieder wundervoll😍, bewundernswert👏und nicht selbstverständlich👍☺️, wenn bei guter, respektvoller Teamarbeit so ein tolles Endergebnis zustande kommt!👍🤩
ReplyDeleteInteressanterweise bei der Arbeit an einem Werk, das die Geschichte eines Einzelkämpfers erzählt 😁
Erst mit zunehmenden Alter habe ich Hercules nicht nur hauptsächlich wegen seines Humors sondern in seiner Gesamtheit wirklich zu schätzen gelernt. 👍☺️
Danke fürs Posten! ☺️