VIGNALI STUDIO: A Couple Roughs...

VIGNALI STUDIO

Commercial entertainment and illustration artist. Sony Pictures Animation, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Microsoft, Dynamix, Electronic Arts, Rock Star Games, Walt Disney Imagineering, DIC Ent., World of Warcraft and Wizards of the Coast. All art work and text is copyrighted by Marcelo Vignali, unless otherwise attributed to the respective copyright owner, it is illegal to publish or print any such artwork or text without written permission by the artist or copyright owners.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

A Couple Roughs...

While working on the Snow Queen in 2001, I did a variety of various drawings as we were all searching for a style for each of the sequences. In this case, I wanted to create a more naturalistic approach, and then contrast that with a stylized approach when the character falls in love -- hence the stave church in the background, nestled among the trees.

These drawings were looser and rougher than the previous drawing I posted, but drawing this way allowed me to cover more territory quickly. If the directors wanted me to I would work up these sketches into a more polished drawing, but I guess these drawings were sufficient and they remained this way.

All of these drawings were done as freelance work, while I was living and working in St. George, Utah. I would email them to the studio, at a time when emailing a file would take over an hour. It certainly was difficult when I had a lot of sketches I was trying to email in. Sometimes I would start sending files around 8:00pm, and keep sending files until 2:00am! Ah, the good ol' days.

These drawings were drawn in graphite on ledger paper.

# posted by Marcelo Vignali @ 10:46 AM

Comments:

incredible man!

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Jason Scheier : 11:07 AM

I always love seeing your graphic graphite work, Marcelo, thanks for posting!

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Mauricio Abril : 11:22 AM

Love it!

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Jeremy Bernstein : 11:56 AM

beautiful

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Brett Bean : 2:22 PM

Your graphite work is always my favorite of yours.

these are absolutely gorgeous.

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Rachel Wolfe : 4:25 PM

It's awesome being able to see your traditional work. Your work is incredible! Thanks for sharing this.

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Unknown : 9:04 AM

What great pencil drawings...
For quite a while ,I´m thinking about "going back to the roots"and revisit my old pencil...
It just feels a bit " warmer " than all the digital stuff.
No cheating.

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Peter Oedekoven : 7:29 AM

I love the church on the hill. So fluid.

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aintshakespeare : 11:13 AM

That top one is amazing! Nice idea, having the environs change as the story changed

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Joey Mason : 4:41 PM