Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Brother Bear "Fashion" Designs?

Here are some character designs I did for Brother Bear.

The original assignment was to draw some prehistoric cavemen, but as the project developed the cavemen turned into Pre-Columbian Eskimo.

So, here are a father and son, preparing for some dramatic hunting occasion…but really it was an excuse to draw the wardrobe and show the directors what I had in mind in terms of clothing, jewelry and weapons.
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12 comments:

  1. monkeyfeather7:38 AM

    Hi Marcelo,

    Thanks for stopping by my blog. I have always really enjoyed your work. Fantastic stuff.

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  2. Joe12:13 PM

    Really nice character designs. Very dynamic too. It would have been interesting to see Brother bear with a bit less eskimo and a little more caveman. Why was it decided upon to move away from the prehistoric look?

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  3. Marcelo Vignali3:13 PM

    I wish I could answer that, but I was working freelance for the picture at that time, and so I wasn't in the studio when that decision was made.

    Currently, there are a lot of cavemen type projects in development around town, among which are the Geico Cavemen TV series, Dreamworks Crood Awakening, Rifkin's Homo Erectus, and caveman-like video games. If Disney would have taken that bold leap and made it a movie about cavemen in 2001, they would have been leading the pack.

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  4. Anonymous3:14 PM

    Great design as always Marcelo .
    Cheers buddy .

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  5. benjamin trobat -cartoonist-7:13 PM

    wow man! this is a amaizing design! really cool work, and dinamic! benja

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  6. Jed Henry9:40 PM

    These designs don't seem too far off from where they ended up in the final film. I kina liked the Eskimo thing. It felt pretty ancient.

    Also, beautiful designs, Boss. Elegant. But then again, what comes off your pencil that isn't?

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  7. Dave Dick4:16 PM

    Great designs and a beautiful drawing :)

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  8. Shuku8:07 AM

    Mmmmmmmmmm. Fashion designs! They're lovely - they're at least -practical- for their time period, to be perfectly honest, and properly symbolic too. (I'm all about practical, sadly. That makes me a very poor fashion designer, to some extent!)

    I love 'em!

    --Shuku

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  9. Nathan Lindsay8:45 AM

    I love these. great detail as usual from you.

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  10. Anonymous6:52 PM

    Hi Marcelo,

    I just took a look o the couple -Father & son ready for action.
    I like very much what you do.
    Great stuff! Very gratifying!
    Sergio.

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  11. Anonymous6:54 PM

    Hi Marcelo,

    I just took a look o the couple -Father & son ready for action.
    I like very much what you do.
    Great stuff! Very gratifying!
    Sergio.

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  12. Lena4:32 AM

    A beautiful composition...!!!

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