Wednesday, April 30, 2008

BROTHER BEAR character sketches

When I was working on Brother Bear for Walt Disney Feature Animation, part of my job as a freelancer for Disney was to design a world of characters. So, I sharpened my pencils, and drew up a bunch of different North American mammals, in this case the musk ox.

The drawings were, again, old-school. I drew these out and colored them with marker.

24 comments:

  1. Great! Very likeable. I like the hoofs a lot.

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  2. I'm a sucker for paleolithic people. Working on Brother Bear seems like it would've been a lot of fun. It's so ancient, and the world was so different back then. It blows my mind. Oh, and nice oxen, too!

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  3. These are great :)

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  4. These are incredible!

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  5. Anonymous1:14 AM

    Lovely!
    You did a great work with the markers too, makes me feel like going back to the old marker days :)

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  6. Beautiful drawings mr. vignali. Do you ever attend Comic Con?

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  7. Thats one sexy Ox...

    Great designs

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  8. INCREDIBLE . . .great heart and character in both of them while still maintaining a realistic quality. Beautiful Marcelo.

    MAC

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  9. I love the way you blend your markers...essentially making it look like hair...working for Disney...those mus have been the awesomest days ever.

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  10. Nothing is beyond your abilities! You always impress me with your skill with figures and BGs!

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  11. These are great and also you did them in my favorite style-Old School!

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  12. Your work is more beautiful! You are more versatile in tyour works. It's good!
    I am a illustrator brazilian. See my work in my blog, when can, ok? All the best!
    Rico.

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  13. Anonymous10:54 PM

    Fantastic animal design work Marcelo! The shapes and lines in their faces are just great :)

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  14. I love their eyes! Beautiful drawings Marcelo :)

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  15. Nice I like old school. So do you ever have artists block? and if you do what do you do to get over it?

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  16. beautiful drawings marcelo. i hope the i love the shapes of these characters

    -Biv

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  17. always inspiring man~! Dude I'm working for disney right now and I had a chance to see some of your original drawings in the animation research library...oh so inspiring!

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  18. there are so fun to watch

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  19. Heya, Moe! man, you have a way with charm in all your images.

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  20. What a loveable fellow! Shame this didn't make it into the movie, would've loved a character such as this one. :)

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