Friday, March 02, 2007

Tonal Sketches for Mulan


©Disney.
My little daughter watches Mulan over and over again and everytime I glance at the TV, I still can't help but watch and enjoy it over again myself. It's such a beautiful movie and brought back a lot of memories and artworks in mind. Seeing some shots that I did, I went through my files and dug up these two artworks what we used to call tonal sketches. Whenever we finished a cleanup layout, we used to include also a smaller composite drawing complete with tonal renderings of both bg and animation pose. This represents how we see the complete layout on the screen and the basis for the background painting. These were done in pencil and grey pantone markers on heavy animation paper ten years ago!

15 comments:

Alessandra Sorrentino said...

veeery nice! :)
i love the lighting in the downshot, very simple and effective.

Shuku said...

Love, love, LOVE the lighting and the downshot angle. And the reflections on the floor! So SHINY. *much admiration and respect*

--Shuku

Motu said...

Armand, you're so talented I've been inspired to write a post about you...
http://www.monicatutak.com/?p=93

Marcos Mateu said...

Great. the top one is so simple and effective.!

Alfred Llupia said...

Hello Armand its great to see this work you did,so what can i say,inspiring work of all of you who worked on those great films,but in this case i salute to your artworks.Greetings!

benjamin trobat -cartoonist- said...

ah! great work! i like mulan! benja

Milenko said...

super cool.
Enjoyed my visit very much.

Cheers,

Milenko

Tim Bye said...

Armand these are great! Seriously impressive

C.Deboda said...

Yep, Mulan happens to be one of my faves also. So its really nice to see some of these drawings.

kcirbuk said...

veeery nice!!!

Paco K.

Jacobo said...

The golden years of the traditional animation.Many things have changed and there are many advances, but 2D never dies.
The columns are powerful and the pencil is brilliant. Pure art

Unknown said...

Always love these development arts you did!!

Jose Ramos said...

Hey Armand , it´s a impressive work , i love the perspective and light.

congratulations ,.

by the way , I like mulan too

Andrew Glazebrook said...

I haven't seen Mulan in ages,we got it on VHS when my oldest daughter was little,I'll have to dig it out or get the DVD !! super work !!!

Anonymous said...

I really liked Mulan, and seeing the concept/development art for it - like these tonal sketches - is super cool! (Especially for art students and Disney fans like myself)
Always great to see your stuff =)