Gigantic

[The Disneynerd]

Great find! Also welcome back! While she looked more traditionally "Disney" in the concept art images, she didnt really translate well in 3d, her face kinda reminds me of the Croods lol. Yeah it could have been just a temporary placeholder model, but given that she wears the same clothes like in the final "first look" concept images, it seems this was indeed her final look (we dodged a bullet guys!). Especially weird since they promised a more Mary Blair kinda artstyle for the movie and this is straight forward CG as always. Or maybe they were just referring to Blaires unique Shape language but i also dont see that here. Would love if Jacks render would Pop up someday.

Regarding your link, i suppose the cloud render is also from Gigantic, i mean for what else would they create a new rendering system for it?

Speaking of Gigantic, the second i saw the new Hexed logo i immediately had to thought about it, the font and the green brought some good ol' memories.

Also there was some Inma concept art in the Into the Unknown Documentary i stumbled over years ago, where one artist had a drawing of her pinned on his board wall, i might rewatch the whole thing to find it again, atleast its more entertaining than Frozen 2.

[Disney's Divinity]

She looks very generic and underwhelming. There`s very little Disney-esque about her look at all.

I agree. It looks like something from DreamWorks or BlueSky.

I think this story could be revived*, but ideally where Jack has the The Sword in the Stone-esque design that was revealed a while back (at the same time the mother's design was shown) and the giant being more like Rapunzel.

* And I an sort of fond of the story ideas I came up with back when there was that thread about how to translate a new fairytale film through the formula of things like TP&TF, Tangled, and Frozen combined with the Renaissance films. That post was here.

Basically, the ideas were that the golden goose's eggs grant a wish and that's how the giants became giants and how they live in the sky, and that they used the wishes in the distant past to escape a villain below. Whoever gives Jack the beans is the villain, and he manipulates (like Jafar with Aladdin) Jack's poverty to get him to steal the goose for them because the goose / wishes keeps the villain from being able to reach the giants themselves. Jack and the giant female character (whose father or mother is the monarch) have one of those buddy roadtrip types of plots, I guess, with him convincing her to steal the goose from their parent for him, they go to the land below together, she gets to see the world below via comic hijinks (trying not to be seen while being giant) and learning they're not all evil, etc., before cutting to Jack giving the villain the goose and she feels betrayed. Then the villain brings the giant people back to the world below (normal-sized), cue some kind of climactic battle, and Jack has a Beast/Flynn-like death to stop the villain before being revived by the giant female character with one of the golden eggs at the end which inspires the former giants to remain in the world below rather than separating themselves again. Perhaps a person gets only one wish (one egg) from the goose. The giant female character's parent or grandparent used their wish in the past to create a safe place for them all in the sky (similar to the Madrigal grandfather having created the valley that protects them with his sacrifice), the villain's wish neutralizes that in some way and makes them all normal-sized again, Jack's wish is to defeat the villain (after conflict over havung wanted to use it to help him and his mother instead--the quid pro quo that made him agree to get the goose to begin with), and the giant female character's wish is to revive Jack at the end. For some reason, I had this visual of the golden eggs being something that they "push" into their chest where their heart / wish is after the egg sort of lights up or glows. I remember there was a detail in Harry Potter years ago that giants are more resistant to magic. I wonder if that's a more general idea from stories about giants; maybe an idea like that is a way to explain why the wish in the story made them giant, to further protect them from the villain who has sorcery.