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BelleGirl wrote:Enigmawing, you did great work on Rapunzel. I would have liked it a little bit better thoug if the eyes were a teeny bit smaller. But probably this is how Disney imagined it, not you?
Yes, here I am again with my whining, but I think it just look too distracting, those big eyes. Disney girls don't need to look like that. Look at Cinderella, Belle, Aurora, Pocahontas: all of them pretty Disney girls and their eyes are not out of proportion with the rest of their face.
I just cannot get used to it: great big eyes, small nose and lips. But I believe I'm in the minority here.

Poody wrote:Has this been posted yet?


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QAazQcdDMwc/S ... /Rapun.jpg

ajmrowland wrote:Link please and thank you.

ajmrowland wrote:Is "My Peoples" online, or is it unavailable?

Tony Hudson wrote:MY PEOPLES

I left ILM in 2002 to go to Florida and help convert Disney Animation/Florida to CG production. They were finishing "Brother Bear" while I was there, and it was wonderful to see all of the hand-animated work in production.

"My Peoples" was to be a combination of hand-drawn 2D animation for the "human" characters, and CG for the magical come-to-life folk art characters. As Digital Character Supervisor, I was in charge of creation and animation setup of all Character and Hard Surface elements for this uncompleted Disney Animated feature. I also provided concept design for characters. I had a very small but talented crew, and together with Tony Plett doing backend supervision, we put together a pipeline to handle the CG production.

Unfortunately, Disney under Michael Eisner was in turmoil at the time. After a few starts and stops on "My Peoples," they closed the Florida studio, and I went to Burbank to work on "Rapunzel Unbraided" with Glen Keane. Working with Glen Keane I consider to be the renaissance of my career. Glen was so very good at bringing out the best in people and encouraging artistic perfection and, more importantly, artistic confidence. Glen taught me how to trust my artistic instinct. I was no longer in a strictly technical role, but was a part of the Story Department. I worked alongside the story artists, creating 3D animatics for sequences that were difficult to visualize as traditional 2D story reels.

For those who may not be familiar with animation production, the first phase of creating an animated feature is the "Story Reel," which consists of 2D storyboards edited together with temporary dialog tracks. The Story Reel serves as the "bones" of the film during production. I then used drawings on cards in a 3D space with animated camera to describe complex action sequences.

It was heartbreaking when "Rapunzel Unbraided" was shut down in the fall of 2005 and I had to go back to working in the real world, but I will always remember that time with fondness, and remember the lessons Glen taught me. (Note: Disney's current "Rapunzel" is a completely different project.)

SWillie! wrote:. I'm trying my best to see the chair as a 3D object... but I can't, at all. It is, right?

robster16 wrote:I just came across a website of a Disney artist who worked on "My Peoples" and posted a picture with the commentary that the characters in this image are COMPUTER MODELS AND NOT PAINTINGS! That is truelly astounding because you could swear that these two characters had been drawn with chalk on paper! Amazing!!! Just to keep the painterly look debate alive

You can see some footage from the movie in his demo reel on his homepage and that look is truelly AMAZING!!!

http://www.fxvet.net/reels/reels.html

DisneyJedi wrote:I could be wrong, but I think I saw something like that in a Disney art book before.