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An intimate instructional documentary series, Sketchbook takes us onto the desks and into the lives of talented artists and animators. Each episode focuses on a single artist teaching us how to draw a single iconic character from a Walt Disney Animation Studios film. As we learn the steps to drawing these characters, we also discover that the artists themselves each have a unique story to tell about how they made their way to Disney and their chosen character. From the creators of Chef's Table, this exclusive experience will give viewers of all ages a new understanding of how these beloved characters come to life on screen while introducing them to a new cast of real-life characters along the way.

Source: https://dmedmedia.disney.com/disney-plus/sketchbook

Episode 1: Gabby Capili draws Kuzco from “The Emperor’s New Groove”
Episode 2: Hyun-Min Lee draws Olaf from “Frozen”
Episode 3: Eric Goldberg draws the Genie from “Aladdin”
Episode 4: Jin Kim draws Captain Hook from “Peter Pan”
Episode 5: Samantha Vilfort draws Mirabel from “Encanto”
Episode 6: Mark Henn draws Young Simba from “The Lion King”

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Poster and trailer.

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Soundtrack.

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It's disappointing they didn't include Randy Haycock. They could have had him draw Kida or Naveen. Also, it would have been preferable to have someone who actually worked on The Emperor's New Groove draw Kuzco. Not to mention, have Jin Kim draw a character from one of the films he actually worked on.

Teaching you how to draw 3D characters like Olaf and Mirabel seems sort of...dumb.

Disney's Divinity wrote:Teaching you how to draw 3D characters like Olaf and Mirabel seems sort of...dumb.

Not really. I mean, yeah, I get it, its not as appealing to hand draw a character who most have mostly been exposed to only a 3d model, but all these designs started as a drawing.

Kyle wrote:

Disney's Divinity wrote:Teaching you how to draw 3D characters like Olaf and Mirabel seems sort of...dumb.

Not really. I mean, yeah, I get it, its not as appealing to hand draw a character who most have mostly been exposed to only a 3d model, but all these designs started as a drawing.

Personally I'm really excited about seeing hand-drawn versions of CG characters, even if (I'm sure) it'll be very basic. I remember seeing an Encanto pencil test and a lot of the comments were about how much they miss hand drawn.

Also I guess building a CG character is too monotonous and wouldn't flow with the animator's stories.

Its probably less about being monotonous and more about accessibility. At first I was like, ok, then have them sculpt it out of clay, we can all buy some clay and use some basic tools, but nothing beats being able to grab a pen, pencil, crayon, heck, a stick to draw in the sand, whatever's laying around to produce a character you know and love.

But I'm less interested in the "how to" part of it, because drawing isn't something you can distill into a few steps. Those how to draw books you used to check out at the library or buy at your crafts store don't actually go far in teaching much. Whats more important is changing how you think about things and observe shape/form.

I want to hear more about design philosophy, maybe how to simplify anatomy/gesture the way Glen Keane does. Probably wont go too deep into it though. Its probably just a way for the artists to tell their stories and inspire in broad strokes.

I'm not sure how this show is going to be any different than this:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxnV ... 5fb9c5GiDV

Sotiris wrote:It's disappointing they didn't include Randy Haycock. They could have had him draw Kida or Naveen. Also, it would have been preferable to have someone who actually worked on The Emperor's New Groove draw Kuzco.

I think the reason they didn't do those things is that they wanted to have a diverse group of animators and the same number of women as men. If there's a second season, maybe they'll include Randy Haycock.

Farerb wrote:I'm not sure how this show is going to be any different than this:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxnV ... 5fb9c5GiDV

Yeah, apart from better lighting/camerawork and a bit of info about the animators themselves, it won't be too different to those videos.