Tick Tock

Cogsworth! Haven't drawn him in a while; figured I would. Plus, I haven't posted /any/ of my drawings of him here, yet (I did once, but I deleted that post... Can't remember why. Plus it was drawn straight from a screencap, and this one was done without a reference).

Hope you like!

Cogsworth, Beauty and the Beast, and all that are property of Disney.

On the Ropes

Gahaha, what a clever title!

For some reason, I've noticed I post mostly just Panda Sensei stuff on here... I guess 'cause most everything else I draw is fanart, and if you really wanna see that, you can just go to my deviantART account in my link thing over there. Though, I guess the same goes for seeing Panda Sensei over there, 'cause I post pretty much everything I post here on there...

Anyhoo, this is what you get when you watch the end dramatic fight scenes of Hunchback of Notre Dame while drawing Panda Sensei.

I usually don't spend very long on a single drawing, so this is a good change, I guess, though it didn't take REALLY long. I think I spent the most time getting the shape of his head to look right, and the, uh... fabric part over his legs. Dunno what you'd call that.

Dunno what he's standing on, either. Maybe a roof or something.

Anyway, I'm done rambling... Enjoy?

OH, OH! In other news, I got the Hunchback of Notre Dame DVD today!! Which is great, 'cause I finally got to watch the 'making of' thing. I rented the DVD from Family Video or whatever, but whoever had it last scratched it all to crud and back, so the 'making of' wouldn't work, and that made me sad. But, I got to see it, so I'm happy now.

Uhh... anyway. Bye!

The Princess and the Frog

Okay, I don't know why I haven't blogged about this yet, but I am REALLY excited about this movie. Prepare for a long post!

First of all, for some of you who may not know, The Princess and the Frog is a new traditionally animated movie coming out in 2009. D'ja hear that? TRADITIONALLY ANIMATED. Yeah. The first one in five years, ever since Michael Eisner at the Disney studios decided to stop the 2D stuff altogether. Luckily, that decision has been changed, and I'm pretty sure Michael Eisner isn't working for Disney anymore.

Speaking of him, I think he's got some latenight talkshow now... I saw it the other night, and it was kinda funny seeing him talking about this woman's new CD at Starbuck's.

Anyway, I think the movie is scheduled to come out in December of 2009, pretty close to Christmas. Heck, I'll be 18 by then... Which is a weird thought.

Here's some more news I think is fantastic! The movie is gonna be directed by the same talented guys that directed The Little Mermaid and Aladdin! Yup, Ron Clements and John Musker! That's pretty good news. I think they'll do a great job.

The movie is gonna be composed by Randy Newman, also. That was actually a little bit disappointing for me, because their first choice was going to be Alan Menken, who did the score for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (which has one of my favorite scores period), and Enchanted. He's definately my favorite composer, hands down. Wish I could find the Hunchback soundtrack. Anyway, I'm sure Randy Newman can bring something to it, as well. I'm not as familiar with him, considering he does more Pixar stuff, I think, but I do know he did the music for Toy Story.

There's also gonna be some great names in animation doing, well... animation! Here's a couple names I recognized from the list (which you can find, along with a lot more information, on http://community.livejournal.com/froglegss/):

Ruben A. Aquino is the supervising animator for the characters Big Daddy La Bouf/Prince Naveen. He supervised animation for other Disney characters like Maurice (Beauty and the Beast), Ursula (The Little Mermaid), Adult Simba (The Lion King), Powhatan (Poccahontas), Shang and Fa Li (Mulan), Pleakley and David (Lilo and Stitch), and Denahi (Brother Bear).

Andreas Deja, one of my favorite animators, is the supervising animator for the character Mama Odie. He was the supervising animator for Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), Scar (The Lion King), Lilo (Lilo and Stitch), King Triton (The Little Mermaid), Adult Hercules (Hercules), and Queen Nerissa (Enchanted). (That last one I'm not sure about; let me know if you know otherwise.)

Mark Henn is gonna be the supervising animator for the leading lady, Tiana (who by the way is Disney's first African American princess, which has caused quite a bit of contraversy already, but I'll get to that later). He also was the supervising animator for Ariel from The Little Mermaid. I'm pretty sure he animated Belle from Beauty and the Beast as well, but I don't remember if he was a supervising animator along with James Baxter, or just an animator. I'm sure he's animated plenty of other characters, but I can't seem to find him on Wikipedia, haha.

And here's one I'm really excited about; Nik Ranieri is going to be the supervising animator for the character Charlotte! I mostly know Nik Ranieri as being the supervising animator of Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast, but he's also animated Meeko (Poccahontas), Hades (Hercules), and Kuzco (both human and llama) from Emperor's New Groove.

There are other animators, obviously, but I'm not familiar with their names, so I'll just leave it up to you to look them up. Also, if you spot some information you know is wrong above, please tell me. And if you know of other characters they animated, please let me know!

I really hope this movie does well. As I've mentioned before, Tiana is going to be the first African American Disney princess, and that's caused quite a bit of contraversy. In my opinion, I think everyone should really wait until they SEE the movie to judge it. I know her name used to be Maddy, but people looked at that as a lower-class name I guess, and complained about it, and I think that's the reason it got changed. She also used to be a chambermaid, but people complained about that, too, and I think that was changed as well. I just hope people take it for what it is, and don't complain to Disney to the point where they change the movie into something they didn't want it to be.

On a brigher note, I think John Goodman's doing some voice acting. Dunno what character or anything like that, but I love his voice. I think he did Sully from Monsters Inc. and Pacha from Emperor's New Groove, right?

Also, the movie is going to be a musical! That I am really excited about. I really loved that about movies like Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and all those greats, and it's awesome that they're bringing that back. I know Ron Clements and John Musker are probably under a lot of pressure to make this movie great, considering there's so many firsts (first 2D movie in five years, first African American princess ect.), and contraversies, but I hope they just stick to what they think is best and really put out an amazing movie.

This movie isn't only exciting for me just because it's another Disney traditionally animated feature, but it also gives me a lot of hope. I want to be an animator at Disney one day (traditional, not CGI). A while back, before I knew the movie was coming out, people kept saying that Disney wasn't going to do 2D anymore, and that was depressing. I was starting to think of other career choices, like being a character designer, storyboard artist, things like that, which would be fun, but not my first choice, y'know? Then I get news of this movie being on its way, and it's like a breath of fresh air. Heh, corny as it is. I don't think I'm going to be able to sit still when I finally get to see the movie. I might squeal out loud the first time I see a trailer in the movie theater. I feel sorry for whoever would be seeing a movie with me, haha.

Anyway, hope I didn't bore ya with my extremely long blog post thingy. Hope you're as excited about this as I am!

WALL-E

WALL-E was an amazing movie!! I got to see it today with one of my best friends, Angie, and her friend Eric. It's definately one of my favorites now. It was so adorable, and it's really great how they made it possible for you to fall in love with characters that barely say a word. Here's a little reviw sort of thing... Just my favorite parts and what I liked about it, junk like that. And there's no critiques! I can't stand reading critics' stuff. Plus, I'm not going to pretend I know what I'm talking about, haha. I know a thing or two about animation I guess, at least for my age, but definately not enough to critique a movie. Besides, I know pretty much nothing about CG.


...Anyway.

****SPOILER WARNING****

Well, first of all, the little short that came at the beginning was really funny. Heh, I kinda felt sorry for the magician. But I'm a dork like that. I liked the bunny, too.

The beginning of the movie was great! I really loved the reveal when Wall-E's stacking those garbage cubes, and you see just how tall he'd built it up, and then you see all the other gigantic stacks of them. Poor little guy must've been alone for a long time. His little daily routine was really cute. And the spork joke! Some guy sitting behind us in the theater got a big kick out of that.

I really liked Eve, too. Her design was really simple, but really cool. She looks pretty simple to draw; I think I'll try it pretty soon. I was thinking about that the whole time I was watching it. XD And Wall-E's design was great too!! Heck, everybody's was. I think my favorite little side character was the little cleaning robot, Mo. He was funny.

I loved how everyone was fat! I could totally see that happening, haha. The captain was great. Pizza plant!

Probably, my favorite part was the scene/sequence/part where Eve fixes Wall-E near the end, but he'd lost his personality. You really felt for Eve in that part, and I think it's great how they can make you feel connected to a robot character like that. Not that I know what I'm talking about, heh.

Anyway! I'm totally not a mushy-type person (or at least that's what I tell myself), but it was really sweet when Eva held his hand. I was about to cry during that part, but I was with friends who weren't crying, and I didn't wanna feel like a dork, lol.

I liked how Wall-E's eyes did that shifting thing before he actually said something to her, once he got his personality back. You just knew he was back after that. The movie was shorter than I expected it to be, though. Not that that's a big deal or anything.


****SPOILERS OVER****

I really, really wanna see it again, and I definately reccomend it to everyone else! I can't wait 'til it comes out on DVD, though I'll probably have to wait a long time, 'cause it'll probably play in theatres for a lonnnggg time. ...I wanna Wall-E poster.

In other news... I got a poster at K-Mart with the Disney villains on it! ...Well, I guess not ALL of them are on it. I wish it had Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame and Gaston from Beauty and the Beast on it, but what can ya do. I'd post a picture of it, but my camera's out of batteries. The main reason I bought it is because it has Scar from Lion King on it. That, and it's Disney. It's got Scar, Pete, Maleficent, Jafar, the Siamese cats, the Cheshire Cat (sp?), Ursula, Captain Hook, Cruella DeVille, the wolf from Three Little Pigs (I think. I've never seen it), and the witch from Snow White (I THINK. I haven't seen that but once, and it was when I was little... Though I really want to watch it again.) That was a needlessly long paragraph just about that poster, but that's okay!

Also, I saw a preview for Bolt, and that dog is ADORABLE. ...And so's the cat. .....And the hamster. The style of that movie looks incredible.

...Okay, I'm done talking now. : D

Panda Sensei Update Update

Here's yet another update on Panda Sensei! I've made him a lot taller than he used to be, and his style is a little more... I dunno, different I guess. I changed his outfit a bit, too. Poofy sleeves! Also, I put his hands up in front of him for once. I don't know why, but I can never seem to want to do that. But I did, and I think it turned out alright.
This doesn't really match up with the Panda Sensei at the top, but it's just a little practice with different poses. For some reason, half the time I draw him, he's just standing there looking confused or surprised or something. His arm looks alittle long, but whatever.
Clopin from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame! He's probably my favorite from that movie, though all the characters are amazing. Heck, he whole movie is amazing. It's a shame it didn't do as well as it could've, or should've. In my opinion, at least out of the Disney movies I've seen, it's one of the very best. And the soundtrack is AMAZING. I wish I could find it somewhere. And my dad doesn't trust online shopping, haha. "Hellfire" is probably one of the best songs I've heard in a Disney movie, not to mention the visuals in that scene were incredible.

Okay, enough of me trying to sound smart. lol

This! ...Is some random chick. I dunno, I drew her one day when I was trying to draw Ariel from Little Mermaid from memory, and it kinda didn't work, so she sorta morphed into this girl. Dunno who she is, but I'm pretty proud of it, 'cause she's one of the first halfway realistic people I've been able to draw and be content with (This wasn't my first drawing of her, but I like this one better than the first, so I'm posting it).

In other news, I might see Wall-E today! And we might go to the zoo this weekend. Heh, this summer's been kinda boring so far, so hopefully we do. I think I'm gonna bring my sketchbook with me if we go. ANDANDAND I think they have pandas!! GAHAW.

Well, thanks for reading/looking!!

Panda Sensei Update

Here's a little update on my character, Panda Sensei. He's changed a little bit, and he's still in the works. Heh, hopefully I can come up with some comic ideas for him. ...Hopefully.
His mustache looks a little weird, though... I might just take it away alltogether. What do you think?

And here's just a little sketch I did of Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast. I like how it came out! It wasn't done with a reference or anything. ...Well, not with a direct reference anyway. I had a couple pictures of him in front of me at the time, but this isn't taken from a screencap or anything like that. I have a computer-colored version... But eh, I don't feel like posting it. Maybe later.

Lumiere is property of Disney animation. (Hope that suffices as a disclaimer!)

Kung Fu Panda!

I saw the movie, and loved it! I even drew Po (obviously)


I know barely anyone (if anybody) actually READS my stuff yet, so I'm keeping it short, lol.

But I DO wanna put a little advertisement out there for an AWESOME website. It's www.deviantart.com. It's a place you can post your own drawings, talk with other artists, and get their opinion on your stuff! Please, stop by there if you read this, even if you do no more than look at the front page. It barely takes any time to sign up, and it's free and all. I promise you'll like it. There's all sorts of cool people on there who probably like the same stuff you do. I've been on there for, like, three years I think. It's even better than having a blog, I'd say.

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