This character design is for my bear idea.
Bear character.
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Disney's Brother Bear
Brother Bear is a 2003 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the forty-fourth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. In the film, an Inuit boy pursues a bear in revenge for a battle that he provoked in which his oldest brother is killed. He tracks down the bear and kills it, but the Spirits, angered by this needless death, change the boy into a bear himself as punishment. Originally titled Bears, it was the third and final Disney animated feature produced primarily by the Feature Animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida; the studio was shut down in March 2004, not long after the release of this film in favor of computer animated features. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Finding Nemo. A sequel, Brother Bear 2 was released on August 29, 2006.
The film is set in a post-ice age North America, where the local tribesmen believe all creatures are created through the Spirits, who are said to appear in the form of an aurora. Three brothers, Kenai (voiced by Joaquin Phoenix), Denahi (voiced by Jason Raize) and Sitka (voiced by D.B. Sweeney), return to their tribe in order for Kenai to receive his sacred totem, its meaning being what he must achieve to call himself a man. Unlike Sitka, who gained the eagle of guidance, and Denahi who gained the wolf of wisdom, Kenai receives the bear of love, much to his objections, stating that bears are thieves. His point is made a fact when a bear steals some salmon. Kenai and his brothers pursue the bear, but a fight follows on a glacier, Sitka giving his life to save his brothers, although the bear survives. Vengeful, Kenai heads out to avenge Sitka. He chases the bear up onto a mountain and kills it. The Spirits, represented by Sitka's spirit in the form of a bald eagle transforms Kenai into a bear after the dead bear's body disappears. Denahi arrives, mistaking Kenai for dead, and his bear form is responsible for it, vows to avenge Kenai.
Kenai falls down some river rapids, survives, and is healed by Tanana (voiced by Joan Copeland), the shaman of Kenai's tribe. She does not speak the bear language, but advises him to return to the mountain to find Sitka and be turned back to normal, but only when he corrects what he had done; she quickly disappears without and explanation. Kenai quickly discovers the wildlife can talk, meeting two brother mooses, Rutt and Tuke (voiced by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas). He gets caught in a trap, but is freed by a chatty bear cub named Koda (voiced by Jeremy Suarez). The two bears make a deal, Kenai will go with Koda to a nearby salmon run and then the cub will lead Kenai to the mountain. As the two eventually form a sibling-like bond, Koda revealing his mother is missing. The two are hunted by Denahi who fails multiple times to kill Kenai, still unaware that he is his brother. Rutt and Tuke run into the bears multiple times, the group hitching a ride on a herd of mammoths to quicken the pace to the salmon run, but the moose are left behind when the bears move on. Kenai and Koda escape Denahi again, and reach the salmon run, where a large number of bears live as a family, including the leader Tug (voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan), a Grizzly Bear. Kenai becomes very much at home and at content with the other bears. During a discussion among the bears, Koda tells a story about his mother fighting human hunters, making Kenai realize he killed Koda's mother.
Guilty and horrified, Kenai runs away but Koda soon finds him. Kenai reveals the truth to Koda, who runs away grief-stricken. An apologetic Kenai leaves to reach the mountain. Rutt and Took, having fallen out, reform their brotherhood in front of Koda, prompting him to go after Kenai. Denahi confronts Kenai on the mountain, but their fight is intervened by Koda who steals Denahi's hunting pike. Kenai goes to Koda's aid out of love, prompting Sitka to appear and turn him back into a human, much to Denahi and Koda's surprise. However, Kenai asks Sitka to transform him back into a bear so he can stay with Koda. Sitka complies, and Koda is reunited briefly with the spirit of his mother, before she and Sitka return to the Spirits. In the end, Kenai lives with the rest of the bears and gains his title as a man, through being a bear.
The reaction from film reviewers was mixed with many panning the film as a retread of older Disney films like The Lion King and the 20th Century Fox film Ice Age (although Brother Bear began production before Ice Age did), while others defended the film as a legitimate variation of the theme. The popular American movie critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper have given positive reviews of the film.
Of note to many critics and viewers was the use of the film's aspect ratio as a storytelling device. The film begins at a standard widescreen aspect ratio of 1.75:1 (similar to the 1.85:1 ratio common in U.S. cinema or the 1.78:1 ratio of HDTV), while Kenai is a human; in addition, the film's art direction and color scheme are grounded in realism. After Kenai transforms into a bear twenty-four minutes into the picture, the film itself transforms as well: to an anamorphic aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and towards brighter, more fanciful colors and slightly more caricatured art direction. Brother Bear was the first feature since The Horse Whisperer to do a widescreen shift. It was the only animated feature to do this trick, until The Simpsons Movie and Enchanted in 2007.
Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear is a fictional bear who appears in animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show. Yogi Bear was the first breakout character created by Hanna-Barbera, and was eventually more popular than Huckleberry Hound. In January 1961 he was given his own show, The Yogi Bear Show, sponsored by Kellogg's, which included the segments Snagglepuss and Yakky Doodle. Hokey Wolf replaced his segment on The Huckleberry Hound Show. A musical animated feature film, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, was produced in 1964. Yogi was one of several Hanna-Barbera characters to have a collar. This allowed animators to keep his body static, redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke. This reduced the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000.
Like many Hanna-Barbera characters, Yogi's personality and mannerisms were based on a popular celebrity of the time. Art Carney's Ed Norton character on The Honeymooners was said to be Yogi's inspiration; his voice mannerisms broadly mimic Carney as Norton. Norton, in turn, received influence from Borscht Belt and comedians of vaudeville.
Yogi's name is commonly seen as a nod to the famed baseball star Yogi Berra. The plot of most of Yogi's cartoons centered on his antics in the fictional Jellystone Park, a takeoff on the famous Yellowstone National Park. Yogi, accompanied by his constant companion Boo-Boo Bear, would often try to steal picnic baskets from campers in the park, much to the displeasure of Park Ranger Smith. Yogi's girlfriend, Cindy Bear, sometimes appeared and usually disapproved of Yogi's antics.
The name "Jellystone Park" and the concept of a hungry bear who steals campers' food was a theme of aMGM animated short titled Barney's Hungry Cousin which had debuted in 1953.
Besides often speaking in rhyme, Yogi Bear had a number of catchphrases, including his pet name for picnic baskets ("pic-a-nic baskets") and his favorite self-promotion ("I'm smarter than the average bear!"), although he often overestimates his own cleverness. Another characteristic of Yogi was his deep and silly voice. He often greets the ranger with a cordial, "Hello, Mr. Ranger, sir!" and "Hey there, Boo Boo!" as his preferred greeting to his sidekick, Boo Boo.
Paddington Bear
Paddington Bear is a fictional character in children's literature. He appeared on 13 October 1958 and was subsequently featured in several books, most recently in 2008, written by Michael Bond and first illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. The polite immigrant bear from Darkest Peru, with his old hat, battered suitcase, duffle coat and love of marmalade sandwiches has become a classic character from English children's literature. Paddington books have been translated into thirty languages across seventy titles and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Over 265 licences, making thousands of different products across the United Kingdom, Europe, United States, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia and South Africa all benefit from the universal recognition of Paddington Bear.
Paddington is an anthropomorphised bear. He is always polite—always addressing people as "Mr.", "Mrs." and "Miss" and very rarely by first names—and well-meaning, though he inflicts hard stares on those who incur his disapproval. He likes marmalade sandwiches and cocoa, and has an endless capacity for getting into trouble. However, he is known to "try so hard to get things right". He is an adoptive member of the (human) Brown family, and thus gives his full name as Paddington Brown.
Bond based Paddington Bear on a lone teddy bear he noticed on a shelf in a London store near Paddington Station on Christmas Eve 1956, which he bought as a present for his wife. The bear inspired Bond to write a story, and in ten days, he had written the first book. The book was given to his agent, Harvey Unna. A Bear Called Paddington was first published on 13 October 1958, by William Collins & Sons.
The first manufactured toy Paddington Bear was created in 1972 by Gabrielle Designs, a small business run by Shirley and Eddie Clarkson, with the prototype made as a Christmas present for their children Joanna and Jeremy Clarkson (English broadcaster and writer). Shirley Clarkson dressed Paddington in Wellington boots to help the bear stand upright. (Paddington received wellingtons for Christmas in Paddington Marches On, 1964.) The earliest bears wore small children's boots manufactured by Dunlop until their production could not meet demand. Gabrielle Designs then produced their own boots with paw prints moulded into the soles.
Shirley Clarkson's book describes the evolution of the toy Paddington from Christmas gift to subject of litigation and ultimately commercial success.
In the first story, Paddington is found at Paddington railway station in London by the Brown family, sitting on his suitcase (bearing the label "WANTED ON VOYAGE") with a note attached to his coat which reads, "Please look after this bear. Thank you." Bond has said that his memories of newsreels showing trainloads of child evacuees leaving London during the war, with labels around their necks and their possessions in small suitcases, prompted him to do the same for Paddington.
He has arrived as a stowaway coming from "Deepest Darkest Peru", sent by his Aunt Lucy (one of his only known relatives, aside from an Uncle Pastuzo who gave Paddington his hat), who has gone to live in the Home for Retired Bears in Lima. He claims, "I came all the way in a lifeboat, and ate marmalade. Bears like marmalade." He tells them that no one can understand his Peruvian name, so the Browns decide to call him Paddington after the railway station in which he was found. Paddington's Peruvian name is ultimately revealed to be "Pastuso" (not to be confused with his "Uncle Pastuzo".) Bond originally wanted Paddington to have "travelled all the way from darkest Africa", but his agent advised him that there were no bears in darkest Africa, and thus it was amended to darkest Peru, home of the spectacled bear.
They take him home to 32 Windsor Gardens, off Harrow Road between Notting Hill and Maida Vale. (It should be noted that there is no number 32 in the real Windsor Gardens.) Paddington frequents the nearby Portobello Road markets, where he is known for, and respected by, the shopkeepers for driving a very hard bargain. When he gets annoyed with someone, he often gives them one of his special "hard stares" (taught to him by Aunt Lucy), which causes the person to become flushed and embarrassed.
The stories follow Paddington's adventures and mishaps in England, along with some snippets of information about his past. For instance, in one story we learn that Paddington was orphaned in an earthquake, before being taken in and raised by his Aunt Lucy.
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Winnie the Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children’s verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.
The hyphens in the character's name were later dropped when The Walt Disney Company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of Disney features that became one of its most successful franchises.
The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the only Latin book ever to have been featured on the New York Times Best Seller List.
In popular film adaptations, Pooh Bear has been voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith and Jim Cummings in English, and Yevgeny Leonov in Russian.
Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, who was the basis for the character Christopher Robin. Christopher's toys also lent their names to most of the other characters, except for Owl and Rabbit, as well as the Gopher character, who was added in the Disney version. Christopher Robin's toy bear is now on display at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library in New York.
Christopher Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie, a Canadian black bear which he often saw at London Zoo, and "Pooh", a swan they had met while on holiday. The bear cub was purchased from a hunter for $20 by Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario, Canada, while en route to England during the First World War. He named the bear "Winnie" after his adopted hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba. "Winnie" was surreptitiously brought to England with her owner, and gained unofficial recognition as The Fort Garry Horse regimental mascot. Colebourn left Winnie at the London Zoo while he and his unit were in France; after the war she was officially donated to the zoo, as she had become a much loved attraction there. Pooh the swan appears as a character in its own right in When We Were Very Young.
In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne offers this explanation of why Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply "Pooh":
"But his arms were so stiff ... they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off. And I think — but I am not sure — that that is why he is always called Pooh."
Ashdown Forest: the setting for the stories
The Winnie-the-Pooh stories are set in Ashdown Forest, Sussex, England. The forest is a large area of tranquil open heathland on the highest sandy ridges of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty situated 30 miles (50 km) south of London. In 1925 Milne, a Londoner, bought a country home a mile to the north of the forest at Cotchford Farm, near Hartfield. According to Christopher Milne, while his father continued to live in London "...the four of us—he, his wife, his son and his son's nanny—would pile into a large blue, chauffeur-driven Fiat and travel down every Saturday morning and back again every Monday afternoon. And we would spend a whole glorious month there in the spring and two months in the summer." From the front lawn the family had a view across a meadow to a line of alders that fringed the River Medway, beyond which the ground rose through more trees until finally "above them, in the faraway distance, crowning the view, was a bare hilltop. In the center of this hilltop was a clump of pines." Most of his father's visits to the forest at this time were, he noted, family expeditions on foot "to make yet another attempt to count the pine trees on Gill's Lap or to search for the marsh gentian". Christopher added that, inspired by Ashdown Forest, his father had made it "the setting for two of his books, finishing the second little over three years after his arrival".
Many locations in the stories can be linked to real places in and around the forest. As Christopher Milne wrote in his autobiography: “Pooh’s forest and Ashdown Forest are identical”. For example, the fictional "Hundred Acre Wood" was in reality Five Hundred Acre Wood; Galleon's Leap was inspired by the prominent hilltop of Gill's Lap, while a clump of trees just north of Gill's Lap became Christopher Robin's The Enchanted Place because no-one had ever been able to count whether there were sixty-three or sixty-four trees in the circle.
The landscapes depicted in E.H. Shepard’s illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh books are directly inspired by the distinctive landscape of Ashdown Forest, with its high, open heathlands of heather, gorse, bracken and silver birch punctuated by hilltop clumps of pine trees. In many cases Shepard's illustrations can be matched to actual views, allowing for a degree of artistic license. Shepard's sketches of pine trees and other forest scenes are on display at the V&A Museum in London.
The game of Poohsticks was originally played by Christopher Milne on a footbridge across a tributary of the River Medway in Posingford Wood, close to Cotchford Farm. It is traditional to play the game there using sticks gathered in nearby woodland. When the footbridge required replacement in recent times the engineer designed a new structure based closely on the drawings by E. H. Shepard of the bridge in the original books, as the bridge did not originally appear as the artist drew it. An information board at the bridge describes how to play the game.
There are three claimants, depending on the precise question posed. Christopher Robin's teddy bear, Edward, made his character début in a poem called "Teddy Bear" in Milne's book of children's verse When We Were Very Young (6 November 1924) although his true first appearance was within the 13 February 1924 edition of Punch magazine which contained the same poem along with other stories by Milne and Shepard. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name on 24 December 1925, in a Christmas story commissioned and published by the London newspaper The Evening News. It was illustrated by J. H. Dowd. The first collection of Pooh stories appeared in the book Winnie-the-Pooh. The Evening News Christmas story reappeared as the first chapter of the book, and at the very beginning it explained that Pooh was in fact Christopher Robin's Edward Bear, who had simply been renamed by the boy. The book was published in October 1926 by the publisher of Milne's earlier children's work, Methuen, in England, and E. P. Dutton in the United States.
An authorised sequel Return to the Hundred Acre Wood was published on 5 October 2009.The author, David Benedictus, has developed, but not changed, Milne's characterisations. The illustrations, by Mark Burgess, are in the style of Shepard.
On 6 January 1930, Stephen Slesinger purchased U.S. and Canadian merchandising, television, recording and other trade rights to the "Winnie-the-Pooh" works from Milne for a $1000 advance and 66% of Slesinger's income, creating the modern licensing industry. By November 1931, Pooh was a $50 million-a-year business. Slesinger marketed Pooh and his friends for more than 30 years, creating the first Pooh doll, record, board game, puzzle, US radio broadcast (NBC), animation, and motion picture film. In 1961, Disney acquired rights from Slesinger to produce articles of merchandise based on characters from its feature animation.
The first time Pooh and his friends appeared in colour was 1932, when he was drawn by Slesinger in his now-familiar red shirt and featured on an RCA Victor picture record. Parker Brothers also introduced A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh Game in 1933, again with Pooh in his red shirt. In the 1940s, Agnes Brush created the first plush dolls with Pooh in his red shirt. Shepard had drawn Pooh with a shirt as early as the first Winnie-The-Pooh book, which was subsequently coloured red in later coloured editions.After Slesinger's death in 1953, his wife, Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, continued developing the character herself. In 1961, she licensed rights to Walt Disney Productions in exchange for royalties in the first of two agreements between Stephen Slesinger, Inc. and Disney. The same year, A. A. Milne's widow, Daphne Milne, also licensed certain rights, including motion picture rights, to Disney.
Since 1966, Disney has released numerous animated productions starring Winnie the Pooh and related characters. These have included theatrical featurettes, television series, and direct-to-video films, as well as the theatrical feature-length films The Tigger Movie, Piglet's Big Movie, and Pooh's Heffalump Movie.
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The following is my synopsis idea for the premise of my bear idea, which includes the characters mentioned above.
Bear Synopsis Idea
The USA government are trying to catch a spy. Not any old spy but one who is a master of disguise, who can blend in with any background/situation despite the fact that he, is a bear. He is hunted down because he knows of a government secret, one the government doesn’t want getting loose. He is forced to go in to hiding in an underground cave, which he sets up as his headquarters, which is full of traps and decoys to keep suspecting people out. Being holed up forever though as the bear soon finds out, is boring and tiring. Tired from hiding, the bear just wants to live a quiet life and fit in with the general public and everyday life. He attempts to join in on activities and enjoy days out to small events such as shopping to bigger activities such as theme parks usually through the use of disguises. Despite his best efforts, the hapless bear finds himself amid chaos, government plots, awful disguises and mobs of village folk.
My character mood board for my bear idea.
My character mood board for my bear idea.
Bear Character Mood Board
The following character designs are for my zoo idea which i though up for, for my TV series.
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These next images are research design ideas from which i got inspiration for my elephant character.
Dumbo
Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941, by RKO Radio Pictures.
The fourth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, Dumbo is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl for the prototype of a novelty toy ("Roll-a-Book"). The main character is Jumbo Jr., a semi-anthropomorphic elephant who is cruelly nicknamed "Dumbo". He is ridiculed for his big ears, but in fact he is capable of flying by using his ears as wings. Throughout most of the film, his only true friend, aside from his mother, is the mouse, Timothy — a relationship parodying the stereotypical animosity between mice and elephants.
Dumbo was made to recoup the financial losses of Fantasia. It was a deliberate pursuit of simplicity and economy for the Disney studio, and at 64 minutes, it is one of Disney's shortest animated features.
While circus animals are being transported, Mrs. Jumbo, one of the elephants, receives her baby from a stork. The baby elephant is quickly taunted by the other elephants because of his large ears, and they nickname him "Dumbo".
Once the circus is set up, Mrs. Jumbo loses her temper at a group of boys for making fun of her son, and she is locked up and deemed mad. Dumbo is shunned by the other elephants and with no mother to care for him, he is now alone, except for a self-appointed mentor and protector, Timothy Q. Mouse, who feels sympathy for Dumbo and becomes determined to make him happy again.
The circus director makes Dumbo the top of an elephant pyramid stunt, but Dumbo's ears causes the stunt to go wrong, injuring the other elephants and bringing down the big top. Dumbo is made a clown as a result, and plays the main role in an act that involves him falling into a vat of pie filling. Despite his newfound popularity and fame, Dumbo hates this job and is now more miserable than ever.
To cheer Dumbo up, Timothy takes him to visit his mother. On the way back Dumbo cries and then starts to hiccup so Timothy decides to take him for a drink of water from a bucket which, unknown to him, has accidentally had a bottle of champagne knocked into it. As a result, Dumbo and Timothy both become drunk and see hallucinations of pink elephants (the famous Pink Elephants on Parade sequence).
The next morning, Dumbo and Timothy wake up in a tree. Timothy wonders how they got up in the tree, and concludes that Dumbo flew up there using his large ears as wings. With the help of a group of crows, Timothy is able to get Dumbo to fly again, using a psychological trick of a "magic feather" to boost his confidence.
Back at the circus, Dumbo must perform his stunt of jumping from a high building, this time from a much higher platform. On the way down, Dumbo loses the feather and Timothy tells him that the feather was never magical, and that he is still able to fly. Dumbo is able to pull out of the dive and flies around the circus, finally striking back at his tormentors as the stunned audience looks on in amazement.
After this performance, Dumbo becomes a media sensation, Timothy becomes his manager, and Dumbo and Mrs. Jumbo are given a private car on the circus train.
The critical reactions to Dumbo were positive, as many critics of the day felt that Dumbo was a return to roots for Disney after growing increasingly "arty" with Fantasia.
The film holds a 97% at movie aggreator Rotten Tomatoes. Reviews for the film were generally positive.
Now considered a Disney classic (movie critic Leonard Maltin described it as "One of Walt Disney's most charming animated films").
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Diddy Kong
Diddy Kong
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Disney's the Lion King
The Lion King is a 1994 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Released to theaters on June 15, 1994 by Walt Disney Pictures, it is the 32nd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. The story, which was influenced by the Bible stories of Joseph and Moses, the Epic of Sundiata, and the William Shakespeare play Hamlet, takes place in a kingdom of anthropomorphic lions in Africa. The film was the highest grossing animated film of all time until the release of Finding Nemo (a 2003 Disney/Pixar computer-animated film). The Lion King is the sixth highest grossing animated film and continues to be the highest grossing hand drawn animation film in history and belongs to an era known as the Disney Renaissance.
The Lion King is the highest grossing 2D animated film of all time in the United States, and received positive reviews from critics, who praised the film for its music and story and has been called one of the best films of all time. During its release in 1994, the film grossed more than $783 million worldwide, becoming the most successful film released that year, and it is currently the 35th highest-grossing feature film ever.
A musical film, The Lion King garnered two Academy Awards for its achievement in music and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, with an original score by Hans Zimmer. Disney later produced two related movies: a sequel, The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998); and a prequel/parallel, The Lion King 1½ (2004).
A large number of animals gather around Pride Rock in Africa, where the wise mandrill Rafiki presents Simba, the newborn son of the lion King and Queen, Mufasa and Sarabi. Mufasa's younger brother, Scar, is displeased with the birth of this heir, as he desires the throne for himself. As Simba grows, Mufasa teaches him about being king. During a tour of the Pride Lands, Simba asks about a shadowy place; Mufasa tells him it is beyond their borders and that Simba must never go there. The lesson is cut short when Zazu, Mufasa's Hornbill adviser, informs him that hyenas have entered the Pride Lands. Mufasa tells Zazu to take Simba home while he gets rid of the hyenas. Later that day, Scar tells Simba that the shadowy place is in fact an elephant graveyard. Simba's curiosity is piqued, and he convinces his best friend Nala, a female lion cub, to come with him. Sarabi sends Zazu to keep an eye on the two cubs, but they soon leave him behind. They finally reach the elephant graveyard, where they come upon three spotted hyenas, Shenzi, Banzai and Ed. The hyenas who try to kill the cubs, but during the ensuing chase, Mufasa arrives to rescue them. Mufasa sends Nala and Zazu back to Pride Rock, while he admonishes Simba. Later he teaches Simba about the stars, telling him that they represent all the great kings of the past and will always be there to guide him.
Meanwhile, Scar plots with the hyenas to take over the Pride Lands. On Scar's orders, the hyenas stampede a large pack of grazing wildebeest into a gorge; in their panic, the wildebeests do not notice Simba ahead of them. Scar informs Mufasa of Simba's predicament, and Mufasa successfully rescues Simba. However, as Mufasa attempts to exit the gorge himself by climbing its walls, Scar refuses his request for assistance and throws him back into the gorge, resulting in his death. Scar tricks Simba into believing that Mufasa's death resulted from the cub's carelessness. Ashamed, Simba flees the Pride Lands, intending to never return. In Simba's absence, Scar steps forward as Mufasa's rightful heir and becomes the new King.
Simba collapses in the wasteland after his escape, but is found by Timon, a meerkat, and Pumbaa, a warthog. The duo nurse him back to health and take him in, teaching him their motto, "Hakuna Matata" (interpreted as "no worries"). Years later, as an adult, Simba rescues Timon and Pumbaa from a hungry lioness, only to discover the lioness is Nala. She expresses her delight at finding Simba, and informs him of how Scar's irresponsibility as King of the Pride Lands is leading to the suffering of its inhabitants. Still feeling guilt over his father's death, Simba refuses to return. The wise Rafiki tracks Simba down. He summons Mufasa's ghost in the sky for Simba; the ghost tells Simba that he must return to the Pride Lands and take his place as king. Simba refuses, but as he vanishes Mufasa tells him that he is his son and the one true king, and to remember this.
Simba returns to Pride Rock with Nala, Timon and Pumbaa, who all agree to help him fight. While Timon and Pumbaa distract the hyena guardians, Simba confronts Scar on Pride Rock. Scar forces Simba towards the edge of Pride Rock and reveals that he killed Mufasa. Enraged, Simba leaps back up and pins Scar, forcing Scar to confess his crime to the other lions. The truth now revealed, a fight ensues between the hyenas and lionesses while Simba confronts Scar alone at the top of Pride Rock. Scar begs Simba for mercy, accusing the hyenas of planning everything. The good-natured Simba spares Scar, but the latter betrays the younger lion's trust and attacks once again. The ensuing fight ends when Simba throws Scar off a cliff. Scar survives the fall, but is attacked and immediately killed by the hyenas, who overheard his attempt to betray them.
With Scar and the hyenas gone, Simba is greeted by his mother and Nala. Simba walks up Pride Rock and remembers Mufasa, then lets out a powerful roar in which all the lionesses join. In time, Pride Rock is restored to its former glory and Simba looks down happily at his kingdom with Nala, Timon, and Pumbaa by his side; Rafiki presents Simba and Nala's newborn cub to the inhabitants of the Pride Lands and the circle of life continues.
CastThe Lion King garnered critical acclaim and at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 61 reviews collected, the film has an overall approval rating of 92%, with a weighted average score of 8/10, easily tied with Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. Among Rotten Tomatoes's Cream of the Crop, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 100 percent.Metacritic, which assigns a normalized 0–100 rating to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 84 from the 13 reviews it collected.
Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert called the film "a superbly drawn animated feature" and, in his print review wrote, "The saga of Simba, which in its deeply buried origins owes something to Greek tragedy and certainly to Hamlet, is a learning experience as well as an entertainment." On the television program Siskel & Ebert the film was praised but received a mixed reaction when compared to previous Disney films. Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both gave the film a "Thumbs Up" but Siskel said that it was not as good as earlier films such as Beauty and the Beast and was "a good film, not a great one". Hal Hinson of The Washington Post called it "an impressive, almost daunting achievement" and felt that the film was "spectacular in a manner that has nearly become commonplace with Disney's feature-length animations", but was less enthusiastic toward the end of his review saying, "Shakespearean in tone, epic in scope, it seems more appropriate for grown-ups than for kids. If truth be told, even for adults it is downright strange." Owen Gleiberman, film critic for Entertainment Weekly, praised the film and wrote that it "has the resonance to stand not just as a terrific cartoon but as an emotionally pungent movie". Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers praised the film and felt that it was "a hugely entertaining blend of music, fun and eye-popping thrills, though it doesn't lack for heart". The staff of TV Guide wrote that "The film has some of Disney's most spectacular animation yet—particularly in the wildebeest stampede—and strong vocal performances, especially by skilled Broadway comedian Nathan Lane. However, it suffers from a curiously undeveloped story line." James Berardinelli, film critic for ReelViews, praised the film saying, "With each new animated release, Disney seems to be expanding its already-broad horizons a little more. The Lion King is the most mature (in more than one sense) of these films, and there clearly has been a conscious effort to please adults as much as children.
Zookeeper character
Front, Side and Back View
Action Pose and Facial Expressions
Zookeeper
Zookeeper
Zookeeper Boss Character
Front, Side and Back View
Action Pose and facial Expressions
Zookeeper Boss
Anime Guy
Zookeeper Boss
This is my synopsis idea that i did for my zoo idea.
Zoo Idea Synopsis
The series follows the adventures of four intelligent zoo animals; a monkey, elephant, parrot and a tiger, who has taken a liking to the new zookeeper who shows a compassion towards the animals, making their bare cages more hospitable and their lives more enjoyable. However, the zookeeper’s boss is un-impressed with the changes made to the zoo by the new zookeeper’s presence, despite the fact that the animals are happier and the number of visitors to the zoo has increased. The zookeeper boss feels as though his position is threatened, and deploys schemes to try and get rid. The animals are aware of this and will not allow it to happen, and think of plots to secure the zookeeper’s job, with him unaware of all of the attention he’s caused.
My character mood boards for characters involved in the zoo idea.
My character mood boards for characters involved in the zoo idea.
Elephant Character Mood Board
Parrot Character Mood Board
Monkey Character Mood Board
Tiger Character Mood Board
Zookeeper Character Mood Board
Zookeeper Boss Character Mood Board
The following are character designs for my dogs idea.
Rottweiler Character
Front and Side View
Back View and Action Pose
Rottweiler
Labrador Character
Front and Side View
Back View and Action Pose
Facial Expressions
Labrador
Labrador
Spike from tom and Jerry
All Dogs Go to Heaven
All Dogs Go to Heaven is a 1989 Irish-English animated film directed and produced by Don Bluth and released by United Artists. The film tells the story of two dogs, Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds) and his loyal best friend Itchy Itchiford (voiced by Dom DeLuise). Charlie is murdered, but he forsakes his place in Heaven to return to earth where he teams up with a young orphan girl, Anne-Marie (voiced by Judith Barsi) who teaches him a lesson about love.
The film was produced at Sullivan Bluth Studios in Dublin, Ireland, funded by UK-based investors Goldcrest Films. On its cinema release it competed directly with an animated feature released at the same time, The Little Mermaid produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. While it did not repeat the box-office success of Sullivan Bluth's previous feature films (An American Tail and The Land Before Time) it was very successful on home video, becoming one of the biggest-selling VHS releases ever. The film inspired a theatrical sequel, a television series and a holiday direct-to-video film.
Plot
In 1939, New Orleans, Charlie B. Barkin (Burt Reynolds), a roguish dog with a con man's charm, is working with his gangster business partner, Carface Carruthers (Vic Tayback), at a casino fashioned out of a derelict oil tanker. Carface, unwilling to share the earnings, has Charlie imprisoned at the pound, but Charlie breaks out with the help of his best friend Itchy Itchiford (Dom DeLuise). To get Charlie out of the picture for good, Carface and his sidekick, Killer (Charles Nelson Reilly), plan and execute his murder.
Charlie goes to Heaven by default, despite not having done a single nice thing in his life. Charlie cheats death by stealing his "life watch" (a glowing pocket watch) and winding it back up, allowing him to return to Earth. But now, if his watch stops, he will immediately die and go to Hell. However, as long as his life watch keeps ticking, Charlie is immortal.
Back on Earth, Charlie reunites with Itchy and plots his revenge against Carface by setting up a rival business. Carface keeps a little orphan girl named Anne-Marie (Judith Barsi) for her ability to communicate with animals, giving him an advantage when betting on races. Charlie "rescues" Anne-Marie, telling her that they will help the poor and he will find her a family but he exploits her gift just as his rival did, to make money from various animal competitions, something that she notices and becomes upset, since Charlie was using her in the same way that Carface did, but Charlie still convinces her to help him since he actually treats her fairly and kinder than Carface.
Anne-Marie and Charlie have an argument when she finds a wallet that he had stolen earlier in the film from a respectable family for startup cash. That night, Charlie has a nightmare in which he is banished to Hell and is attacked by a Hellhound (Frank Welker) and its minions.
The next day, Anne-Marie goes to return the wallet. Charlie finds her eating breakfast with the family whose wallet was stolen, where he discovers that the couple is planning to take Anne-Marie in. Charlie tricks Anne-Marie into leaving by pretending to be sick. After escaping an ambush with Carface and Killer, Charlie and Anne-Marie fall through the floor of an old warehouse into an underground sewer where they narrowly avoid being eaten by King Gator (Ken Page), a giant alligator who becomes their ally.
Itchy accuses Charlie of caring more for Anne-Marie than him or their business, Charlie, in frustration, proclaims he does not care for her at all. Anne-Marie overhears them, runs away, and is recaptured by Carface.
Charlie goes to Carface's casino/boat to rescue Anne-Marie. Carface has anticipated his arrival, and captures him. King Gator comes to their rescue, frees Charlie and eats Carface. Anne-Marie falls into the water, along with Charlie's watch. Charlie leaps into the water to save Anne-Marie and the watch, but is unable to get to both. He saves Anne-Marie and loses the watch, whereupon he dies a second time.
Anne-Marie ends up with her new family and Charlie is allowed back into Heaven, instead of Hell, since he gave his life to save his friend. He's given one more chance to give his heartfelt goodbyes to Anne-Marie, finally proving his love for her. Leaving Itchy in her care, Charlie finally departs for the afterlife, where he finds (rather comically) that Carface has also ended up in Heaven and attempts to use his clock to return home just as Charlie did. The Whippet Angel chases him down saying he won't ever be able to come back, but Charlie assures the audience they'll all be back.Dog Owner
Front, Side and Back View
Action Pose and Facial Expressions
Anime Guy
My rough synopsis for my TV series dog idea.
Dog Idea Synopsis
Series follows the adventure of two dogs and their owner. The owner's interest in travelling and sports often include a lot of travelling accompanied by his two faithful dogs. Little does he know that they aren't so faithful when his back is turned. With the rottweiler's obsession for food and the labradors passion for water, the two frequently wander off blissfully unaware of the mischief they are causing.
Character Mood Boards for my character designs involved in the dogs idea.
Rottweiler Character Mood Board
Labrador Character Mood Board
Dog Owner Character Mood Board
From this i put all of the following work in to a presentation.
From all ideas i think the synopsis of the bear and zoo idea are the better of the three. Out of these two ideas i have decided to do the bear idea as i feel the premise is aimed more to my targeted demographic and overall there is a larger availability and range of ideas that can be done for this TV series. I also feel as though the Bear, the main character in the series, has a distinguishable personality, making him more of a likeable protagonist than those of the other ideas making it more fun to watch.
Ideas where i got my Bearly Human Tv series idea from.
For my Tv series, i looked to shows like yogi bear, (as shown near the top of the blog) and phineas and Ferb's sub plot Perry the platypus. I looked to yogi bear as the series follows the tale of an anthropomorphic bear with human like characteristics. I also looked to phineas and Ferbs sub plot with perry the platypus, who lives the secret live of an agent, unknown to everyone else. I think elements of both shows cooperate in to my Tv series idea, and are combined to make the Bearly Human Tv series idea.
As i have chosen to do the bear idea for the TV series, i have written synopsis ideas for eight episodes that are to be included.
TV Series-Episode Synopsis
Bearly Human
A bear is wandering around a forest. Meanwhile, scientists and military generals are testing biological experiments implanting intelligence and human characteristics for anthropomorphic behaviour. The bear enters and gets caught in the firing line of the experiment. The bear runs off on two legs, as the scientists look surprised. Military generals order for the bear to be captured. The bear goes in to a costume shop. Wearing a detective costume, a military general mistakes him for a detective. He invites the bear back to the military base. The general makes a proposal for him to capture the bear. He gives the bear a key to an underground headquarters as thanks to the agreement. A helicopter lands blowing the bears disguise off. The general chases after him. The bear finds a soldier costume. He dresses in to it and sneaks out of the base. The bear goes to the location of the hidden base and enters. In the base, he looks out of the monitors and sees military forces and SWAT teams run by.
The Secrets Out
The bear looks around the base. He finds a variety of spy equipment. He picks up a pair of headphones. He puts them on and electrocutes himself. He picks up a watch and accidently fires miniature missiles and blows a hole in the roof which passers -by notice. Another missile fires and flies over a dinner table whilst a family is sat having dinner. The bear finds a pair of suction boots and begins to walk up the wall and across the ceiling. The ceiling collapses and the bear falls to the floor. He finds a laser pen and fires it, the laser bounces of a satellite, past an old guy, bounces of a mirror, then to a guy sat in an office with a cold cup of coffee. Cuts to the government and military generals in a meeting, telling the village folk, that a reward will be given for the bears capture. The bear hears people rioting outside. He looks through the monitors and sees an angry mob with pitchforks and wanted posters outside. A person tries to enter the base but lands in a booby trap and is sent straight back outside. The bear shrugs.
Master of Disguise
The bear looks through the monitor and sees an angry mob holding up wanted signs of him. He looks out of the window and sees people living an ordinary social life. Deciding that he wants to join them, he sneaks out of the cave and goes in a costume shop. Wearing a “child” costume he goes to the park, befriending a group of young boys. He accidently knocks a kid out with a swing and his disguise falls off. He runs back to the costume shop and buys another costume, this time as a sunbather. He sneaks in to a bathing area and relaxes on a deckchair. As he’s relaxing an old woman falls in to the swimming pool. He jumps in to save her and his costume falls off. The angry mob chases after him and he runs back in to the costume shop. He comes out disguised as an elderly woman and goes in to a bingo hall. He gets excited as he wins bingo, and punches a woman sat next to him by accident. The bear runs back to his cave and looks at the monitor, noticing that the people that he came across, such as the kids, elderly woman he saved, and the woman from the bingo hall, join the angry mob.
Dinner Disaster
The bear awakes. Hearing an ice cream van, he wears an old mans disguise and buys an ice cream, but his arm is nudged and he drops it. He is upset, so a young boy gives him money to buy another one. He goes to get one but the van is gone. The boy points to a food shop and the bear enters. He grabs an ice cream tub and his beard sticks to it. The sales assistant notices and panics. The bear puts the beard back on quickly and runs out, sitting on a bench beside a boy. As he does so, army tanks drive by and pass the bear, not knowing it’s him. The boy walks off and is confronted by two youths who take his ice cream. The bear gets the ice cream back for the boy and the youths run off. The boy’s dad sees his good deed and asks him to dinner. The bear accepts. At the house the bear drools, smelling the food, which makes his beard slip off. The boy sees he is a bear. Stuttering, he tries to tell his parents, who are oblivious. The bear tries to hide his face e.g. holding newspaper in front of face, hiding behind the boy etc. The bear, still undiscovered by the parents eats as much as he can and then exits just as quick. As he’s waving goodbye, his beard slips off. The parent’s notice and faint.
Punkish Fun
The bear wakes and looks in the newspaper to read that a theme park is opening nearby. He goes to the theme park, disguised as a punk and queues for a rollercoaster ride. On the ride, he goes through a tunnel. His Mohawk however, is too big, and falls off. The other people on the ride notice and begin to scream. When the ride ends, the bear sees that people are scared, and that his wig is missing. He finds it and runs off to a stall. He tries to win a teddy by throwing Ping-Pong balls in to a jar. However, he misses on all three attempts so, frustrated, he tries again. He starts to fail again, but as the stall owner turns away to pick up balls from the floor, the bear reaches over and places them in the jar. He claims a prize. He goes to another stall where he has to shoot targets with a gun. He cheats by taking a small laser gun from his pocket while the stall owner isn’t looking and obliterates all the targets. He collects his prize. He then goes to the tunnel of love ride. He sits on it alone but when he comes out, the lady he saved from the swimming pool is attached to him. He panics and flees, but then stops, feeling guilty he gives her a teddy before running home. Looking at the monitors he sees the elderly woman holding the teddy and ‘I love you’ sign, juxtapose of that of the angry mob around her.
Trick or Treat
The bear awakes and looking at his calendar, reads October 31st. Wearing a mummy costume he gate crashes a Halloween party. He goes bobbing for apples. The tape from around his face peels off and his face is revealed. People scream and the swat team outside, laugh, thinking it’s a Halloween prank. One of the people in the party rubs the bears face and laughs, thinking what a good disguise. The party resumes. One person gets out a scary film. The bear is frightened and hides behind the couch. The other guests laugh which embarrasses the bear. He comes up from behind the couch and growls, causing people to run. The swat team see people running. The Bear gets a bowl of popcorn and changes the TV channel until he hears the swat team, he then escapes. He spots some trick or treaters and joins them. They go trick or treating until they stumble across an old folks home. An old man answers and is nasty to the kids. The Kids scheme but the bear shakes his head. He goes to the door and knocks to find the old lady. She smiles and gives him all the candy. The bear shares his candy with the kids. They go into the woods telling scary stories. The bear starts to tell one in his grizzly voice but the kids have no idea what he is saying. He then acts it out which scares the kids. They clap, he bows then they head off. He goes home with a ton of candy, eating all of it smiling.
A friend at Christmas
Bear wakes on Christmas Eve. Excited, he runs out of his cave and sees a group of people carolling. He goes up to them and starts singing with them. Singing horribly out of tune and in bear language, the carollers look at him with shock. He looks at the village’s huge Christmas tree, picks it up and takes it to his cave. After struggling to get it in his cave, he puts it in to place giddily and then stares through the monitors. He watches family’s getting ready for Christmas and having snowball fights and fun together. He then sees the elderly woman that he saved from the pool sat on her own on a bench outside. He goes outside and invites her round for Christmas. Happily, she accepts and he rushes off to buy her a surprise Christmas present. The next morning he goes to an old folks home and meets the elderly woman. The bear fixes the stair lift there as a good deed and it carries the elderly woman slowly up the stairs. They then go to the cafeteria for Christmas dinner. As the bears about to sit down, he hears thudding noises, one after another. He looks round the corner to see elderly people flying out of the chair lift, which is out of control. He bites his claws nervously and then goes back to the table, he sits next to the woman and they begin to eat.
Holiday Joy
It’s a cold day when bear awakes. He looks outside, sees a winter fete, and sneaks out disguised as a skier. As he looks he spots a raffle to win a holiday, the Bear digs in his pockets and has no money. He sees the old lady who gives him a raffle ticket. The Bear wins the Holiday and at the airport, whilst going through customs, the monitor shows the bear out of disguise. Nobody notices. He boards the plane and sits down in 1st class. He plays with the chair controls and the chair swings back and forth. The air hostess gives a safety demonstration which scares the bear. He makes loud noises, which unnerve the passengers. He puts a bag over his mouth and hyperventilates, the air hostess reassures the bear, and takes the bag off him. When they land he gets a taxi to his hotel, goes to the room and, excited, orders everything on the menu. He jumps on the bed giddily and falls through several floors. When all thats left is rubble the bear runs to a beach. There is a beach party, the bear starts dancing. Having fun he runs over hot coals, fire breathes, then goes to a limbo pole. The day ends and shows the bear travelling home. As he lies in bed, he smiles, falling asleep. It then shows the headquarters of the travel agency who gave him the holiday, the chairman opens an envelope containing the hotel bill and faints.
I have also done some more draft designs. These are off the bear wearing different costumes that he either wears in the episodes or are possible ideas or alternatives.
Having decided doing the Bearly Human tv series idea, i have produced more characters for the series.
old lady
army
s.s.w.a.t
With the draft of my work completed, i have designed my page layouts for the book. These pages are not in order and are only a few of the pages that i produced for the book.
front cover of book
After printing the book for the first time i realised that the pages were hidden behind the binder because i didnt allow myself binding space. I altered the pages after and centered my pages from the binding space. Overall, i am quite happy with how my futures project has turned out, however if i had more time i would have centered the images for the book more, and would of done more background ideas.
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