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DAY 9: ANIMATORS

Here we have some of the main animators who brought the colorful cast of characters from the film to life, with pencil sketches of their characters. (Like the concept art from the second picture , the sketches on each of the animators’ papers ARE the real pictures they drew.) Going clockwise, there’s Andreas Deja (King Triton), Matthew O’Callaghan (Eric), Ruben Aquino (Ursula), Glen Keane (Ariel), David Pruiksma (Flounder) & Duncan Marjoribanks (Sebastian). I decided to make the drawing like a rough draft (the process of animation before clean-up artists ink the real motion & erase all pencil marks). I know there are more characters (like Scuttle, Grimsby, the eels, etc.), but I couldn’t find who their supervising animators were. I was able to see what other animators worked on the film, but I couldn’t find who animated those certain characters. & their appearances are based off how they look nowadays, not by how young they were when making this movie; I couldn’t find any pictures of them during that era.

Animators (c) theirselves
Characters (c) Disney

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DAY 9: ANIMATORS

Here we have some of the main animators who brought the colorful cast of characters from the film to life, with pencil sketches of their characters. (Like the concept art from the second picture , the sketches on each of the animators’ papers ARE the real pictures they drew.) Going clockwise, there’s Andreas Deja (King Triton), Matthew O’Callaghan (Eric), Ruben Aquino (Ursula), Glen Keane (Ariel), David Pruiksma (Flounder) & Duncan Marjoribanks (Sebastian). I decided to make the drawing like a rough draft (the process of animation before clean-up artists ink the real motion & erase all pencil marks). I know there are more characters (like Scuttle, Grimsby, the eels, etc.), but I couldn’t find who their supervising animators were. I was able to see what other animators worked on the film, but I couldn’t find who animated those certain characters. & their appearances are based off how they look nowadays, not by how young they were when making this movie; I couldn’t find any pictures of them during that era.

Animators (c) theirselves
Characters (c) Disney