Animation Artifacts &Bill Peckmann &Disney &Illustration &Models &Rowland B. Wilson 14 Jun 2010 08:28 am
Rowland Wilson at Disney – 2
- Here are more of the stunning pre-production watercolors Rowland B. Wilson did for The Hunchback of Notre Dame while working at Disney. (Last week’s post can be found here.)
This group of images is labelled, “The Siege” and concerns itself with the climax of the film where the people storm Notre Dame Cathedral and Quasimodo pours oil on them. These pictures are so beautiful (and large) that I can’t help but split them up so you can see some of the closeup detail.
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Now this is a Hunchback I could love.
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These two character designs look like they were influenced
by Richard Williams’ “Cobbler & the Thief.” Since Rowland worked
with Dick in London, it’s possible.
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Errol Le Cain by way of Rowland B. Wilson. Beautiful.
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At first I wasn’t sure which end was up on this image.
It might be correctly viewed counter-clockwise.
However, the label in the lower left should be the lower left.
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Many thanks to Bill Peckmann for the generous loan of this material.
Next week Hercules.
on 14 Jun 2010 at 2:00 pm 1.Eric Noble said …
My god, these are absolutely beautiful. Rowland B. Wilson was a true master. He could pull off both great comedy and powerful drama. I can’t wait to see his work on Hercules. I would have loved to have seen this up on screen.
Did you not like Hunchback?
on 15 Jun 2010 at 7:05 am 2.Stephen Macquignon said …
Inspirational!
Thanks for sharing
on 19 Apr 2013 at 1:14 pm 3.Kevin said …
Absolutely beautiful.