Oh I love Nala! I thought she was a great character and rival for Simba as well as best friend. I can't quite agree with what they did with her in Lion King 2, though. Especially her eye color. She had like seafoam green in the first movie and then they changed it to like dark blue in the second one. Your models are expressive and creative. I'll never get over my love of this movie. 👍
It's really nice to see something like this come to light. Doesn't Disney have a huge vault full of archived animation like this? I can't even imagine the amount of scrapped/alternate animated shots they have there that have never been brought to the surface.
Damn Disney, I'd rather prefer them to re-release the classic animated back into the theater and I'll rewatch them everyday instead of remaking them into soulless CG cash grab.
@@metaknight1410 Osamu tezuka did too. his daughter or other family member found a bunch of furry transformation sketches in his desk. Like nowadays, they didn't want any onboard artists to have their 'illicit' art attached to sully their name and not look good at least until their job was done. so they took them and kept them hidden away only for those in the know... to know.
@Lady Wander I call bullcrap + it's still no excuse to shit on their own 2D past by making these horrible live action adoptations Animation allready has gotten so little respect and with this crap they only make it worse.
@@toongrowner1 horrible? Did you actually see the movies? They were really good. Aladdin tops them all imo. Ofcourse the originals were great but todays youth deserves something new from this era
thing is: it's supposed to be expressive! it's meant to be fun and fluid and get the character's personality across in a short span of time. meanwhile it seems like the full focus of the remake is to Look Super Realistic, not expressive.
I like the way her ears moved as her head moved up and down. When I was in college I got to tour the Glendale studio during the production of Aladdin. They took us to a big room where there were hundreds of storyboards for the Lion King hanging on the walls.
Nicolle *lots and lots of studying Not everyone takes “years and years”, and also, the years or “practice” don’t matter much. You need to properly study. Drawing what you think a lion looks like without ever studying real lions (from photos, videos, other artists, etc.) you won’t get much closer, and yes, it WILL take “years and years” if you just “practice”. But studying a lot, will get you there both faster, and better.
Alina Nechiporenko split the difference and make it both? Since studying can only take you so far without applying what you learn. And speed in particular is something you gain with experience. So my final verdict is years of guided practice then! (also thanks!)
Seeing this was beautiful. Fantastic piece of animation and i like how it had Nala try and speak sense into Simba. Making her just slightly more mature and sensible about dangers.
That is a amazing gift for your daughter 💙✨✨ Very precious and that is one of the first steps to creating a character for one of the most famous Disney movies in history 💙 That is definitely a piece of history
The fact that someone, not the original artist, took care of this for almost 30 years, only to return it to a relative of the original artist is simply amazing. I see the world still has some good people in it. I don't even take that good of care with my own old work. :(
That's so beautiful, I teared up. She has always been one of my favourite characters of all time; The Lion King (the real, better, original) came out when I was just two and I grew up with her character having the whole movie memorized before my teens. Thank you so very much for all your work. It is so sweet that you based her on your daughter!!!
I just want to say how thankful I am that your sharing your beautifull artwork to us. Your work reminds me why I fell in love with animation in the first place, and keeps me hanging on to the dream of becoming an artist. Your art is filled with so much soul and humanity that it reminds me that such things still exist. Thank you.
This something that's an absolute gem and I'm happy that your daughter received as a gift. I do like this design of Nala. It gives her a more teenage look in design like a transition from cub to lioness. I love this and your work in The Lion King which inspires me to become an animator.
I miss this way of making animation. Today I received the Andymation's Flipbook Kit and I cannot wait to make my own stories, and see the magic. A bunch of drawings put together and seeing the characters come to life. It's just amazing.
Dear God I can't imagine how awesome it must feel to have taken part in creating a character for one of the best Disney movies out there! I bet your daughter feels awesome too to be the inspiration for a real Disney character. 😭 Honestly everything about this is just so cool. Your an incredible animator man! ♥️
I watched The Lion King so much as a kid that I knew the movie word for word. It's pretty cool seeing original sketches like this still in that good of shape after all these years. Pretty neat that they found their way back to you and your daughter after all these years as well.
This is so amazing and nostalgic! 😭 The Lion King was my ultimate favorite disney movie and it still is. I have grown up appreciating animation and it’s crazy to see something like this even at 27 years old. You have inspired me to create and dive into animation.
After seeing the live action version of the movie you can see how great these drawings really are. The character comes through so much more in these drawings than the whole of the remake.
I wish disney would draw at least one of the new movies by hand again. The facial expressions of a hand drawn creature, is way much deeper and full of heart and soul. Any chance this will happen in the near future? Ps.: You did a great job! I love your animation of Nala.
I am going to dedicate my whole life to animation and drawing. this video just makes me so hyped up for the future :D one day, I would be animating films for you all
The Lion LìKing was my favourite movie for A LOT of time! I'm so happy to discover this precious little (not so little!) thing. Thank you to share with us this piace of Disney's movies history! :)
Thank you so much for sharing this! I absolutely love seeing old concepts and animations for the lionking! Someone should do a proper animation of this because it looks great, it would be lovely to see in colors as a polished animation.
Hey Aaron, I was at your stream today, I’m the fellow who asked you about your charcoals. But little did I know my mother was gonna surprise me with tickets to the new lion king movie! It was great and super cool to see the original!
It's amazing to have found your youtube account! It was because of artists like you that I wanted to go work for Disney when I grew up. Unfortunately I was dissuaded from pursuing animation because I believed 3D animation would replace hand drawn animation before I could graduate and my parents were super skittish about the whole idea. It's definitely a life choice I regret- even though I was right (to a point, I still could have become a story artist). I went back to school a few years ago for an architectural degree, but I still doodle in my spare time. I even do little animations here and there but I've never really developed my skill to a professional level. But hey! I still have time on this Earth, and I don't think anything could convince me to stop drawing so maybe one day I'll get to that level!
John Lasseter destroyed it. But we got good news, Jennifer Lee has taken over Walt Disney animation studios to bring Hand drawn animation back for future projects. Xxx
I'm a beginner for drawing. But i tried drawing Simba from Lion King. I don't know if people will like it or not, i just put on my channel. Nala is kind of unique too. I want to draw Nala next. 😍
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Oh I love Nala! I thought she was a great character and rival for Simba as well as best friend.
I can't quite agree with what they did with her in Lion King 2, though. Especially her eye color. She had like seafoam green in the first movie and then they changed it to like dark blue in the second one.
Your models are expressive and creative. I'll never get over my love of this movie. 👍
I just can't wait to be an animator
Wow your a creative person I can’t even draw a square
you are truly an art, even back then
Amazing Work.
It's really nice to see something like this come to light. Doesn't Disney have a huge vault full of archived animation like this? I can't even imagine the amount of scrapped/alternate animated shots they have there that have never been brought to the surface.
I am pretty sure they do. This is Disney history we are talking about, so most likely their historical pieces are kept for good measure.
Damn Disney, I'd rather prefer them to re-release the classic animated back into the theater and I'll rewatch them everyday instead of remaking them into soulless CG cash grab.
They also have a ton of drawn porn made by bored artists/animators in that vault that prolly will never come to light as well.
@@metaknight1410 Osamu tezuka did too. his daughter or other family member found a bunch of furry transformation sketches in his desk. Like nowadays, they didn't want any onboard artists to have their 'illicit' art attached to sully their name and not look good at least until their job was done. so they took them and kept them hidden away only for those in the know... to know.
@@BarryChoppa
Really? I had no clue. That's really nuts lol.
I see what you mean about her being a bit different in the pencil test. It appears that her voice was much lower in these early tests.
That was him speaking the line, he's talking about her visual design ^^
Edit: I've noticed it's a joke, thanks for the r/woosh 😉
SpaceCat Scribbles I'm sorry but... I have to say it...
*R/woooosh*
@@toho2811 oof I'm stupid 😹
LOOK! ONE IN THE WILD! A RARE SIGHTING!
SpaceCat Scribbles woosh
"He gave them to her as birthday present."
Awww! That is such a thoughtful gift! Amazing that Tim Hodge held onto those drawings all these years .
This is so bouncy and gorgeous!! Her design actually looks a lot like Kiara here!
I was thinking the same. She looks so much like Kiara.
Humanistic Horsemanship that’s true! Guess it’s the family resemblance haha
@@specialbuddies3826 well duh
@@specialbuddies3826 Can you read?
Not to be that dude but, wouldnt be the one kiara that looks like (nala) though? Not the other way around?
2D Animation is so underrated. I‘d rather watch this for 2 hours straight than the „live action“ Remake
"'Live action'........... She's so pretentious it's CGI"
*than
@Lady Wander I call bullcrap + it's still no excuse to shit on their own 2D past by making these horrible live action adoptations
Animation allready has gotten so little respect and with this crap they only make it worse.
@Lady Wander they literally own 20% of film lmao they're fucking loaded. They can do shit in the likes of Into the Spiderverse if they actually cared.
@@toongrowner1 horrible? Did you actually see the movies? They were really good. Aladdin tops them all imo. Ofcourse the originals were great but todays youth deserves something new from this era
I really wish 2D animation would get much more respect than it get's, it's such a wonderfull artform
It's incredible.
Yeah it's beautiful I wish we could see more of it in movies
@ABDoesThings Not everyone is a anime fan. Nothing against anime, but I prefer cartoons... and don't even start with "but isn't it same thing?" bs
@@toongrowner1 yeah, it's really not! Anime just has this specific feel to it, wich cartoons don't have.
@@flopin9888 And the other way around, so, thank you
This short test has more expressions than the totality of the live action remake
thing is: it's supposed to be expressive! it's meant to be fun and fluid and get the character's personality across in a short span of time. meanwhile it seems like the full focus of the remake is to Look Super Realistic, not expressive.
@@L3cargo if that is indeed the focus of the live action remake, then I say whoever directed is made a terrible mistake
I like the way her ears moved as her head moved up and down. When I was in college I got to tour the Glendale studio during the production of Aladdin. They took us to a big room where there were hundreds of storyboards for the Lion King hanging on the walls.
Almost brings tears to my eyes.. traditional animation will always be my favorite animation medium.
me too
I really need to take notes on how you do such good lipsync in short amounts of time
i think the answer is years and years of practice
Nicolle *lots and lots of studying
Not everyone takes “years and years”, and also, the years or “practice” don’t matter much. You need to properly study. Drawing what you think a lion looks like without ever studying real lions (from photos, videos, other artists, etc.) you won’t get much closer, and yes, it WILL take “years and years” if you just “practice”. But studying a lot, will get you there both faster, and better.
Nicolle also I love your profile of Donald as a goose lol
Alina Nechiporenko split the difference and make it both? Since studying can only take you so far without applying what you learn. And speed in particular is something you gain with experience. So my final verdict is years of guided practice then!
(also thanks!)
idk but funnily enough the design and movements reminds me very much of Kiara
I thought the same
the movement too
Makes me wished you had your own daughter record the lines to fit better with the test animation.
Idk maybe she was busy or didn't want to be recorded?
@@ArtOfShannonLee Possibly.
@Maxxson Jaxxson I would get that, but I mean as an adult. Since women voice, actors can keep their younger girly voices, even when older.
Tyler Rakstis not me
@@sweets_Cat88 What?
There's something so relaxing about watching you flip through dozens of rough drawings.
Next thing you know, you'll hear:
"DISNEY, OPEN UP!!
Hand over our property!"
less than 5 second but has such a rich emotion shown..
Seeing this was beautiful. Fantastic piece of animation and i like how it had Nala try and speak sense into Simba. Making her just slightly more mature and sensible about dangers.
I got an ad for the live action remake and I have to say this was way more enjoyable. Truly a fascinating piece of animation history
That is a amazing gift for your daughter 💙✨✨ Very precious and that is one of the first steps to creating a character for one of the most famous Disney movies in history 💙 That is definitely a piece of history
The fact that someone, not the original artist, took care of this for almost 30 years, only to return it to a relative of the original artist is simply amazing. I see the world still has some good people in it. I don't even take that good of care with my own old work. :(
1. Looks simple enough to draw that
2. Tries to draw it
3. Scares children away
Oh my God! It's like a piece of history had resurfaced! What a great gift for her and Thank you for showing us!
That's so beautiful, I teared up. She has always been one of my favourite characters of all time; The Lion King (the real, better, original) came out when I was just two and I grew up with her character having the whole movie memorized before my teens. Thank you so very much for all your work. It is so sweet that you based her on your daughter!!!
I just want to say how thankful I am that your sharing your beautifull artwork to us. Your work reminds me why I fell in love with animation in the first place, and keeps me hanging on to the dream of becoming an artist. Your art is filled with so much soul and humanity that it reminds me that such things still exist. Thank you.
This something that's an absolute gem and I'm happy that your daughter received as a gift. I do like this design of Nala. It gives her a more teenage look in design like a transition from cub to lioness. I love this and your work in The Lion King which inspires me to become an animator.
I miss this way of making animation. Today I received the Andymation's Flipbook Kit and I cannot wait to make my own stories, and see the magic.
A bunch of drawings put together and seeing the characters come to life. It's just amazing.
A great little insight into Nala. I love the way her ears flop!
So beautiful! Nala is my favourite character from The Lion King. Thank you for sharing this
I am always stunned about how amazing your animation carrer has been Aaron. Designing a character for Lion King...not many things can beat that.
Dear God I can't imagine how awesome it must feel to have taken part in creating a character for one of the best Disney movies out there! I bet your daughter feels awesome too to be the inspiration for a real Disney character. 😭 Honestly everything about this is just so cool. Your an incredible animator man! ♥️
I watched The Lion King so much as a kid that I knew the movie word for word. It's pretty cool seeing original sketches like this still in that good of shape after all these years. Pretty neat that they found their way back to you and your daughter after all these years as well.
Need this to cleanse my eyes if I ever go watch the “live action”
This is so amazing and nostalgic! 😭 The Lion King was my ultimate favorite disney movie and it still is. I have grown up appreciating animation and it’s crazy to see something like this even at 27 years old. You have inspired me to create and dive into animation.
Absolutely adorable! Unique skill, unmatched today.
The emphasis in her expression when she says the word "Is"...wow is this guy good.
I like her old design, too! The subtle eyelashes are cute.
That's a treasure :D
Love it.
After seeing the live action version of the movie you can see how great these drawings really are. The character comes through so much more in these drawings than the whole of the remake.
THIS TYPE OF CARE FOR ONE'S WORK NEEDS TO COME BACK. 2D NEEDS TO COME BACK!
I am tipping my toes into frame by frame 2d animation, so i love seeing those beginnings and makings of animated sceens! Thank you!
I love the hand drawn animation! Thanks for sharing that - what a wonderful gift for your daughter !
I wish disney would draw at least one of the new movies by hand again. The facial expressions of a hand drawn creature, is way much deeper and full of heart and soul. Any chance this will happen in the near future? Ps.: You did a great job! I love your animation of Nala.
It takes so much time and effort to make a 2d animated movie. Not to mention alot of paper.
Awww so cute! I love how she kind of bounces when she moves :)
This is f*cink amazing, the work of a true master! So much respect for this man's art.
Oh wow this really makes me indescribably happy.
Wow!! That's so cool that you designed Nala. My childhood! Thanks for sharing, sir!!
What an amazing thing to have! Your own little piece of Pride Rock! 💜🦁
This is so pure and beautiful and I love this!!
Absolutely love seeing traditional! I look up to you not gonna lie. Absolutely adore your animation.
WOW!! You made it flow so smoothly and got so much emotion out of PENCIL SKETCHES :o
Wow, that is so cool! I love Lion King growing up.
YOU WORKED ON THE LION KING??! 🙀🙀 You’re my hero!! Oh man, I wish that you and the other animators could’ve came back to do the remake!
I am going to dedicate my whole life to animation and drawing. this video just makes me so hyped up for the future :D
one day, I would be animating films for you all
When I first watched this, I couldn't help hearing the test dialogue in Niketa Calame's voice...
The Lion LìKing was my favourite movie for A LOT of time! I'm so happy to discover this precious little (not so little!) thing. Thank you to share with us this piace of Disney's movies history! :)
Thank you so much for sharing this! I absolutely love seeing old concepts and animations for the lionking! Someone should do a proper animation of this because it looks great, it would be lovely to see in colors as a polished animation.
It's so fluent and beautiful thanks for showing these
Beautiful gift I hope she'll keep those forever
What's really impressive is how you still remembered the dialogue
That drawing style looks so satisfying! And The Disney-style itself! :3
Thank you for animating something that has a good design and a personality!
Animation gold.
I think you are my favorite animator!
that looks so amazing, that sounds like one of the coolest presents ever :,0
Way cool! Glad you have it back in your hands. Kinds funny how it came full circle like that.
Thanks for uploading!
Would love to have high resolution scans of this animation.
I love the voiceover.
Hey Aaron, I was at your stream today, I’m the fellow who asked you about your charcoals.
But little did I know my mother was gonna surprise me with tickets to the new lion king movie! It was great and super cool to see the original!
Very nice to see, amazing all the work just to prepare for the movie.
A really great animation.
Master!!! Big hug from Brazil! ❤️
It's amazing to have found your youtube account! It was because of artists like you that I wanted to go work for Disney when I grew up. Unfortunately I was dissuaded from pursuing animation because I believed 3D animation would replace hand drawn animation before I could graduate and my parents were super skittish about the whole idea. It's definitely a life choice I regret- even though I was right (to a point, I still could have become a story artist). I went back to school a few years ago for an architectural degree, but I still doodle in my spare time. I even do little animations here and there but I've never really developed my skill to a professional level. But hey! I still have time on this Earth, and I don't think anything could convince me to stop drawing so maybe one day I'll get to that level!
So glad you found me! It's never too late :)
John Lasseter destroyed it. But we got good news, Jennifer Lee has taken over Walt Disney animation studios to bring Hand drawn animation back for future projects. Xxx
This makes me so happy!
How lovely, really get the chills! of history !
Dude you’re so talented I love it ❤️
Your so inspirational to me and your art has inspired me to make own channel. Thank you Aaron you great bean 😂
I love 2d animations, it brings LIFE and EMOTION to the film
wow, what a talent and a story!
Your honestly incredible
I didn’t know that she was based of your daughter, that’s such a cool way of showing her some love
Disney should releases a series of left out animations for each of thier 2d films to be enjoyed.
This method of animation needs to come back!
Nala is my favorite character from lion king
You're a wonderful person, your videos inspire me so much!
You're very talented as a Disney artist along with your friend. I miss 2d animation.
What an incredible gift :)
Thank you for even sharing this with us
2D animation is 200000 times better than the 3D one.
How beautiful and artistic this is...
Wow so smooth!!
Thank you for sharing this. Its super super cute!
I kinda liked the old design better. I don’t know why they scraped it
Holy shit, it’s like a historical artifact! Hope his daughter takes very good care of it. :)
I'm a beginner for drawing. But i tried drawing Simba from Lion King. I don't know if people will like it or not, i just put on my channel. Nala is kind of unique too. I want to draw Nala next. 😍
Your art style is cute
That is amazing. Shared it instantly.
This is so cool! I hope to become a professional animator one day and animate for movies like this.
Wow
Oh I'm amazed, I didn't know you worked on the Lion King! (Unfortunately it never came to me?)
What a great lovely memory
This is really cool!
Aw that’s so sweet ! ❤️
This is so cool !! You are very talented !!!!!!!!!!
Soooo aweeesome!!!
This inspires me to become an animator ❤️