the animation maquette source

Animation maquettes are 3d sculptures made during the production of an animation film either to help develop the characters look or to create a 3d reference for the animators that accurately depicts the volumes of the characters. It is a unique object, because it is the only “real” representation of characters that otherwise only exist in a flat 2d world but nonetheless has volume in the minds of an animator (unless it is a CG film, in which case it's a character that exist in 3d only in the abstract, as numbers and data) I plan this blog to be the ultimate resource of animation maquettes, from pictures I've ammased over the years. I will highlight the works of several sculptors and you can search by the tags to find all the works by a specific artist. *** I don't own any of the content, unless specified. For educational use only.

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Brave

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Monsters University

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Kent Melton (?) - The Lion King

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Unknown - The Incredibles, Toy Story 3

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Raffaello Vecchione - The Emperor's New Groove

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Unknown - The Princess and the Frog

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Raffaello Vecchione - The Princess and the Frog

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Unknown - Fantasia

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Unknown - Pinocchio

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Jerome Ranft - Cars

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Damon Bard - Ratatouille

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Unknown - The Little Mermaid

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Jerome Ranft - Monsters Inc.

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Kent Melton - Tiny Toon Adventures

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Greg Dykstra - Up

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raffaello vecchione - Lilo and Stich

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Bud Lucky - Toy Story