Glen Keane

Glen Keane Gallery
The following images are developement sketches used in Disney movies.
Please do not use or redistribute these images without permission!!

Some basic information on Glen Keane:
A supervising animator at WD Feature Animation, he graduated from Calarts in 1974. One of his first big animated scenes was on The Fox and the Hound, where he animated the raw power of the bear fight sequence. He survived the Bluth studio split following the Black Cauldron's bomb and since then he's worked at the studio (taking some time off to do some freelance work, study and some storybooks inbetween). His most well-known supervising credits include Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective), Ariel (The Little Mermaid), Marihute (sp?) (The Rescuers Down Under), Beast (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin (Aladdin), Pocahontas (Pocahontas), and Tarzan (Tarzan)
In addition to his character animation work, Glen also has storyboarded out numerous scenes that made it into animation, including the big fall scene in The Rescuers Down Under where Marihute catches Cody, the scene in Pocahontas where John Smith and Pocahontas first meet as well as a large portion of the Colors of the Wind sequence and MANY sequences in Tarzan.

Now on to the pictures!
ALL the below images are COPYRIGHT Walt Disney Feature Animation!


Glen Keane's Quick Sketch Drawings


ratigan.jpg
Three extremes of Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective.

Many animators work out attitudes and motions for their next scene in small almost thumb-sized drawings, called thumbnail sketches. This way when they animate, they've already worked out the difficult problems and poses in the scene. These are several thumbnail sketches done by Glen before he started animating the "Part of Your World" scene in the Little Mermaid.

prince.jpg
Rough animation of the beast in his human "prince" form.


anatomy.jpg
Development of the Beast (skeletal structure)


beast5.jpg
development of the beast


beast6.jpg
early development of the beast

beastcon.jpg
Beast considers Belle's offer replacing herself for her father. (from Batb: A Work in Progress) scanned for my by Adrian.


bgo.jpg
(most likely clean-up). The Beast lets Belle go.

bigbeast.jpg
A developmental sketch of the beast.

alpun.jpg
Rough animation frame of Aladdin saying "Punctual" to Princess Jasmine.

illdoit.jpg
thumbnail sketches of Aladdin saying "I'll do it" (saying he'll set the Genie free)

lean.jpg
Three extremes of Aladdin attempting to woo Jasmine. (note how rough it is!!)

rufrun.jpg
Three extremes of Aladdin running. (this is super rough keys, check out the lines!) It's from the "One Jump Ahead" sequence.

Aladdin Model Sheet:
(gesture sketches with notes of Aladdin used as models done by Glen Keane)


pwind.jpg
Rough animation frame of Pocahontas feeling the wind.

This is a hair study of Pocahontas running.
(several drawings on one sheet in succession) These are rough drawings that were used in Pocahontas' developement.

This is another hair study of Pocahotas. In this one she is flipping her hair back. (several drawings on one sheet in succession) These are rough drawings that were used in Pocahontas' developement.

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