Saturday, January 21, 2006

Milt Kahl's eyebrows


















I thought that I was drawing this kind of eyebrows on my characters because of Milt Khal's influence on my design. But some people here in Dreamworks have a different theory. First Nicolas Marlet, and now Patric Mate', showed me that I draw that kind of eyebrows because I HAVE those eyebrows. Have a look at this Patrick Mate' caricature of me and decide for yourself.

19 comments:

Jeff Merritt said...

I like the brows. Great sense of emotion in your characters poses, you can do alot with the droopy eyebrows. Its hard not to have the eyes not be the main focus of the character, but with yours the pose speaks for itself.

Unknown said...

Bellissimo, anche se schizzati, sono davvero espressivi!
passando a Dylan Dog, io ho soltanto "La maschera del demonio", quali sono gli altri albi che hai disegnato? Anche io lavoro per Bonelli , disegno Julia ( di G. Berardi ), ma spero di allargarmi un pò su altri fronti! Complimenti per il tuo lavoro , ti ammiravo come fumettaro ed è lo stesso come animatore.

Wonderful, it' only a sketch but really expressive!

Unknown said...

complimenti gabriele bei disegni

jesusalonsoiglesias said...

amazing work!! i really like everything i´ve seen in your blog. the characters, sketches, color, movement everything is great. i´ll link you in my blog for sure, and i´ll be back often.

Perry Linton Joseph Osuna said...

The work is here is just inspiring full of life and acting, it leads it self to be animated right off the bat. A joy to view and exprience looking forward to more of your work!!!

Fabio Lai said...

Complimenti.
Per il leone e per le sopracciglia.

Martin Wittig said...

Awesome as always.
martin
http://martinwittig.blogspot.com/
http://www.martinwittig.com

Cedricstudio said...

Love yer drawingz! Very expressive.

Unknown said...

ciao Gabriele
cero che puoi fare tutti i disegni che vuoi...
anzi sono proprio curioso di vedere quello che farai. allora a presto

John S. said...

You have some beautiful stuff here, man. Great acting, expressive gestures. Awesome.

Boris Hiestand said...

lovely stuff as usual- and of course- great eyebrows- whether they're yours or Kahl's!

Don't you get frustrated sometimes that you can't stretch/ deform your character to poses like this in 3d?(though I suppose at Dreamworks you must be working with pretty amazing rigs eh?)

Unknown said...

That's a fun character!

unbemerkt said...

hehehe. cool and loose style. i like the (your) eye brows!
heheheee

willipino said...

nice. he looks like an 80s glam rock star... or maybe bon jovi. very cool! (the drawing, not bon jovi)

Gabriele Pennacchioli said...

Thanks guys for your compliments!

Boris- Talking about 2D feeling in 3d. I think on "Madagascar" the animators did a pretty good job. Don't you think?

Willie- You are right. After I read your comment I was looking at my lion and I thought... Yes this could be the lion version of the character that Bill Nighy was playing in "Love Actually"!

Insertname said...

I can see a little bit of Kristof Serrand in the left one...oui, oui, he, he, he!

Simon

Sandra Khoo said...

Ahahaha,possibly....possibly. XD

rngnt99 said...

WOW!!! What a great lion!!! Can't wait to see more!!!!

Kelsey said...

The sense of character you get from so few lines is really amazing.

Great stuff!