There’s something profound here about the nature of furry, the lure of anthropomorphism. This is from an interview with Disney animator Andreas Deja, from the Los Angeles Zoo View:
For the 1994 film The Lion King, Deja was assigned Scar, the villainous uncle to the adorable lion cub, Simba. “We start out drawing a lot of lions as we see them, and then add human elements to it. I had Jeremy Irons to work with, who did the voice of Scar. The dark eyes, dark rings on his eyes, the way his mouth is shaped, the nose, the thin upper lip–I was able to incorporate some of that into Scar.” He did it well enough that when he first showed Irons video of Scar, Deja says the actor touched his own mouth and said, “My God, he looks like me!”
Interview courtesy of Animated Movies
A good quote, thanks.
Neat. Had the privilege of meeting Deja at a party about two months ago. DAMN but that was a pleasure. Not a primadonna at all. We were just holding our 3d or 4th beers and shooting the shit about Disney’s animation future, 2D vs. 3D animation, etc.
It also reminds me that we need to go to the zoo. We paid for the danged annual membership … !