In Pics: Disney Artist Imagines and Designs “Wicked” as an Animated Film

Animator and visual development artist Minkyu Lee, has quite a cool portfolio. Lee has worked on films like Frozen, and as part of his visual development portfolio he took the characters from the best-selling book and musical Wicked and imagined them as if they were in their own animated adventure. He created these great images while he was studying at CalArts and interning at Disney. Here are some of the images from his animated Wicked: Why this story? Lee reveals on his blog: “I was having lunch with one of our mentors at that time, Claire Keane, in which she gave us some advice on structuring a visual development portfolio.” “One of her suggestions that stuck to me was to take one story, and dedicate the entire portfolio to it, as if you were developing that into a feature film. “This idea sounded good to me, because it made sense. It’s a semi-simulation of the kind of things you would be doing as a professional artist at Disney anyway, (which gives the reviewers a much better, reliable idea of how you would perform as a contributor) but it also gives the spectator a slightly more immersive viewing experience, as they are taken through one continuous story, with characters they understand, rather than having to adjust to brand new content with the turn of each page.” You can see more images and more about his inspiration as a visual artist on his blog. Images via Minkyu Lee