- Hi I'm Tony Bancroft!
I am the co-director of Disney's
animated Mulan, and I created Kronk and Pumbaa.
- Hi I'm Kyra, lead animator and voice actor
of the Good Advice Cupcake
- And today we're drawing
- The Lion King!
- Why!
- From memory.
- Why Lion King characters?
- Because we have Tony Bancroft.
- Oh.
- Who is one of the--
- Who is a lion!
- Can I tell you something?
- What?
- I'm really terrible at drawing animals.
- Ooh, this will be good then.
- Maybe.
- Can I tell you something.
I saw the Lion King for the first time last week.
- I am here for this content.
- I love the Lion King too.
Never really have drawn a Lion King though.
(laughter)
(whimsical music)
- [Male Voiceover] Today you're drawing Timon.
- Timon.
- The sidekick to Pumbaa.
- Ooh boy, Timon
- I can draw him as well.
- I've drawn Timon a couple times.
Now why can't I draw Pumbaa though,
that was my character in the film.
- Because that would be too easy,
you know him inside and out.
- [Male Voiceover] Rafiki
(gasps)
- Rafiki, I'm so excited!
- Oh boy.
- [Male Voiceover] Scar.
(gasps)
- That's the sexy one.
- The sexy one?
- That's the sexy lion.
- Wait what?
- He's the one sultry voice
and the beautiful long hair
and it erupted a lot of furry feelings in a lot of people.
(laughs)
- So what was it like working on Lion King?
- I had a ball.
This is my all time favorite movie
that I worked on at Disney.
Mike Surrey was Supervising Animator of Timon.
And just like Pumbaa and Timon, we were best buddies.
We hung out together and we had lunch together all the time,
our families got together on vacations.
It was just like we were Pumbaa and Timon, it was crazy.
- I watched the Lion King probably about
a couple months ago.
I wanted to show it to my son.
And then I forgot, Mufasa dies.
And he's four.
(gasps)
- Your son's a baby, right?
- He's four, but he was scared of the stampede.
- Oh no.
- We didn't get to that part but.
Which is weird because we watched The Land Before Time
and he loves that movie and like the mom dies.
What is it with kids cartoons and parents dying.
- So you're talking about sexy lions.
- I think, okay, furries.
- Don't.
No, I want the furries to know that one,
I don't think being a furry is weird,
I think it's very cool to love what you do
and do what you love.
But I need the furries to tell me are the lions hot,
like are lions the hot animal.
- Okay, I will give you this, Nala is pretty hot.
- You see, like I don't understand you think Nala's hot
because she's just a girl lion!
- No, it's the way they draw her eyes, it's like hello.
(laughs)
- Why am I the weird one?
You're the one who was saying Scar was sexy.
Why are we having this conversation?
Draw your character.
- Yes, so one of the things I learned from Mike
on drawing Timon actually is that
his head is, I guess kind of like a soft diamond shape.
That really becomes the construction,
no matter if it's from a side view,
three-quarter view or front view on the character,
Mike found this way of drawing Timon
that always took off from that shape.
- That's one of my favorite things within
character design and animation is like the
structure of the shapes within the character.
- Yes, structure is a major part of
doing a Disney type feature quality character, we'll say.
Because it is about being able to turn that in space, right?
- I remember Rafiki having pretty big feet,
and Rafiki is the kind of monkey that
doesn't have a tail, right?
It's all booty.
- Yeah, he's got like that weird little red butt booty.
- Yeah, red butt, red butt.
Now that I think about it, I remember sort of
like a chest piece sort of for a.
And I remember there being like
face accoutrement of some sort.
- It feels unfair, because you just saw this movie--
- Yeah, but I didn't know what character we're drawing.
- But you said you're attracted to Nala.
- You're just going to keep going back to that, huh?
- So you love, you think Nala's hot.
- Listen if we were drawing--
- I'm not saying, that Scar is sexy in my eyes.
I'm just saying he's objectively the sexiest lion.
- And that's what I'm saying about Nala.
- I don't think so, because you said "Hello."
And I feel like, that was weird.
- I know you're going to be making him
holding a bug in some way, right.
- I, amazingly enough, did not.
- What?
- Yeah.
- That's the Hakuna Matata lifestyle that these guys lead.
- I know.
- Do you know what Hakuna Matata means?
- It means no worries.
- It means no worries!
♪ For the rest of your days ♪
- I have no idea what Rafiki looks like.
- Yeah.
- I'm committing.
- Put a ring on it.
Better put a ring on that drawing.
- So, I'm drawing Rafiki, and he looks like a lion.
(laughing)
- What's going on over there?
(laughing)
- So he's called Scar because he has a scar on his face.
- Which is kind of on the nose.
Was he born with that name?
- That's the thing,
they never explain how he got the scar on his face.
It's just like,
he's a bad guy lets give him a physical deformity.
- Do they not explain?
I feel like maybe they do and I'm not remembering.
- I don't think they do.
I think his real name is like Frank
and then when he was a teenager or something
he got in a fight with Simba's dad.
And that's why he doesn't like Simba's dad.
- I was going to say he through a phase
and he wanted to be edgier.
So he gave himself a scar and he was like call me Scar now.
- I like that story better.
- And everyone in the family was like, ha you're dumb.
- Shut up Frank.
- Shut up Frank,
get out of here.
- What is it like being apart of this
huge cultural touchstone that is The Lion King?
- It's very surreal.
This was the B movie and Pocahontas was the A movie.
It was right when our staff of animators at Disney
separated to go in two different directions
and make two movies at the same time.
Because of that all the A animators like
Glen Keene, Andreas Deja and such.
They all went on to the A film which was Pocahontas.
It gave opportunity to us younger animators
like myself and Mike Surrey to really rise up and
get an opportunity that we probably would not have gotten
any other way.
- It's awesome and crazy how stuff works like that.
- My Scar is looking regal.
- Mine is just a lion, like an angry, sexy lion.
I'll put him in a hoodie.
- Oh, you're doing like teenage Scar
like start calling me Scar.
- Yes, start calling me Scar.
Oh, I'll give him like a too big shirt from a concert.
- What concert did he go see?
- My Chemical Romance.
(laughs)
Start calling me Scar guys.
- Start calling me Scar you guys.
- Guys, you know what would be really cool.
- What Frank?
- If you guys would start calling me Scar.
- Yeah, we're not going to do that Frank.
- Oh please guys, this is really serious.
- The way that I do color.
I will pick like a primary color that I want to use
and from there I build out a pallet.
And then often times I'll take that pallet,
duplicate it and invert it.
Those contrasting colors are going to create
really interesting vibrating colors for you.
And I tend to use them when I'm doing my multiply
and my color dodge paste to add some more of like depth
to my colors.
The shorter version,
I like to pick one color and build a pallet around it.
- So Tony, have you seen the CGI Lion King?
- Oh Kyra, you're so mean.
You had to bring that up.
I will tell you, I have, absolutely and
I am not a big fan of the remakes in general.
They're popular, they're popular films
they're popular brands, people want to see them remade
and I'm happy that they're getting kind of a new
audience but,
I will say that I was not happy with CG and realistic look
of the Lion King and I feel like, shot-for-shot,
it was just like our original ones, so.
Yeah, I got to say not a huge fan of that one,
I got to say.
- Okay, I drew Jake and Finn, on my drawing.
- Did you seriously?
- This is the weirdest thing I've drawn I think.
- Like why did I do this?
There are so many decisions I made
in that 30 minutes we had and none of them are good.
- You know what, that's going to make it even better.
- So how do you think you did?
- I did terribly.
- Yeah?
- It looks pretty.
- Oh, then you didn't do terribly.
- Yeah, that's true.
- How about you?
- So this does not look like a monkey at all.
- Oh good.
- So Tony,
before we switch and see what each other drew.
We actually got some submissions from Instagram and Twitter
of people drawing Pumbaa from memory.
- Really, I totally want to see it.
Kind of fan art of Pumbaa.
Nice, Okay! - Yeah.
- So this first one is from Larissa.
- Oh, this is awesome!
- It's so cute.
- Good job Larissa.
Now this is from memory,
so they're not looking at a picture.
- I mean you're the Pumbaa expert,
but the volumes of what I remember from Pumbaa
look pretty close.
- For sure, I mean and she got the triangle nose right
except for it's upside-down.
If she just had a little bit of an eyebrow above him
and gave him a bit more hair coming down behind.
- He has like a mullet.
- Yeah, it's like kind of a mullet, exactly.
It's an amazing thing to me, is I think
people remember these characters far better than I do.
Oh, I just noticed one other thing.
She forgot the warts on the warthog.
You need like those cheeky warts sticking out.
Great job Larissa, keep up drawing.
- This one comes from Fahmi.
Wow!
- What?
It looks like a monkey.
It does, - It does look like a monkey.
it looks like a monkey
- Monkey with attitude.
I think the first thing that comes to mind for me is
texture.
And I'm also super impressed that you
nailed all of the colors.
- Thank you Fahmi.
Two thumbs up.
- Thank you Fahmi, great job.
- This is from Jankic, I think I'm saying that right.
- Oh, That's good.
This is definitely way better than what I was doing.
- This ones way better than what I did to.
- Mine is an insult to this drawing.
Well way to show us that we did terrible.
(laughs)
(whimsical music in reverse)
- Awe!
Awe, That's so great!
- You drew--
(laughing)
- I drew a lion.
- You know who you drew.
- You drew Nana.
Like a really pissed off Nana from Peter Pan.
- Awe,
oh my god!
- Yours is so fun, I love this pose.
- Thank you.
Yours is so cute.
Oh, we both put his foot up.
- This is what they should have done in the TV show.
- Oh, Wow!
(laughs)
- Oh my God.
Yours is really not a lion.
- What is it?
- Like the way you drew the legs makes it look like
it's a person in a two person dog costume,
and they're like bending down.
- Yours is a beautiful mess.
You know what.
It is if Scar was in Bowjack Horseman universe.
- We got pretty close.
- I'm proud of us.
- We did really good, we got close.
- Hakuna Matata.
- Oh yeah, I was completely off.
You have so much of like the proportions and
and the textures though.
- You got the color.
You know, I got to admit Rafiki actually is,
he's probably one of my favorite characters in the Lion King
and I couldn't even draw him to save my life.
That's the circle of life.
(Laughing)
- Oh geez.
(laughing)
- Where is his scar?
- It's over his eye.
- That's barely--
that's a Booboo.
- You know, for me, drawing these characters
really just takes me back
and they're like old buddies, they're like old friends
that you're visiting.
So, people always ask me like,
"Do you get sick and tired of drawing Pumbaa?"
I really don't because it's like, going back home.
- That's so sweet.
(cheerful music)