Hercules (1997)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Hercules (1997) 
original production animation drawing
red and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 8.5" x 6.5"

This exceptionally nice final animation drawing of Hera, Queen of the Gods, holding the baby Hercules was created by a Disney Studio animator in production of the animated feature; it is an animator's extreme drawing with grid at upper right. It is a very finished and polished drawing yet retains the animator's red-pencil construction lines and shading. This red pencil could have been removed in the computer animation process, or a final clean-up may have been made and scanned. The animator wrote the studio designation “H60” at upper and lower right corners of the sheet to indicate this original's place in the scene.