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Published: 2011-09-13 14:42:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 45109; Favourites: 1717; Downloads: 954
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Description LION KING WEEK, day #2 continues! This is in honor of Lion King 3D being released on Friday here in the U.S. These are three key drawings from a scene I animated (over 20 years ago now!) of Simba when he's trying to get Nala to come with him to see the Elephant Graveyard. "I'll show you when we GET there!" (I was still learning how to draw him and made his head and ears too small, they fixed that in clean up. Thank you wonderful clean up artists!)

I added a small inset frame from the film so you can see what was changed- actually, not that much. I think we just made his body a bit smaller rather than change the head. Its been a looong time.
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Comments: 191

cubbykovu [2017-01-21 12:40:58 +0000 UTC]

Did you reeally work on the lion king ?  

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kalynvalcourt [2016-10-29 00:21:35 +0000 UTC]

Wait wait wait!!!! Did I read that right? You worked do on the lion king film That was one of my favorite films going up and still is What other cartoons have you worked on

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aAshleyB [2015-11-30 08:25:53 +0000 UTC]

This makes me want to cry happy tears!  My favorite movie of all time!

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D1n0-Mann94 [2014-09-12 01:25:44 +0000 UTC]

You, sir, are a GOD among men for taking part of my absolute favorite motion picture of all time.

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KristallPrisma [2014-09-04 01:46:16 +0000 UTC]

Amazing artwork! You're very lucky to have been able to animate such a beautiful film. 

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GiuseppeDiMaio [2014-03-04 23:11:41 +0000 UTC]

awesome!!! i love this movie! I hope to become a disney character design! *.*

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abrisav [2013-03-04 13:42:29 +0000 UTC]

Dear Tom! Thank you for your work!

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tombancroft In reply to abrisav [2013-03-04 15:25:16 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

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Da-Reall [2013-03-01 03:04:02 +0000 UTC]

There was so much talent behind the hand drawn animated movies! I used this as a reference when doing practices of Simba (I recreated frames 23 and 39). I wish they still did great drawn animated movies like The Lion King today.

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SciFiBeatlesGleek [2012-11-23 22:18:39 +0000 UTC]

this is soooooo awesome!! I love Lion King! I'm glad you and all the other people from Disney took the time and passion to animate this wonderful movie!

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Purrish [2012-11-04 14:03:23 +0000 UTC]

Hi! Quick question, if you don't mind. Were you the only one who animated cub Simba? Did multiple people animate the same characters (excluding their older versions)?

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tombancroft In reply to Purrish [2012-11-04 22:05:35 +0000 UTC]

I was one of about five animators who animated Young Simba.

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Purrish In reply to tombancroft [2012-11-05 21:57:12 +0000 UTC]

That's amazing! How in the world did all of them manage to get the same character design down? Sorry for the barrage of questions XD

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tombancroft In reply to Purrish [2012-11-05 23:18:43 +0000 UTC]

Model sheets and a supervising animator that went over the drawings.

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Purrish In reply to tombancroft [2012-11-05 23:21:32 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Cybrogue [2012-09-28 07:02:08 +0000 UTC]

Wow, awesome. Lion King was one of the films that inspired me to draw in the first place.

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pugofpower [2012-09-26 03:48:39 +0000 UTC]

You are a disney animator?

Wow! May I say you are a HUGE insperation to me! Your work is fun and beautiful, and animators like you give me inspiration in my everyday life : ) Thank you for making this movie! It is indubitably one of the most amazing movies ever created <3

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tombancroft In reply to pugofpower [2012-09-26 14:23:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I was one of many, many people on that film, but I'll take my proportionate amount of that thank you!

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silverstream11 [2012-07-16 18:45:23 +0000 UTC]

haha i can even read what he is saying - I'll show you when we GET there

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catderson [2012-07-09 03:42:55 +0000 UTC]

oh my goodness...you are the animator of Simba?! That is so amazing! Well first of all, you did a terrific job animating him, but oh my gosh I never thought I'd get to meet you! Simba has been my favorite character since I don't even know when and he was my main inspiration to start drawing anything. I have come so far since then, but Simba was definitely a huge factor on my art. Thanks so much for animating him, and it is such an honor to know you just might see this comment.

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tombancroft In reply to catderson [2012-07-09 18:16:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much for the nice comments. I didn't do ALL of Simba. Not even all of Young Simba. There were about 5 of us doing Young Simba. I was blessed to work on him and do some of the fun scenes of him though. Keep drawing from your heart!

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catderson In reply to tombancroft [2012-07-10 01:32:04 +0000 UTC]

thank you so much!

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KyuubiCore [2012-07-03 18:55:02 +0000 UTC]

Omg you are the animator of young Simba!? He is my favorite character from Lion King 1, I'm honored to meet you!!! ^^ I can't stop watching the first part xDD

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Znoff [2012-07-02 18:48:26 +0000 UTC]

Wait, you animated the young Simba? That's so amazing! I saw this movie for the first time when I was four years old and I have loved it so much since then, but I never believed that I could actually meet an animator from TLK here. I have always admired the animation of the movie, and you did so brilliant work on Simba. For so many times I have laughed at his hilarious face expressions. You have no idea how happy I am now. Without your great animator skills the best movie I have ever known wouldn't be the same.

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tombancroft In reply to Znoff [2012-07-02 19:23:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Elliekin [2012-06-08 02:10:29 +0000 UTC]

I was looking through your gallery enjoying your Disney art, and it was a pretty amazing moment when I realised you were actually one of the animators of TLK. That's hands-down my favourite movie, and part of that is because of the wonderful art. So I wanted to say wow, you did an amazing job and thank you for making such a fantastic film.

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tombancroft In reply to Elliekin [2012-06-11 02:49:00 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much. I have fond memories of working on TLK.

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Nostalgic90s [2012-05-21 09:40:44 +0000 UTC]

I just want to say, THANKS SO MUCH!
Your work on this movie is appreciated so much! I have been trying to track down the amazing people who have worked on this movie just to say thanks.
I could spend hours writing how much i loved the movie, but I just want to get to the point.
Thanks so much for all the time and effort you put into this movie, it has been adored for years by generations and by me, Thanks. So. Much.

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tombancroft In reply to Nostalgic90s [2012-05-21 13:31:19 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I appreciate that heartfelt thanks. It was great to work on, we had no idea it would go on to affect so many people, of course. AND they paid us! Not a bad deal.

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Nostalgic90s In reply to tombancroft [2012-05-22 08:16:18 +0000 UTC]

Well, it really is appreciated!
Thanks so much!

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MightyMorphinPower4 [2012-04-21 10:01:15 +0000 UTC]

Cute and adorbale one of simba here

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LumosLightning [2011-12-30 02:18:12 +0000 UTC]

Wow! This is so awesome, thanks for sharing!! We just saw TLK again in theatres in 3D, and it was such a great experience; the audience was both young and old, and everyone had a fantastic time. There was applause at the beginning and the end, and some places in the middle. Truly a work of art that movie.

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tombancroft In reply to LumosLightning [2011-12-30 04:38:37 +0000 UTC]

That's great!

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LetterBomb92 [2011-12-13 08:20:56 +0000 UTC]

These are seriously beautiful. I can never find much TLK lineart like this on the net (usually just model sheets etc). I'm working on lip syncing a lot on my animation course and these have given me so much inspiration for the expressions and mouth movement, so thank you!!
did you work on just the key frames or inbetweens too?

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tombancroft In reply to LetterBomb92 [2011-12-13 18:42:30 +0000 UTC]

I think I did all the in-betweens on this one also.

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SJArt117 [2011-12-06 22:07:16 +0000 UTC]

I'LL TELL YOU WHEN WE GET THERE!

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Archon89 [2011-10-16 14:05:22 +0000 UTC]

Just.....wonderful!! It's so beautiful to see all of these "behind-the-scene" work of this masterpiece movie...thank you!

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Britt315 [2011-10-10 23:58:19 +0000 UTC]

Wow! You worked for Disney! I would absolutley love to work for disney! But wow these look great! I always love to see the key drawings! I'd love to see more of the work you've done!

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SamsterFX45 [2011-10-10 07:07:24 +0000 UTC]

YOU'RE AN ANIMATING GOD!!!!

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tombancroft In reply to SamsterFX45 [2011-10-10 14:00:31 +0000 UTC]

Hadn't heard that one before, thanks.

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katanimate [2011-09-18 21:59:58 +0000 UTC]

Wow, this is one of my favorite scenes in the movie because of Simba's expressions. The Lion King is what inspired me to become an artist.

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kalynvalcourt [2011-09-18 21:06:34 +0000 UTC]

Wow crazy good

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fluffyfuzzball [2011-09-18 18:54:12 +0000 UTC]

Aw maan, it must be such a cool feeling knowing you animated part of such a legendary movie

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Sophillia [2011-09-16 22:46:42 +0000 UTC]

I have, quite literally, seen that movie around 300 times. It was my first motivation to major in animation. For that I thank you.

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kra0la [2011-09-16 13:38:49 +0000 UTC]

Amazing bro. Would really love to see more of these rough animation drawings.

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PrisonerOnEarth [2011-09-16 03:22:41 +0000 UTC]

That was YOU?! Looks great, man I can't wait to see how it all turns out in 3D! Thanks for sharing these; so inspirational.

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Koofins [2011-09-15 16:40:12 +0000 UTC]

I love how amazingly expressive that cub-aged Simba is. I think I have you to thank for how I try to illustrate expression in my own art, due to watching this movie and others like Mulan again, and again, and again. The exasperation and frustration in each frame, and how drastically his expression changes....GWARH I love it. Thanks for sharing these....SO FUN!

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Silver-Solace [2011-09-15 03:51:55 +0000 UTC]

One of my favorite animation bits when I was little! lol there's just just things that stick in a kids mind visually, and this is one of mine

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beza [2011-09-15 00:04:59 +0000 UTC]

what are those head/dial/bal notes under the frame numbers? Measurements? Some animation thing?

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Elektrosmurf [2011-09-14 23:25:55 +0000 UTC]

I really do like your lines Fun to see your "old" scetches Gives even more soul to the movie

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