VIGNALI STUDIO

Muppet Studios: The Lost Legacy with Imagineer Marcelo Vignali Explore the forgotten magic of Muppet Studios Land at Walt Disney World with the documentary, "Muppet Studios: The Lost Legacy." ...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2023/11/muppet-studios-lost-legacy-w-imagineer.html

 A question I received on this drawing was the size, this is a four foot long drawing.  There are several other sneaky things I did to create image, one of which is a 3 point horizontal per...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2023/09/virtual-reality-before-virtual-reality.html

ToonTown was a really special project for me because I was able to participate at multiple levels all the way through the process. Typically, someone will be asked to come on board a project, and...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-reason-why-toontown-was-so-special.html

I'm gonna roll the clock back to when I was the lead designer for Disneyland's Roger Rabbit Car-Toon Spin Ride in 1990/92. The goal was to end the ride with our guests going through a cartoon por...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-portable-hole-at-disneyland.html

MORE LOST DISNEY ART. (Brush Pen Ink and Watercolor 1994) I know... the title is a little "click-baity". Technically this work is not lost -- I'm sure the originals are buried somewhere in the v...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-lost-disney-art-part-2.html

 Did you know that part of the Roger Rabbit Ride queue line and pre show at Disneyland was going to be outdoors? Yep! It was the 1990s, and I was one of the four principal designers of Disneylan...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-lost-art-of-disneylands-toontown.html

In 1990 I was working at Walt Disney Imagineering as a show designer, and I had the unique opportunity to work on the Muppet Movie Ride with Jim Henson. When Jim passed away suddenly, the entire...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-great-muppet-movie-ride-that-never.html

When working in animation, hands are some of the trickiest things to get right. In part because they have to look great, and they have to move. It doesn't matter if it's 2D, or CG animation, gett...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2023/04/hands-on.html

I've just added another "INTO THE DESIGN LAB", on one of my favorite illustrators, N.C. Wyeth. Newell Convers Wyeth, also known as N. C. Wyeth — Born in 1882 –  died in 1945 at the age...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2023/04/into-design-lab-nc-wyeth.html

 I'll never forget the first time I saw HEINRICH KLEY'S ARTWORK, the exhilaration I felt was like life itself was being decoded before my eyes. I bought his books and poured over them; copyin...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-art-of-heinrich-kley.html

I've put together a series called Into the Design Lab, it's an artist retrospective, an analysis and a design dissection that reveals the compositional tricks and storytelling tips by successful...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2023/03/into-design-lab-frank-frazetta-1-thru-5.html

Great artists throughout the ages have left their art lessons encoded in their works. In this series I deconstruct the artwork to find the compositional, story, and structural devices... as well ...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2023/03/into-design-lab-with-marcelo-vignali.html

The power in each of these portraits speaks volumes to us. We wander around these images with our eyes, picking up on subtle hints in the anatomy, decoding each nuance of expression: a raised bro...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-visual-language-of-portraiture.html

I'm opening up the Vignali Vault once more. I don't think this image has ever been printed in any book or posted on anything since I drew this 20 years ago for Disney's Kingdom of the Sun. ...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2017/05/when-to-choose-graphite-or-wax-pencil.html

With so much digital work in animation today, it’s important to keep in mind that “design" should be the driving and motivating factor of design. While it’s a lot easier to create digital...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-power-of-pencil.html

Here are a series of visual development paintings I did for Hotel Transylvania 2. Although I'm not listed in the credits, I did do some work for HT2 in the early development stages. In this ass...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2016/09/hotel-transylvania-2-artwork.html

I just posted an article on my Art Page to answer the question, "Why use stylization in animation?" This is a follow up to the Tumblr article I posted a few days earlier.

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2016/08/why-use-stylization-in-animation.html

I've just uploaded my latest video on my Youtube Channel on The Postcard Game.  The postcard game is game where you trade artwork with your artist friends. Look at this gorgeous watercol...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2016/08/ive-just-uploaded-my-latest-video-on-my.html

In this five-minute sketch, I'm showing the simplified building-block structure that I use to balance my figure. Using this building-block structure, it's easy to balance the figure. You simp...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2016/07/stacey-barbarian.html

Come check out my latest How-To video on Overcoming Obstacles , and dealing with adversity. What to do when things go wrong...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2016/07/mobile-studio-video-overcoming-obstacles.html

Have you ever felt like you're tied to someone else's drama? It's a shame, I tried to record this drawing, but somehow the file was corrupted and I lost the recording.

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2016/05/drama-queen.html

Have you ever noticed that the bees aren't the only ones looking forward to all the flowers in Spring?

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2016/04/spring-is-in-air.html

Here's a seven minute figure drawing sketch from last night, drawn while using my Fractal Method. Athletes to the gym and train, they build muscles they need and use when performing their act...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2016/04/figure-drawing-is-our-gym.html

Yes, we're at that phase in kittenhood when our little Misty Lou needs to sharpen her claws, literally at our expense. I snapped this picture of our kitty when I caught her in the act. BAD ...

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2016/02/no-misty-lou.html

It's Windy

http://vignalistudio.blogspot.com/2016/01/its-windy.html