RECENTLY-- TINKERBELL AND THE SECRET OF THE WINGS.

This direct to dvd movie takes place in a winter wonderland world, so the challenge was to design a variety of set locations made with snow and ice. This following image of frozen waterfall terraces is currently being used in Disney's advance promotion on the internet, so I thought we'd take a look at how the background was designed.
First--the final image as it appears on the internet.



To create this image, we first submitted several rough sketches to establish a general range of possible ideas.









Then once the art director narrowed things down, I submitted two painted ideas.




Then after more discussion, I did these final versions and the job was done.



Here is a closeup detail area.