FILMATION FEBRUARY - DAY: 28

"The Heart of A Giant" scene concept by Fred Carrillo

Throughout this month The Power and The Honor Foundation in conjunction with The He-Man and She-Ra Blog will be showcasing never-before-seen Filmation production artwork.

Although Fred Carrillo was a layout artist, his illustrations were unique in that they often summed up entire scenes, rather than breaking them down shot by shot. This created a feel for the episode, and gave the layout artists something beside the storyboards to look to when staging the individual shots. This piece of layout artwork by Carrillo, from the He-Man episode "The Heart of A Giant", sums up the scene in which The Keeper locates Cambro on his monitor.


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FILMATION FEBRUARY - DAY: 27

Background line art from MU020 "Dawn of Dragoon"

Throughout this month The Power and The Honor Foundation in conjunction with The He-Man and She-Ra Blog will be showcasing never-before-seen Filmation production artwork.

Here we see an intricately detailed background of Dragoon's Fortress from the He-Man episode "Dawn of Dragoon". Although Trolla was predominantly an organic planet full of strange imagery, Dragoon's Fortress bore a stark contrast to that world. One has to admire the level of detail as well as the time it probably took to illustrate this background.


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FILMATION FEBRUARY - DAY: 26

"Troll's Dream" layout artwork

Throughout this month The Power and The Honor Foundation in conjunction with The He-Man and She-Ra Blog will be showcasing never-before-seen Filmation production artwork.

This piece of layout artwork from the She-Ra episode "Troll's Dream" demonstrates how a layout artist's style would dominate an illustration. As beautiful as She-Ra's face is in this piece, the rendering is off model. Even though layout artwork was a process in-between storyboard and animation, layout supervisors and directors often ensured that even during the layout the characters should be on model to avoid mistakes made by the animators.


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FILMATION FEBRUARY - DAY: 25

"The Remedy" scene concept by Fred Carrillo

Throughout this month The Power and The Honor Foundation in conjunction with The He-Man and She-Ra Blog will be showcasing never-before-seen Filmation production artwork.

This illustration by Fred Carrillo, featuring a scene from the He-Man episode "The Remedy", highlights just how talented an artist he was. Rarely was layout artwork this detailed, as its job was simply to dictate the movement of the characters in a shot. Carrillo's level of detail throughout his illustrations remind us of his numerous artistic contributions to the Golden Book publications.


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FILMATION FEBRUARY - DAY: 24

Chopper ("The Dragon Invasion") near-final model sheet

Throughout this month The Power and The Honor Foundation in conjunction with The He-Man and She-Ra Blog will be showcasing never-before-seen Filmation production artwork.

Here is a near-finalized character model design of Jitsu, or as he was known in the He-Man episode "The Dragon Invasion", Chopper. The crisp line art seen here shows that the artist was under the impression that this was to be the illustration that would become the model sheet from which the model sheet cels were created. However, late in production the decision was made to slightly alter and reduce the size of the character's head.


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FILMATION FEBRUARY - DAY: 23

Background line art from PP034 "Troll's Dream"

Throughout this month The Power and The Honor Foundation in conjunction with The He-Man and She-Ra Blog will be showcasing never-before-seen Filmation production artwork.

Duke Drear's castle from the She-Ra episode "Troll's Dream" makes Castle Grayskull look positively welcoming. This background showcases a truly unique mix of natural bone-like structures, and the warped technology of the Evil Horde. One has to pay particular attention to the creepy skull with one eye socket!


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FILMATION FEBRUARY - DAY: 22

"Huntara" layout artwork by Lenord Robinson

Throughout this month The Power and The Honor Foundation in conjunction with The He-Man and She-Ra Blog will be showcasing never-before-seen Filmation production artwork.

Lenord Robinson utilized an incredibly bold style when it came to layout artwork. This illustration, from the She-Ra episode "Huntara", shows Huntara from the memorable sequence in which she acrobatically flips towards (and over) the camera. Normally for an episode the layout artwork would total two or three pieces per shot. Robinson illustrated a staggering twenty-eight pieces of layout artwork for this one shot to literally guide the animator as to how the character should move in the scene.


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FILMATION FEBRUARY - DAY: 21

Catra concept illustration

Throughout this month The Power and The Honor Foundation in conjunction with The He-Man and She-Ra Blog will be showcasing never-before-seen Filmation production artwork.

This illustration shows one of the numerous designs conceptualized for Catra for the She-Ra series. The character design on the left appears to match certain aspects of the action figure, which was in development at the time. The prominent illustrations feature a much looser rendition of the character, although the close-up reveals that even at the early stage the artists were trying to ensure that Catra had very angular facial features.


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FILMATION FEBRUARY - DAY: 20

Kowl concept illustration

Throughout this month The Power and The Honor Foundation in conjunction with The He-Man and She-Ra Blog will be showcasing never-before-seen Filmation production artwork.

Kowl was one of the characters that went through numerous designs for the She-Ra series. Many of the initial concepts have him as a much more rounded Disney-like know-it-all owl bestowed with a great intelligence. Interestingly Kowl's wings were not a pair of oversized ears in the design process. This was something that continued up until the eleventh hour until Charles Zembillas revised his final model by transforming Kowl's wings into his ears.


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FILMATION FEBRUARY - DAY: 19

Background line art from MU014 "Colossor Awakes"

Throughout this month The Power and The Honor Foundation in conjunction with The He-Man and She-Ra Blog will be showcasing never-before-seen Filmation production artwork.

Aside from their ability to create beautiful alien worlds, the Filmation artists also had to create heavily detailed backgrounds steeped in technology, as both Eternia and Etheria were planets upon which there was an abundance of science. This background illustration, showing the interior of the Collector from "Colossor Awakes", retains a very clean line throughout, as to ensure that no detail is lost when translated into the final painted background.


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