Check out art from the LucasfilmWillowcartoon that never was

Despite boasting memorable scenes of Val Kilmer go bad barbarian and the most phallic dragon in moving picture monster chronicle , Ron Howard and George Lucas ’ 1988 fancy film Willow did n’t tear up the box business office .

That in all probability explicate why this Willow animated series never got off the dry land . Here ’s a rich sampling of rare sketches and character reference designs from that abandon projection . In an alternative world , Madmartigan was trouncing around all over Saturday morning cartoon .

This conception fine art comes to us from Cleveland , Ohio collector Joe Frese , who purchased this art in 2006 from a series of on-line vendue . These pieces do n’t specify the creative person or studio behind the illustrations , but the accompanying certificates of authenticity fromHoward Lowerystate :

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These [ … ] drawings of fibre from the movie Willow ( 1988 ) were created by an artist during development of an liven series based on the film that was not complete .

Joe suspect that it could ’ve been through the animators at Nelvana — who worked on the Droids and Ewoks animated cartoon — but he ’s not positivistic . As you could see in the fictitious character sketch , we have animated variation of Willow , Madmartigan , Sorsha , the Brownies , and an onetime Elora Danan . There are also raw villains and a tartar that does not havea penile headmodeled onClint Howard ’s face .

A Brobdingnagian give thanks you to Joe for share this construct art with us . If anybody recognizes the artist ’s ( or artists ’ ) work or cognise precisely how and why this project was skitter , feel free to drop us a line .

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