There's a wild variety of designs made for the movie, from the early heydays to the last moment of tweaks and corrections. Even so, because we had such a small crew, a lot of the sets and characters didn't even get a design sheet or sketch treatment. A vague idea and some back an forth were sometimes enough to arrive at the final elements as they appear in the movie.

Lot of work here, please pick one of the galleries:

really old bits 'n pieces character designs set designs really old bits 'n pieces

These sketches and designs give a little peek into the very early days (2004 and later) of the project. Most of them were made before and during the scriptwriting process. The style hasn't been decided upon yet, the look here is way more scruffy than it eventually turned out in the movie, and there's still some hints of scenes that were thought up but never made it in. Nevertheless, the main ideas about the world in which the whole adventure would take place was already taking definite shape.

Olaf

very early characterdesigns







very early storyboards













very early decor