well, I'm sure I can't tell you much new about Hercules.... there were storyboards everywhere for this movie, and lots of layout drawings.

We saw the Zero to Hero bit in one of the videos while it was still not completed, no colour. The production art for Hercules was extremely interesting. You can really see the Greek influence in the designs. There were sheets up showing the animators and cleanup artists what types of line to use to give the characters a Greek feel that went beyond the typical model-sheet. There were also pictures of Greek things, like columns, pots and statues to provide inspiration. Hera is based on an Ionic column (a tall, thin, fluted column with a decorated top)Megs hair at the ends always forms little a little curly cue design often depicted on Greek pots etc...

Character Voices

• Tate Donovan (Hercules)
  
• Susan Egan (Megara)
  
• James Woods (Hades)
  
• Danny De Vito (Phil)
  
• Bobcat Goldthwait (Pain)
  
• Matt Frewer (Panic)
  
• Rip Torn (Zeus)
  
• Paul Shaffer (Hermes)
  
• Charlton Heston (Narrator)
  
• The Muses (Lillas White, Cheryl Freeman, LaChanze, Roz Ryan, and Vaneese Thomas )
  Directed by: : Ron Clements and John Musker

  Produced by: Ron Clements, Alice Dewey, Kendra Haaland, John Musker

  Story by: Barry Johnson

  Screenplay by: Ron Clements, Don McEnery, Irene Mecchi, John Musker, Bob Shaw

  Music by:

  Original Score Composed and Conducted by:

  Animator Credits:

  Andreas Deja (Hercules)
  Supervising Animator
  -Beauty and the Beast (Gaston)

  Randy R. Haycock (Young Herc)

  Ken Duncan(Megara)

  Nick Ranieri(Hades)

  Eric Goldberg(Phil)

  Brian Ferguson(Panic)

  James Lopez(Panic)

  here are some examples of the type of artwork we saw there

  

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