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20. Simba

Added 2023-06-26 17:19:21 +0000 UTC

A character that needs no introduction, Simba is the main character of The Lion King who is destined to rule over the Pride Lands as King.

For the model pose I've decided to make the scene where he sticks his head through the leaves and gets a leaf mane like in the bottom left, Its probably my favourite scene from the whole movie and I think the pose is really iconic of Simba. I'm really excited to make a start on this one, it'll be a lot of fun to model and he's gonna look awesome among the other characters!

Modeling wise, his head will be the hardest part by a clear mile since I'm gonna want to get it perfect! but once I'm over that little hurdle it should be fairly straightforward. I'll be working on it for most of today, so the WIP post will be out tomorrow for a first look at the model. Character Trivia is below, as always thanks for subscribing!

"Simba" in Swahili means "lion", so he is named after his own species.
All of Simba and Nala's cubs names begin with "K" (Kopa, Kiara, Kion).
In some concepts, Simba is shown with blue eyes.
When the animators were drawing adult Simba, they wanted a little twist for his appearance and personality to be like his voice actor Matthew Broderick.
Simba's adult mane was supposedly inspired by Jon Bon Jovi's hair.
In one episode of Home Improvement, Randy (played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas) says that he always expected his father to be called a king by everyone while playing with a lion cub doll who resembles Simba. Thomas was the voice of young Simba in The Lion King.
Macaulay Culkin, Brock Pierce and Elijah Wood were once considered to voice young Simba.
In one version of the script Simba actually loses the fight to Scar, who instead throws Simba from Pride Rock by his mane. Scar is engulfed by flames but Simba lands on a tree and lives.
Simba has trouble speaking in other animal languages, especially elephant.
According to Timon in The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar, Simba repeatedly got his claws stuck in logs as a cub.
If you look closely at Simba as a cub, he was sometimes seen with whiskers, and sometimes without.
In the original animated film, Simba's adolescent form is only seen during the timeskip scene. He is given a larger role in The Lion King 1½.
Simba is the first animated Disney character to have a villain as a biological relative, followed by Hercules and later Anna and Elsa in Frozen II.