Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

2 Comments » Written on August 25th, 2009 by Kiri
Categories: Illustration, NIMH

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, and the movie based on it, The Secret of NIMH, are two of my favorite things from childhood. I’m extremely leery of the new CGI/live action movie they’re making based on the book. I personally can’t see it working on the same emotional level that the book and 2D animated movie did. There’s a certain expressiveness in the style of those Don Bluth animated films that suited it very well.
Now, if it was Pixar handling it rather than Paramount, I could easily believe they could pull it off and be true to the spirit of the original book.
Anyway, to get over my pre-emptive ill-will towards the new movie, I’m rereading the book and doing my own illustrations for it. I’m doing it in an unstructured way…just drawing whatever scenes strike me as needing to be drawn. Here’s the first:

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“With her forepaws and sharp teeth she pulled off a part of the husk from the top ear of corn and folded it double to serve as a crude carrying bag. Then she pulled loose as many of the yellow kernals as she could easily lift, and putting them in the shuck-bag she hopped off briskly for home.”

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2 Responses to “Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH”

I’ve always loved The Secret of NIMH (even though it scared the heck out of me when I was a kid), and you’ve caught Mrs. Brisby here so beautifully. I especially like the eyes.

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