A Christmas Carol

A few years ago I had some ideas for what I thought would've been a pretty cool animated version of "A Christmas Carol."  I even did some sketches for it, then a week or two later I saw the trailer for Robert Zemeckis' mocap version and that was pretty much the end of that.  His take on it wasn't that much like mine but it was close enough, it was mocap, that alone is too close to animation.  These aren't the original sketches I did for it, I still have them somewhere but I drew these last night after having watched "Muppets Christmas Carol" and "Scrooged" over the last couple weeks and getting kinda inspired.  Here's Scrooge and the Cratchets:

I really like Bob Cratchet here but I think Tiny Tim could use some work.  I like Scrooge too but I could push him a lot further, he's not miserly enough for my liking.  Here's Jacob Marley:

I like where I'm heading with Jacob here...going for more of a zombie idea, but again I think I could push it more...could do something more creative with the chains too.  One idea I had when I was first starting that actually was in Zemeckis' version was Marley's jaw dropping from his face when he takes the bandage off, they played it more for laughs though where as I was thinking it'd be more creepy, maybe funny too, but in a more sick and twisted sort of way.  And of course the real stars are the ghosts of past, present and future:

I really like all three of these drawings actually, but if I was ever going to actually pursue this I'd probably experiment a lot more...in animation it's sort of a waste to keep characters like these too grounded in reality, these could all conceivably be played by actors and where's the fun in that.  I doubt I ever would've really had the chance to pursue my version of A Christmas Carol anyway, it was just something fun to think about.  I did like Robert Zemeckis movie though...