Animation art

The promotional poster sketch

Two items of pre-production art for a SilverHawks promotional poster, catalogued to Rankin/Bass, 1986.

Made
1986
Sold by
Heritage Auctions
Sale date
Lot record
On the auction site

The other piece of SilverHawks production material in the Heritage archive is not from an episode at all. It is sketch work for a promotional poster, sold as a lot of two items and catalogued to Rankin/Bass in 1986.

Promotional art sits in an awkward place for a collector. It was made to sell the show rather than to be the show, so it never went under a camera and never became a frame anybody watched. What it does carry is a stage of the design that the finished series does not: somebody working out how the five of them stand together before that arrangement got fixed.

Heritage file it under production cels, which is a shelving decision rather than a description. The lot is sketch material.

Sources: the Heritage Auctions lot record, linked above.

What it sold for

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