Nala's Eyes in TLK

[Akril]

Something I haven't seen mentioned before is that Simba's eye color changes during TLK as well. Most of the time they're red, but during IJCWTBK and the stampede, they turn pale orange.*

And back to Nala, her eyes are definitely much brighter green than normal in this scene, but I suspect that might be because of all the yellow hues surrounding her. It might even be a bit of artistic license on the artists' part to make her stand out even more.

I actually tried an experiment just to see whether what that "About Nala's eye color" website was proposing was legit: I opened a screengrab of Nala from one of the night scenes and one of her at the end of TLK (which is the only time we see adult Nala in full daylight) in Paint Shop Pro 7. Then I selected her pelt color from the end-of-TLK scene and adjusted the RGB values of the night scene until the pelt color in that picture was the same as the pelt color in the end-of-TLK picture. Basically, I was adjusting the colors in the night scene so that Nala would have the same colors she had in full daylight.

When I was done, the Nala in the night scene had green eyes. They certainly weren't the emerald green that they are when she is about to pounce on Pumbaa, but they weren't blue. Sea green, perhaps, but definitely not pure blue. Anyone who has Photoshop or its equivalent can try this as well.

I've seen a few people claiming that JPEG distortion made her eyes appear to be a different color. It'd be nice if someone with a very high-res monitor took a large screenshot of Nala and converted it to a PNG so the true color of her eyes wouldn't be marred by the corruptness of JPEG conversion.

Anyway, just about every official pre-SP plushie, comic, storybook, action figure, clip art, towel, sculpture, lithograph and finger puppet of Nala depicts her with green eyes, and even a good chunk of SP merchandise shows her with green eyes. Even in a storybook where her eyes are blue, the artist gives her green eyes in one picture. Because of all this, I'm inclined to think that she has green eyes. Call me crazy, but that's just the way I feel.

Still, I don't know what the artists were thinking when they not only gave Nala azure eyes, but had other characters' eyes change from blue to red and vice-versa during particularly dark scenes. Lighting does not work that way!**

And in closing, here's a little comic I did inspired by this topic (a lot of what I said here is repeated, but eh.)




*And come to think of it, Simba's eyes are more orange than red in SP...hmm...

**Zira's eyes turn blue at times during "My Lullaby" and Simba's turn blue during his nightmare.

[Nadra]

[quote="Akril"]
And back to Nala, her eyes are definitely much brighter green than normal in this scene, but I suspect that might be because of all the yellow hues surrounding her. It might even be a bit of artistic license on the artists' part to make her stand out even more.
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Well, Nala doesn't even have the nose bridge color in that picture... She looks a bit strange to me.

But anyway, I think her eyes changed colour as she grew older. They were green at the end of TLK and blue in SP. One of the reasons I believe the cub at the end of TLK wasn't Kiara...

[SilverSimba01]

Nala's eyes always change colors, maybe they try to colored depending on how dark or light is the place

[CommandoTheLion]

Hmmm yeah is it when its dark her eyes are blue and when it light her eyes are green?

[Simba93]

I think so too.
It's light how changed the colors.

[Wereberess]

I've already proved those links wrong in my family tree.

Nala's daytime colors are never shown.
http://www.mylionking.com/resources/sit ... ab_577.jpg
Nala's eys are obviously green here, but thaat's only because this is the desert which has the same lighting as the outlands.

http://www.mylionking.com/resources/sit ... ab_849.jpg
Nala's eyes are green here but that's only because it's in the morning where the sun is i\the brightest.


And how could you guys say the jungles lighting affect Nala's eye color when here they're green.http://www.mylionking.com/resources/sit ... ab_718.jpg

But here, still in the jungle, they're blue?http://www.mylionking.com/resources/site_images/lk_screengrab_619.jpg

I think there is no real answer to what Nala's eye color is but i will always believe that they are blue so she won't be a sarafina clone.

[Akril]

[quote]Nala's daytime colors are never shown. [...]
http://www.mylionking.com/resources/sit ... ab_849.jpg
Nala's eyes are green here but that's only because it's in the morning where the sun is i\the brightest.[/quote]
If you don't think that that screenshot displays the characters' daytime colors, what screenshot would you consider to be a good example of characters' daytime colors? I'd think a scene where the sun is the brightest would be an ideal one by which to gauge characters' colors.

[quote]And how could you guys say the jungles lighting affect Nala's eye color when here they're green. http://www.mylionking.com/resources/sit ... ab_718.jpg

But here, still in the jungle, they're blue? http://www.mylionking.com/resources/sit ... ab_619.jpg[/quote]
The first screenshot seems to take place around dawn and the second scene seems to takes place in the late afternoon or early evening. The lighting, contrast, saturation and even the weather are completely different in those two scenes, and comparing the two is like comparing apples and oranges.

I think that with the late afternoon/evening/night scenes in the jungle, the artists weren't just darkening the characters' colors, but decreasing their red and green values and/or increasing their blue values as well, probably trying to imitate how light behaves during that time of day in the real world. Not surprisingly, pale jade green eyes would start appearing blue a lot more readily than the other much darker reds, browns, golds and and tans present in the characters' designs.

[rich198]

well its intresting how the creators can work with light so well

[QueenRalexia]

Its interesting how her eyes change through the movies

[PhyscoSimba]

I didn't actually know that her "changing" eye colour was deliberate. I always thought that it was a mistake. Then again, the lighting thing does kind of make sense.

Disney really messed up in the second film though.