First Concept Art For Pixar's New Movie - "Brave"

Here is the first look at concept art for Pixar’s 13th feature-length film, Brave, which has arrived online courtesy of EW’s Inside Movies. The animated fairy tale will be Pixar’s first feature to star a female protagonist, and its first film to be co-directed by a woman.

A synopsis follows:

Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson). An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Merida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Merida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman (Julie Walters) and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Merida’s quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom’s three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin (Kevin McKidd), the surly Lord Macintosh (Craig Ferguson), and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall (Robbie Coltrane).

Brave is due in U.S. theaters June 22, 2012.

To me 'Brave' looks like a Scottish 'The Hobbit' with dashes of 'Legend and 'The Dark Crystal'... You can just imagine that vibrant mess of red hair on a Jim Henson puppet in a live-action movie!