When you are assigned to create an animated character from scratch, the first ideas are rarely what eventually makes it to the screen. Even if you have an idea in your head from a familiar fairy tale, it might not be Disney-worthy, at least at first. When artists began working on the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast, they didn't know what kind of animal the Beast would be. The original French fairy tale doesn't say, although many people pictured a wolf. One of the concept drawings, shown here, depicts him as a mandrill, like Rafiki in The Lion King! Eventually, the Beast looked more like a bison in the finished film.
Other early drawings show us a Snow White who looked more like Betty Boop, Maleficent with insect antennae, a younger Cruella De Vil, and a jolly green Genie. See ten of these characters as you've never seen them before at Cracked.
Commenting on Neatorama will earn you NeatoPoints!