Development
The original character design of Aurora was done by Tom Oreb, who modeled the princess after the elegant, slender features of actress Audrey Hepburn. Aurora's lead animator, Marc Davis, who previously animated Cinderella, working with sketches by Oreb, finished the appearance and clothing of the heroine, so that they would blend with the angular forms of the background images. In "Sleeping Beauty", he also animated the wicked Maleficent.
As done with other Disney films, Walt Disney hired an actress to perform live-action scenes as a reference for the animation process. Actress Helene Stanley performed the live-action reference for Princess Aurora. She did the same kind of work for the characters of Anita in One Hundred and One Dalmatians and Cinderella.
According to Christopher Finch, author of The Art of Walt Disney:
| “ | Disney insisted that all scenes involving human characters should be shot first in live-action to determine that they would work before the expensive business of animation was permitted to start. The animators did not like this way of working, feeling it detracted from their ability to create character. understood the necessity for this approach and in retrospect acknowledged that Disney had handled things with considerable subtlety. | ” |
Costume design for the Aurora engaged Alice Davis, which was the wife of animator Marc Davis (until his death in 2000). This was the first work in the studio Alice Disney, during which she became the wife of Mark Davis (1956).
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