A beautiful color design for Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent by animator Marc Davis. You may notice that her main colors here are black and red. Marc told me that red to him represented fire, and he felt strongly that this should be her final appearance..
Art director Eyvind Earle had a slightly different color scheme in mind for this villainess. To him it was black and purple. And since Walt Disney had given Earle a lot of authority over Sleeping Beauty...purple it was.
Many of us might think that working on classic Disney animated films was all fun and games, when in fact there were artistic disagreements all the time.
