The One that Started it All: Designing Disney’s First Princess

I thought it would be fitting to make my first ever article on Disney’s first feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. There are plenty of interesting stories about Snow White’s production, you could write a whole book if you wanted to, and plenty of people have. In this particular article, I’m going to focus on one of my favourite aspects of Disney films, the princesses. You see, Snow White didn’t always look like the princess we’ve known and loved since 1937. Early on she looked pretty unrecognizable…

So how did she evolve from these sketches into the beautiful princess in the final film? Well that story is one filled with drastic changes in appearance that were influenced by the range of talented animators, artists, and models that contributed to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.