As part of our Concept Art Practice module we had a visit from Shelly Page from Dreamworks who gave us a brief to work on. She gave us a list of different characters to choose from and our job was to pick on and redesign that character in a different time period or setting. I chose Beauty and the Beast.
I looked a lot online for visual references but kept going back to Disney's version of the story for a lot of my reference.
I did try to think of a clever and different way to tell the story but failed. I was struggling to come up with ideas because I was missing the point of the story and was looking for an ugly character and a beautiful character rather than a beautiful person trapped in an ugly persons body. I was looking at examples like Shrek and Fiona (when she was human) and Quasimodo and Esmerelda. After having this pointed out to me I realised I had too many ideas or references and needed to narrow my searches.
That is why I settled on the Disney version as my main reference.
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