Disney Used The Same Illustrations For Different Characters And You Might Not Have Realized It Before
Well, the truth always hurts.
Do you think illustrators always come up with new ideas? We like to think so, but the truth is that sometimes they revisit their old ones and adapt them to fit the new illustrations they want to create.
Sure, this may crush some of our hopes and dreams and perhaps deflate us a bit, but nobody ever thought that Disney, a world-renowned company, would ever reuse their old illustrations.
Some of you might be angry about this, while others might completely understand, because just imagine how challenging it can be to come up with entirely new illustrations every single time they want to release a new Disney movie.
The world of art is tough, but we have compiled five of the most obvious instances where Disney reused their old illustrations for new characters, and we hope you don't feel cheated.
1. Snow White and Robin Hood
Snow White has always been a great classic movie, and now we know why. Disney employed 570 artists who drew over 1 million pictures over a three-year period. That's a lot of people and a lot of time to let go to waste! That is why they used the same illustrations 36 years later for Robin Hood.
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They didn't just take illustrations from Snow White to create Robin Hood; they also used illustrations from The Jungle Book, which came out six years earlier. That is why Robin Hood is known as the lowest-budget Disney movie.
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The scene of Mowgli and the two wolf cubs is actually a remake of Arthur and the two dogs in The Sword in the Stone.
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4. The Jungle Book and Winnie the Pooh
As you can see in the picture below, it is quite obvious that they took a scene from The Jungle Book and inserted it into Winnie the Pooh.
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5. Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast
Nobody knew that the most important and iconic scene in Beauty and the Beast is actually a remake of a scene from Sleeping Beauty. At least they drastically improved the animation quality over the years.
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