Sleeping Beauty (1959)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Sleeping Beauty (1959) 
original production animation drawing
red and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 8.5" x 4.5"

This superb rough animation drawing of Maleficent and her familiar, the raven, was created by a Disney animator in development of a scene in Walt Disney's Technirama animated feature. It is an animator's extreme drawing with two grids at lower right. Marc Davis, one of Walt Disney's master animators known as his Nine Old Men, supervised the animation of this scene in King Stefan's castle at the gathering of "royalty, nobility, the gentry, and...even the rabble." After Merryweather blurts out that Maleficent's presence was not wanted, the evil fairy feints taking her leave. The Queen asks "And you're not offended, your Excellency?" to which Maleficent replies: "Why no, your Majesty." The animator wrote the designation "33" at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene.