did you know Elsa from Frozen originally looked like this and feast your eyes on the horrors of Ursula's original design uh from book to screen transformations to concept art that went in all sorts of crazy directions here are characters that were meant to look completely [Music] different she's a bad witch and my humble opinion there is no greater Disney villain than Ursula the half-human half tentacled sea witch who first appeared in the 1989 film The Little Mermaid the film was based on the 1837 Story by Hans Christian Anderson where a mermaid Who falls in love
with a human trades her vo with a sea witch for a pair of legs to walk on dry land and be with her prince in the original story the sea witch only has a minor part and while grotesque was not the villain but Disney decided This Witch needed her time to shine as the Perfect story antagonist so much so that the design team took 4 years to get her designed just right now the witch's design was always going to be a blend of human and sea life with the human half on top and tail below
the bottom proved to be the tricky part the team were inspired by everything from lion fish to manta rays versions that made her too glamorous were dropped so that the contrast between her true form and Vanessa the beautiful woman she transforms into wasn't lost so designer Rob mink took inspiration from drag queen Divine star of 1972 film pink flamingos look at this Punky version by Glen Keen perhaps taking a ceue from Divine and her love for all things filthy filth are my politics filth is my life take whatever you like yes and so it was
decided that Ursula would work best as a big bombastic Diva with a larger than life personality paired with the black octopus design she was a hit truly an icon speaking of all things iconic imagine a world where you can play as five Legendary Champions straight from the pages of Alice in Wonderland sounds intriguing right well in Rage Shadow Legends you can do just that log in for 7 days to unlock Legendary Alice for free or dive into the fusion event to claim the legendary Mad Hatter that's not all take part in other in-game events to
collect even more legendary characters like the Queen of Hearts chesher cat or Nave of Hearts my favorite that sneering cat it never looked so epic and terrifying ready to play scan the QR code or click the link in the description to grab two exclusive starter packs with epics toore and Fain find me under Bartholomew's angels and join my clan now back to the video genius animators in the late ' 80s and early '90s Disney was putting out hit after animated hit and then they set their sights on the thousand one kns a collection of classic
middle eastern stories one of which was Aladdin the story of poor boy who discovers a lamp with a wish granting Jin inside Disney's 1992 retelling replaced the Jen with the hilarious Genie voiced with Manic energy by comedian Robin Williams however in Arabic mythology Jen are spirits capable of Good and Evil most depictions show them as demonic humanoids with animalistic features like fangs Claws and horns and so concept art of the genie initially followed this darker portrayal complete with animal hybrids and this good God that thing's utterly cursed that all changed when they decided to make
the genie a FASTT talking impressionist and stand up though what to convince Williams to take the role they animated the genie mannerisms out of his comedy routine but first before we do the play I'd like to talk about the very serious subject of schizophrenia no it doesn't shut up let him talk which Williams and hysterics the final design they went for was the funloving genie we know now throwing out that Insidious grin and scaling down the nose thank God no one would want their wishes granted by this guy Captain Hugh Jack Sparrow one of my
favorite films to this day is 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean the Curse of the Black Pearl it has Adventure sword fighting the undead and Johnny dead up no matter how you feel about him now as Captain Jack Sparrow he stole every scene it was like the role was made for him but it wasn't it was actually made for someone else writer and co-creator of the franchise steuart Bey wanted hu Jackman to play Captain Jack the name Jack is even a ND to the Australian actor surname Jackman Jack get it who knows what the film would
have looked like if Jackman took the role maybe we'd have a Grizzly Wolverine style Jack Sparrow Jack was originally standard pirate SCH swashbuckler but it was Depp who gave him his drunk flamboyant personality as well as dreadlocks though according to a report found by tabloid the express he had a few wackier ideas that never made it to the film like giving Captain Jack a blue nose no seriously they claimed Deb wanted Jack's nose chopped off in battle but incorrectly stitched back on leading to its decrepit appearance as well as falling off whenever he sneezed for
added comedy value that sounds pretty unbelievable and well it's considered movie trivia I couldn't find the report the express is talking about did they just make it up nevertheless Depp's whole approach to the performance was hated by producers with Disney head Michael Eisner apparently threatening to fire him however once the film was released in 2003 Captain Jack was a hit with audiences leading Pirates of the Caribbean to become one of Disney's most successful franchises [Music] sa hang on there aren't many Nickelodeon shows that game the same level of fandom as avatar The Last Airbender the
fantasy Saga started in 2005 and unfolds in a mythical world inspired by Asian culture in this universe people from different nations have the power to manipulate water Earth Fire and Air at the center is ang the Avatar who can control all of them the show's development began in 2001 when Brian canito was planning to pitch a cartoon to the network flicking through his old sketches he found a drawing of a bald arroe headed guy clad in Mecca armor accompanied by a cyclopic monkey robot called Momo 3 and an upright bear dog who would reappear as
naga in the legend of Kora sequel series from this sketch kitko originally toyed with the idea of a series set thousands of years in the future about a trio traveling through space with his pal Michael D Martino ketco continued to brainstorm and came up with the idea of a good-natured boy who shephered a family of Flying Bison manatees he would come from a peaceful past but then be brought to a war torn present but instead of sci-fi conito and de Martino decided to have Asian culture martial arts and Anime be the main influences the boys
flying beasts originally a whole herd of furry manties developed into a single Flying Bison apaa with the future elements abandoned the decision to transform Momo from a robot into an animal came about immediately after while the original cartoon is beloved I I can't help but think a Sci-Fi version would also really slap tyion my wayward son if you like Gore intricately detailed story lines and a few Sala scenes then Game of Thrones might just be your jam the seminol HBO fantasy first aired in 2011 itself based on the A Song of Ice and Fire book
series from George R Martin however fans of the books will notice how some characters don't quite match those discrep in the pages and Fan Favorite Tyrion Lannister is no exception he's originally described in the first 1996 book A Game of Thrones like this his head was too large for his body with a brute squashed in face beneath a swollen shelf of brow one green eye and one black one peered out from under a length fall of hair so blonde it seemed white then in a Clash of Kings released in 1998 tyrion's nose was sliced off
at the Battle of Blackwater Bay so with this in mind compared to the relatively handsome Peter Dinklage who portrays him in the TV series this is closer to how Tyrion should look the pilot episode did give him mismatched eyes and lank blond hair though thankfully that wig was whipped off George R Martin explained in an interview that the TV character's lack of deformities was simply down to time and money bringing in makeup and CGI piles up the budget's cost and I guess it wasn't crucial for the plot so it makes sense that they decided against
it still well imagine how badass Peter would have looked if he'd gone full Cooper Howard from Fallout there's nothing that guy can make look cool wooky mistakes now we're heading to a galaxy far far away yes I'm doing Star Wars amidst all the aliens in the film none make quite the impression like Chewbacca the big hairy wook some of you may have heard how George Lucas was inspired by his Alaskan malamut Indiana for che character design however this might be a load of poo the initial 1974 draft of the first film script described chewaka as
a huge gray bush baby with Fierce baboon like fangs and large yellow eyes sounds more like a tarer own steroids when it came to designing the 1977 film Lucas hired conceptual artist Ralph McCory who originally drew the character as a large lemur faed man with googly eyes and pointy ears a design so popular it kept reappearing ing in concept art but at some point Lucas encouraged him to go even weirder an anecdote from aari goes that Lucas handed him a bunch of sci-fi magazines for inspiration where he stumbled on a review of and seven times
never kill man written by none other than get this George R Martin it follows a group of religious zealots who try to overthrow a planet populated by hairy humanoids and boy does that hairy humanoid look familiar mcy reportedly took this illustration by John Shon her and redrew it essentially creating Chewbacca as for the bush baby Design This was later recycled for G orelus in Star Wars Rebels who even had a cameo in the Mandalorian huh so that's the Chewbacca we might have had I'm not sure which design I prefer how about you from the OG
hairy sidekick hit that like button and for the gigantic noseless swing scat over here hit subscribe all done great what's next Syria Slayer of deas in 2001 audiences were whisked away to number four privet Drive where they met a boy in the cupboard Under the Stairs Harry Potter and the philosophers sorry I got some British CAU in my throat sorcerer Stone brought JK Ring's magical world from books to the big screen but there were a few hurdles to overcome before any spells were cast originally Steven Spielberg reportedly pitched a computer animated movie with DreamWorks with
the six cent star Haley Joel Osman voicing Harry H can't say I'm too keen on the CGI idea unless DreamWorks went down the traditionally animated route instead then I'd have been totally down take a note upcoming Harry Potter TV series apparently ring and Warner Bros didn't agree with Spielberg's vision and so the director decided to pass on the project after which the books were adapted into a series of liveaction films but even at this point Harry Potter could have looked completely different think the gentle half giant Hagrid now unimaginable as anyone else but Robbie coltrin
was due to be played by Robin Williams however rling had a strict Brits and Irish only casting rule meaning the yank was quickly dismissed if you thought Snape the brooding potions Master couldn't be played by anyone except Alan Rickman tried telling that to the HP producers Tim Roth was their first choice to play Snape yep the Brit from Reservoir Dogs and lie to me but he had to pull out to work on Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake as you know the role of Snape went to Rickman Ring's first choice for the role good
old Ran always making smart choices right right let it grow in 1844 Hans Christian Anderson published The Snow Queen a simple fairy tale that follows gera's journey to rescue her friend Kay from the legendary Snow Queen then in 2013 Disney came along and made Frozen instead of Gera this movie focuses on princess Santa who embarks on a quest to find her sister the magic snow Lady Queen Elsa who's accidentally plunged their Kingdom into Eternal winter whoops while it was a Smash Hit modern retelling Disney had actually been trying to adapt the Fable as early as
1937 with projects repeatedly stalling production on Frozen as we know it started in 2008 when the Disney team tried adapting the story under the title of Anna and the Snow Queen this draft was much like Anderson's version the hero was Anna simple farm girl and the Snow Queen was the villainous albeit fabulous looking Elsa while the concepts have her looking more like a cold blue skinned version of crilla deville Anna looks practically the same how come well in this version of the story The Queen wasn't related to Anna and would kidnap Kristoff who in this
draft was just a dark-haired kid but the team hit snags with the snow queen as they struggled to make her a compelling bad guy at some point someone had the bright idea to make the character sisters who ruled over a kingdom changing the queen from a blue- skinned baddy to a more anal looking alternative the blot was changed again now the queen would have turned to the dark side after being scorned by a man causing her heart to freeze over Elsa would crash an's wedding out of Envy kidnapp her and then wage war on their
Kingdom with an army of evil snowmen Elsa has gone through a variety of looks to reflect her Wicked nature some designs depicted her as a f fatal with blue skin and some gave her a spiky Gothic style inspired by singer Amy Wine House the biggest character change came about with one inescapable song nope I can't afford to play that for give me YouTube copyright overlords please originally intended as a villain song The filmmakers Thought Let It Go made Elsa too sympathetic so they flip the character and the film on its head she became a misunderstood
hero who's terrified of hurting others well I'm glad they let that character design go a slight hiccup dragons are awesome who would want a fire breathing flying lizard as a pet in 2010 I got to live out my childhood fantasy of owning one when I watched How to Train Your Dragon set on the aisle of Burke Vikings and Dragons war against each other hiccup is a sply young lad who befriends the large cuddly cat leg dragon with retractable fangs he calls toothless bringing Harmony to the island a these movies are based on the book series
by Cita cowl and when I say based I mean Loosely based very Loosely brought to life by cow's scratchy illustrations the Books open on Burke where Vikings are ready keep dragons as companions dragons are intelligent creatures capable of speech communicating in their own language of dragones and the heroic hiccup is mostly the same weedy but intelligent boy except for the red hair it's toothless who has gone through the biggest change in cow's books he's a tiny dragon far too small to ride and he's anything but cuddly he's sarcastic selfish and has no teeth at all
concept art for the filmm shows a Hiccup and Toothless design much closer to cow's Vision before the team decided to age up the characters mature the themes and and epic ay the story the main Duo aren't the only ones transformed by Dreamworks hiccup's smoochi love interest astred is the movie's counterpart to kamakazi a girl from an all Female warrior tribe and one of the book's few female characters still wish she kept her name and hair for the film adaptation [Music] Lil Wayne which superhero is the Knight is the scourge of the Gotham underworld and can
materialize exclamations whenever he punches someone Batman in the late 1930s comic writers Bill finger and Bob Kane wanted to create a superhero who could be the complete opposite of the idealistic near perfect Superman and his timid Alter Ego Clark Kent together finger and King created a cape Crusader so iconic that he has dominated Print TV and film since his debut in Detective Comics Number 27 in 1939 the idea of a Batman came to Kane after seeing the villain in the 1926 silent mystery the bat jeez Kane told finger about his superhero concept and showed him
a sketchy done of this character and so the original man was much more Superman esque with a bright red suit Domino mask blonde hair and wasn't going to be scaring anyone after finding a bad illustration in Webster's Dictionary the pair eventually came up with a Batman design that looked more like a bat they gave him a horned cow that looked like large sharp ears a dark suit and pupiless eyes to really give this strange new hero a mysterious quality practical things like gloves so that he didn't leave fingerprints and foldable wings were added in later
issues Batman followed in the same vein as the violent hardboiled Pulp Comics like the shadow spider and black mask anyway that's enough about Batman on to the next character Robin Hood Robin Hood is one of those Legends whose story has been told countless times we all have our favorite Robins but the most unique has to be Disney's Robin Hood released in 1973 this Robin is just as heroic as any other except he's as you can see a five the film's world is populated by anthropomorphic animals which seems pretty smart to entice children to watch but
it was actually a choice rooted in the film's troubled production history you see since 1937 Walt Disney had actually been scrambling to adapt the stories of rard the fox a trickster figure for medieval folklore who cheats lies and straight up murders to get his own way so the opposite of the hero we know early Disney Concepts portrayed the character as the cunning Rogue found in F GL but W found that he could never bring himself to give the unscrupulous reard a leading role in his own picture so in 1960 Disney tried to make a musical
adaptation of the 1910 play Shanta Clair by Edmund roson in this version the plot revolved around Shanta Clair a proud heroic rooster rard would be a corrupt villain vying to become mayor as well as a womanizing or pizinger Minal and Thug fearful that audiences wouldn't get behind a chicken hero the team never got past the planning stage and the project was thrown out Disney found it near impossible to give the scoundrel rard a cuddly makeover without changing the story completely so that's what they did the vicious crook rard became the Beloved Outlaw Robin the rooster
became Alan andelle a film's iconic whistling minstral and the concept of an animal world was translated into the Fantastical Nottingham goalie what a [Music] day give him a ring of all the characters and Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films Gollum or smeagle to his friends kind of stands out he was once a hobbit like the kind of Elijah Wood plays as Frodo who was poisoned and manipulated by the incredibly powerful one ring the creature he became was masterfully played by Andy Circus now in early editions of the 1937 book The Hobbit writer JRR
tolken never went into huge detail about the creature's appearance or even his size when artists came to illustrating this resulted in all sorts of interpretations in 1962 finished author and illustrator torve yarson most famous for creating the mman books Drew Gollum as this terrifying giant crowned in a Garland of leaves a guest at janson's illustration toen decided to retroactively clarify the character's appearance and in the hobbit's second edition described Gollum as a small slimy creature however within the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit descriptions of Gollum contradict each other with some passages described ring
as black and dark While others depict him as pale and even frog likee to address this inconsistency tolken eventually provided a note to illustrators clarifying that Gollum was pale skinned but wore dark clothes and was always seen in poor light when film adaptations came along Movie Makers decided to put their own spins on the character take this bioluminescent creature and animator Jean D's 1966 short adaptation of The Hobbit what horrid little nasty has come to steal our ring my precious sure later in 1977 and 1980 the designers on the rank and bass Hobbit and The
Lord of the Rings films hopped on the amphibious description and turned Gollum into a mutated tonee in 2001 Jackson opted for pasty skin and bulging eyes but skimped out on the clothes though at least they covered gollum's lower half with a loin cloth and you know didn't make him a literal toad Predator problems stick around because we're talking about one of the greatest action movies ever made Predator the 1987 film follows Arnold Schwarzenegger and his Beefcake buddies as they're hunted down by an other world Leo a colossal dreadlock Tusk nashing outer space psychopath but if
you followed the format of this video you've probably guessed that this awesome design wasn't how the character was supposed to look when shooting started the the creature was a wiry reptile with a crusty exoskeleton backward bent legs and insectoid head its movements were supposed to be athletic and agile skulling Through the Jungle like a ninja action star jeanclaude vanam was originally cast to play the horrific part thanks to his martial arts expertise before taking on the roll vanam was told the makeup would be minimal then they put him in this and he hated it the
costume was so restrictive that he could hardly walk let alone show off his trademark kicks and flicks to make matters worse for the actor the Predator uses a cloaking device to make itself invisible for more than half the film as you can see from this hilarious footage of the predator in an orange suit which would be digitally blurred later oh God it looks like a different kind of Predator if you uh get my drift eventually the insect design was scrapped and the muscles from Brussels hustled back to Brussels the crew needed a replacement monster and
they needed one fast Schwarzenegger recommended his friend Stan w who he worked with on the Terminator in just 6 weeks Winston and his team crafted this iconic looking Beast complete with praying mantis mandibles which were actually a suggestion put forward by director James Cameron to play the alien they hired Kevin Peter Hall who measured over 7 ft tall and made Schwarzenegger look Stumpy and with that the ultimate Predator was born thank God they went with that and not the orange monstrosity consider me van damn glad about it all right all right which character design surprised
you the most and do you prefer the final version or the concept art let me know down in the comments below and thanks for watching [Music]
