Cinderella Dashing downstairs from her lonely attic room, Cinderella excitedly shows off her pretty party dress — lovingly sewed and stitched together by the loyal mice Jaq and Gus and Cinderella’s other animal friends, while the mistreated scullery maid’s cruel Stepmother Lady Tremaine looks aghast. “I felt that for the story to work, the Stepmother had to be as realistic as Cinderella herself,” said directing animator Frank Thomas. “She couldn’t be as cartoony or buffoonish as the Stepsisters. I had to find ways to draw her not realistically but as convincingly as Cinderella was drawn. With animators like Marc Davis and Eric Larson working on Cinderella, it was a tough standard to try and come up to.” These exquisitely crafted sculptures (Cinderella is plussed with pewter legs) capture all the beauty and hope — and heartless menace — of Walt Disney’s animated masterpiece.
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