Talk:Chernabog/@comment-45047875-20200214022633

I started a Chernabog discussion on this, too, but it certainly bears mentioning here so I'm pasting my text:

Chernabog was also Animated by Women !

Marcia James and Mildred Rossi were among the very first women to start working in the Disney Animation department. Most of their new jobs there consisted of creating the character movements that were photographed in between the lead animators' key-frame images (since film runs at 24 frames a second, there are a lot of in-between frames even in short segments.) For the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence of "Fantasia," however, Disney's usual approach wouldn't work. Lead animators typically made line drawings and then sent them over to the lower-level ladies of the Ink and Paint department for final outlines and color fills. Chernabog's dark magic was realized through a somewhat groundbreaking technique of animating without outlines; each individual element of the demon (and all the ghosts, and all the licks of those flames) was a painting in color alone. Because James and Rossi had thoroughly proven their color abilities while at the Ink and Paint department, they were entrusted with making Walt's innovative, semi-transparent "Pastel Effect" idea a concrete animation reality. We're still marveling at their success more than 75 years later.

If that weren't enough: you might actually already know something about Mildred Rossi's legacy. After Disney, she changed her name to Milicent Patrick and started working as a designer in the make-up department at Universal Pictures...

While at Universal, she not only created the bulbously-brained and clawed look of the Metaluna Mutant from "This Island Earth..."

she also designed the Creature from the Black Lagoon!