I recently came across some very early sketches of Claudette and the gang. I pictured them more as street urchins. This was way before we’d figured out the story.
Claudette was called Penelope, and Gaston was Henry.
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I love how much personality they all had, right from the start!
I agree. When Raf showed me the drawings, it was easy to start riffing off them from the get go. Especially Claudette