Early Anya character designs for anastasia

Ever since Doug Walker did his review of The cisne Princess, I've noticed mais and mais people around the internet accuse this movie of being "Disney-lite," "a disney knock-off," etc.

Problem is, the reasons they give are either something that almost EVERY animated movie has done since Snow White (singing, princesses, animal companions, etc) OR it was already in the original fairy tale-inspired ballet written and composed por Tchaikovsky decades before disney ever got into animation.

Quick Backstory: The cisne Princess is based on the ballet link, again, written and composed por Tchaikovsky. And...

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Evera
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melon4
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Straggy
sweetie-94
SweetPea2007
TheCrystalRing

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Round 4 Winner: BelleAnastasia (4 out of 12) - Anastasia...