Maleficient

Dan May was drafted in by Production Designers Gary Freeman and Dylan Cole to help create the castle featured in Disney’s Maleficent. The film is an unusual adaptation of Disney’s 1959 animatic classic Sleeping Beauty, portraying the story from the perspective of Diaval, the villain. Dan helped with the design and modelling of the castle’s overall layout, and in the visualisation of several interior and exterior sets including the scene where Davial flies to Aurora’s rescue. He also 3D boarded ideas for the final scenes of the film feeding into both the Previs and VFX pipelines.