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Frollo's Long is nose and he wears a truss/dress Disney Hunhcback of Notre Dame picture image
Frollo’s Long is nose and he wears a truss/dress Disney Hunhcback of Notre Dame

Hugo, Victor and Laverne are the agents of forced levity in Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame. They all have distinct personally and looks.

Hugo Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame picture image
Hugo Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame

Hugo is the short and fat one. He has a pig nose, thin horns that point straight up, bat-like wings, hooves for hand, rounded teeth and animal-like ears. He also for some reason is the only one of the three gargoyles to have a belly button. Hugo is the most animal looking among the three. This is he is the crudest and I think Disney thinks that he’s the funniest, in the infantile sense so he has to look somewhat amusing or people are going to believe he’s the “funny” one.

Victor Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame picture image
Victor Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame

Victor is the tallest  and largest of the three. He also the most muscular of the three. He’s the only one not to have horns, instead he has elf-like ears, large angel wings, an underbite, two fanged teeth and his hands are more like claws , almost human but a tad more beastly than human. His nose is stylized but almost human. His more human-like form is  indicative of his prissy-like, prime, introverted personality.

Victor and Laverne singing A Guy like you Disney Hunchback of Notre dame picture image
Victor and Laverne singing A Guy like you Disney Hunchback of Notre dame

Laverne is the female of the group. She has the most human-like hands. Her face looks old and she has no teeth. She has cherub wings, fatter and short horns than Hugo and there’re wider. She also have like a crown like detail that frames her horns. Her ears and nose like the most human too except her nose is a bit bulbous.  Her no nonsense, tell it like it is personality is the reason why her features look more human than Victor and Hugo. The human-look enables Laverne to be take more seriously. I mean if she looked like Hugo, I doubt people who believe her “old women who tells it like it is” persona.

Gargoyle Concept Art Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame picture image
Gargoyle Concept Art Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Gargoyles Concept Art Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame picture image
Gargoyles Concept Art Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Gargoyle Concept Art Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame picture image
Gargoyle Concept Art Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame

Looking at the concept art, the gargoyles went through a lot of revisions. But the gargoyles went through at lot of revisions as the film progress during the course of it’s animation.  It was originally convinced that these three gargoyles were the stone mason’s cast-off and they’re something of outcast which is why Quasimodo gravitated towards these three, if the imagination theory is true (which like so many other things in this movie is inconsistent in it’s execution).  The film never did played this angle. Also they were going to have tiny imperfections like a chip ear, but that was never realized either in the film.

Stains on Gargoyles Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame picture image
Stains on Gargoyles Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame

Early in the production and this can be seen on the gargoyles in their  introductory scene, the gargoyles have stains on them from the elements. The studio had maps for each gargoyle in order to keep the stains consistently placed.  Then the idea was abandoned as the film progress.  Funny it’s it, they tried so hard to be consistent on a detail that few noticed and then abandoned it but they very inconsistent with the light in the characters eyes.

Archdeacon Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame picture image
Archdeacon Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame

Next Time – The Looks of the Archdeacon

One Thought on “Let’s get Superficial “ The looks of the Gargoyles, Victor, Hugo and Laverne Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame

  1. The Unknown on 12/01/2014 at 11:33 am said:

    y do u have to be so pickey on the stains?????????????????????????????????????????????????

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