'The Lion King' Initial Character Designs- Scar

Various designs by Disney while creating 'The Lion King' for the character Scar.

I found these through google and a few websites proved fruitful:
www.lionking.org
www.tlkpridebackup.webs.com
www.mylionking.com


Audio: 'Be Prepared' from The Lion King soundtrack

And the drawings are owned by Disney. I didn't create them.

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[LilMissFiction]

His first few designs made him look alot angrier and agressive not to mention bigger and bulky... However I think the way he is in his final design is way more threatening in a perfect way that makes him sly, cunning and malicious. Despite the fact he's much scrawnier than Mufasa or Simba (adult) he's still a threatening, evil and memorable villain, yet somehow his charming, sly ways make him a likeable villain too. He's also my favourite Disney villain :D

[GreedGirl892]

you can see elements that they passed on to Nuka in some of the first ones...like the mohawk-mane

[wolfmyth007]

haha, some of them make it look like Scar is stuck in the 80s

[chillerific89]

Boy am I glad they didn't went with the first designs. I like Scar's final design; slender, malicious,.scheming his next plan rather then to rely on brute force.

[mazeido1]

at 0:49 he looks a lot like Shere Khan - except for being a lion of course

[Xenochan]

0:59- @1:07 is pretty interesting, but similar to his final design. I like ;D

[paigered8]

It's interesting to think that Scar would have had some light color in his mane; that was a pretty neat concept :0

[profmalicious]

@LilMissFiction And of course, if he was big and able to match Mufasa blow for blow, he wouldn't have to depend more on his wits and become a schemer.

[GalacticSpaceVixen]

You can see how his design sort of shifted over time into what he is today.