Bruno Rime, Cynder's character designer and art lead of the project in Krome Studios, determined that this villain be female and a black dragon, as the previous dragon villain in the earlier Spyro titles ( Red) was generally red coloured.įor both Bruno Rime and Jared Pullen, another artist who worked on A New Beginning, from the get go presence was paramount, and the black dragon Maleficent from the Disney movie Sleeping Beauty had that in spades. The story for the first installment of the trilogy, A New Beginning, called for 'a powerful and shadowy dark dragon' to be Spyro's nemesis, beyond that no specification was given and the starting point was very loose. However, they also felt as if she had been a part of the Spyro mythology for quite some time.
5.1 The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning.
