Daughter of the Sun

(2002)

My final version of Princess Nina from an early version of "The Emperor's New Groove" called "Kingdom of the Sun". I found her name in the original note sheets of "The Emperor's New Groove": "One Day She'll Love Me" is sung by Pacha (in his early design he looks exactly like Kuzco - you know, "Kingdom of the Sun" was some kind of "Prince and the Pauper"-story) in duet with Nina. I knew that there was a princess in the original story of TENG (well, can you imagine a classic Disney feature without a princess?!? *g*) and that they erased her character as it became clear that TENG was going to be a comedy and not a serious film. Well, I know that I already invented my own TENG-princess (yes, and she's here! ^.~), but I always wondered how this original princess called Nina looked like. And here is my proposal for this character!