 Disney became concerned that such a comical approach would lessen the plausibility of the characters and , sensing that more time was needed for the development of the Queen , advised in an outline circulated on November 6 that attention be paid exclusively to " scenes in which only Snow White , the Dwarfs , and their bird and animal friends appear " . The names and personalities of the dwarfs , however , were still " open to change " . A meeting of November 16 resulted in another outline entitled ' Dwarfs Discover Snowwhite ' , which introduced the character of Dopey , who would ultimately prove to be the most successful and popular of the dwarf characterisations . For the rest of 1934 Disney further developed the story by himself , finding a dilemma in the characterization of the Queen , who he felt could no longer be " fat " and " batty " , but a " stately beautiful type " , a possibility already brought up in previous story meetings . Disney did not focus on the project again until the autumn of 1935 . It is thought that he may have doubted his , and his studio 's ability , and that his trip to Europe that summer restored his confidence . At this point Disney and his writers focused on the scenes in which Snow White and the dwarfs are introduced to the audience and each other . He laid out the likely assignments for everyone working on the film in a memorandum of November 25 , 1935 , and had decided on the personalities of the individual dwarfs . 
