This year’s animated Oscar contenders offer brave new worlds: a unique mammal metropolis (“Zootopia”), a fantasy Japan (“Kubo and the Two Strings”), an untapped Polynesian paradise (“Moana”), a fuzzy fiber art environment (“Trolls”) and a tactile hybrid between storybook fantasy and reality (“The Little Prince”).
“Zootopia”
Disney’s design team built an imaginatively diverse animal world where predator and prey co-exist comprised of five boroughs: Savanna Central (downtown), Tundratown, Rain Forest District, Sahara Square and Bunnyburrow. But what’s unique about Zootopia is that it’s a global city built by animals for animals.
As a result, there are multipurpose public buildings where all animals can interact with each other along with others specifically designed for certain mammals. However, human architecture is evident throughout while animal patterns are part of the design DNA. They experimented with different layouts for the various districts in a Disneyland-like pattern, which required both logistical and dramatic logic.
“Zootopia”
Disney’s design team built an imaginatively diverse animal world where predator and prey co-exist comprised of five boroughs: Savanna Central (downtown), Tundratown, Rain Forest District, Sahara Square and Bunnyburrow. But what’s unique about Zootopia is that it’s a global city built by animals for animals.
As a result, there are multipurpose public buildings where all animals can interact with each other along with others specifically designed for certain mammals. However, human architecture is evident throughout while animal patterns are part of the design DNA. They experimented with different layouts for the various districts in a Disneyland-like pattern, which required both logistical and dramatic logic.
- 12/27/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Each year we throw an animated movie into the mix of our Best Shot season. It's a handy reminder that Best Shot is about more than just camera work and lighting actors and sets but how filmmaking teams choose to tell the stories they're telling. But even if we think of it only as a celebration of cinematography, animated films have been upping their game there, too, famously hiring high profile cinematographers as consultants as CG animation really took over the world in the last 20 years.
Since we're counting on Zootopia, one of the year's most beloved films, to be one of the nominees (though it's too early to say "frontrunner") for Best Animated Feature we give it pride of place here today now that it's out on BluRay and DVD. My own choice will come tomorrow due to a last minute screening. But please do enjoy these Best Shot...
Since we're counting on Zootopia, one of the year's most beloved films, to be one of the nominees (though it's too early to say "frontrunner") for Best Animated Feature we give it pride of place here today now that it's out on BluRay and DVD. My own choice will come tomorrow due to a last minute screening. But please do enjoy these Best Shot...
- 7/20/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Our friends from Upbeat always give us top quality videos to host on HeyUGuys but this one (in my opinion) is their best so far! They got to travel to Disney Animation Studios in Burbank California and were given amazing access to the world of Disney where they explored just how the 50th animated Disney feature film, Tangled is made.
In the featuerette, we get to see interviews with directors – Nathan Greno & Byron Howard, Art Director – David Goetz, Visual Effects Supervisor – Steve Goldberg, Head of Disney Animation Research Library – Fox Carny and Supervising Animator – John Khars.
This really is a fantastic featurette and if you’re intersted in Disney in general or anything to do with animation, this is well worth a watch.
Disney’s Tangled is released in the UK this Friday, 28th January and you can read our review here or keep track of all our coverage of the movie here.
In the featuerette, we get to see interviews with directors – Nathan Greno & Byron Howard, Art Director – David Goetz, Visual Effects Supervisor – Steve Goldberg, Head of Disney Animation Research Library – Fox Carny and Supervising Animator – John Khars.
This really is a fantastic featurette and if you’re intersted in Disney in general or anything to do with animation, this is well worth a watch.
Disney’s Tangled is released in the UK this Friday, 28th January and you can read our review here or keep track of all our coverage of the movie here.
- 1/27/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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