Conceived and directed by Trent Correy and Dan Abraham, the project involves a live tour of the location from the studio.
The short is now available on Disney+.
disney presented a short film titled “Once Upon a Studio”it brings together animated characters created in the last 100 years by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It is already available in Disney+.
Conceived and directed by Trent Correy and Dan Abraham, the project involves a live tour of the place where the magic happens, that is, where much of the work on Disney animated films is done. But there’s an extra dash of magic here, as cartoon characters jump out of their frames and wander the hallways where they were originally drawn or rendered.
What Once Upon a Studio is about
This hybrid style, where animation embellishes live-action images, was first implemented by Disney in “Song of the South” from 1946, and here it serves to suggest that cartoons have a life of their own. Correy and Abraham came up with the idea during the pandemic, developing it in meetings in fast-food restaurant parking lots, not realizing how difficult it would be to achieve. Since Disney switched to computer animation in “Chicken Little” 2005’s CG favorites had to coexist alongside the hand-drawn princesses and heroes that had come before.
For the final shot, where 543 classic Disney characters gather in front of the Animation Building, dozens of Dalmatian puppies appear alongside human-scale princesses and the giant Tuk Tuk. “Raya and the last dragon”. The lighting supervisor Daniel Rice had to find a way to light all the hand-drawn and computer-generated characters so that they looked like they shared the same space; , designing it so that those in front cast shadows on the familiar faces behind them.
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