Frozen (formerly The Snow Queen) - Part II

[totallyminnie86]

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"Just finished a recording session for disney's Frozen! Feeling really great about it."

[Sotiris]

Q: How did you get hired for the job [for WrecK-It Ralph]?

Jennifer Lee: Phil and I went to film school together [at Columbia University] and after graduation we met weekly at the Tea Lounge in Brooklyn with our writing. We were very different writers but our sensibilities fit, and we knew how to push each other. Phil developed Wreck-it Ralph with Rich Moore. But feature animation is a long process; it takes on average three to four years to get an animated feature into theaters. The writers are at the studio everyday. They go to every story board meeting, editorial session, recording session, and more. The entire movie is drawn, recorded, scored, and screened at least seven times. And that says nothing about the rewrites, which are constant. Phil was getting busier with Cedar Rapids [which he wrote] and the likes. He needed someone he could trust to come in and protect the integrity of what he started. He knew he could work with me, so he passed along my scripts to Disney. I owe that man a ton, because I have fallen madly in love with animation.

Q: What are you going to do next?

Jennifer Lee: I’m actually writing Disney’s next animated feature Frozen, which comes out next year. Frozen is loosely based — or mostly just inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen. I will also have the honor of directing it, too, with fellow director and animation genius Chris Buck (who co-directed Tarzan and Surf’s Up). For me, it’s nothing short of a dream-come-true experience.

Source: http://www.babble.com/babble-voices/ede ... -it-ralph/

[Edthehyena]

What the good girl can possibly do in ONLY one year anyway ?
Change the characters' names, hair color, personnalities, movie's title...
Add some new characters... ?
Change the story, add some scenes.... ?

What the use, the need of her intervention now. Were things so bad ?
I thought that most of it was finished by now. So i don't get what she can/want to change...

Unless no scene is animated or finalized yet ???!!! Maybe someone could recall me the movie process main steps ?

[Prince Kido]

Recent Disney features such like Bolt, Tangled or Wreck-it Ralph had short production schedules (between 1 year and 1 year and an half) as well as Frozen now. That's all!
Jennifer Lee is on Frozen' story since a few time now to help fix some issues and she has proven her skills are great, so it was only an official announcement to help and join Chris Buck to accomplish the movie' shedule which is so short.
Small twickles on scenes or designs always happen on animated features, even one year before the release but the pre-production of Frozen is ready.
Stay confident... ^^

[Sotiris]

Maybe someone could recall me the movie process main steps ?

I'm not sure about all of the steps but I think it goes something like this:

• pitch (they pitch three ideas from which one is selected)

• speculative development (the original pitch gets more refined and detailed and then it's presented again)

• development (ideas are further developed, script/screenplay is written, storyboards are created)

• pre-production (cast and crew is hired, every aspect of the film is designed and created - art direction, animatics, costumes, designs, envirnoments etc)

• production (rigging, animation, layout, effects, lighting etc)

• post-production (editing, sound mixing, scoring etc)

[qindarka]

Jennifer Lee has probably been working on the film for a while before the official announcement so she doesn't have only one year.

[disneyprincess11]

wait, if animation hasn't begun yet, how will they finish in a year?

[nachonaco]

wait, if animation hasn't begun yet, how will they finish in a year?

Like it or not, that's one of the advantages that the new technique allows for: They can finish a film in less than a year.

[qindarka]

What new technique are you referring to?

Also, why the sarcasm? Isn't the ability to finish a film more quickly a good thing?

[Sotiris]

Wait, if animation hasn't begun yet, how will they finish in a year?

Like usual. Unpaid overtime.

[disneyprincess11]

Wait, if animation hasn't begun yet, how will they finish in a year?

Like usual. Unpaid overtime.

Wow, that's horrible!

[PatrickvD]

wait, if animation hasn't begun yet, how will they finish in a year?

Aladdin was animated in 9 months. This is nothing new.

[rodis]

Aladdin was animated in 9 months. This is nothing new.

I knew they were short in time but 9 months?! It seems like something that would take at least 2 years to accomplish. No wonder the crew was exhausted after Aladdin was completed.

[DisneyEra]

I keep wondering, How can Dreamworks Animation release like 3 films a year while Disney Animation struggles to get 1 film out per year?

[SWillie!]

Not sure where anybody is seeing that animation on Frozen hasn't started yet. That isn't true. I talked to multiple animators at CTN (Nov 16-18 ) that had already started their first shots.

(Also, while I can't claim to know what happens behind the scenes, I've talked to one artist that was very happy with the long hours they worked during crunch time on Ralph, because "the money is super good during those times". I know the TAG blog always makes it sound like every artist works unpaid overtime, but I'm not entirely convinced that's the case. At least at big studios, that could get in major trouble for it.)

[Jules]

I keep wondering, How can Dreamworks Animation release like 3 films a year while Disney Animation struggles to get 1 film out per year?

Because DreamWorks Animation SKG is actually made up of two studios. There is the in-house animation department that made films like The Prince of Egypt, Sinbad and Shark Tale. Then there is PDI (Pacific Data Images) that worked on the Shrek Movies, and (I think) Rise of the Guardians.

It's similar to when WDAS was made up of three studios. One in Burbank, one in Florida, and one in Paris.

[Edthehyena]

Thanx for all those details. I remember too that the very big and first step of them all is the complete recording of voices so the animation can be matched and time synkronized to it... Sound effects and music can be add and changed afterwards.

[estefan]

I keep wondering, How can Dreamworks Animation release like 3 films a year while Disney Animation struggles to get 1 film out per year?

Because DreamWorks Animation SKG is actually made up of two studios. There is the in-house animation department that made films like The Prince of Egypt, Sinbad and Shark Tale. Then there is PDI (Pacific Data Images) that worked on the Shrek Movies, and (I think) Rise of the Guardians.

It's similar to when WDAS was made up of three studios. One in Burbank, one in Florida, and one in Paris.

DreamWorks has also recently opened overseas studios in India and (correct me, if I'm wrong) China.

[qindarka]

Finally, we have some concrete info.

Granted, it's just a few quotes and one bit of concept art but it's a start.

http://family-room.ew.com/2012/12/13/di ... irst-look/

[DisneyDude2010]

yay!!!!


The concept art is really nice! And Anna's design looks lovely too!