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Warm Regards wrote:So I went back to watch the teaser again.

And actually, I think disneyprincess11 is right, they will somehow explain the hair growth.

On the walls you see paintings of scenes from the first movie. But you also see a brunette Rapunzel holding hands with her parents. Which implies she was brunette at some point and they aren't just pretending the end of the movie didn't happen

It's better than it would look with the original 3D style on a smaller budget (like Sofia the First :shudder:)

D82 wrote:Regarding the title change, I guess they changed it to make it easier for the audience to identify it as a TV series, or so that it wasn't confused with the short's title which was very similar.

Sotiris wrote:It looks like "Tangled: Before Ever After" will be the TV movie that serves as a pilot to the series while the series itself will just be called "Tangled: The Series". They've done the same thing with "The Lion Guard" where they first released the pilot as a TV movie with the subtitle "Return of the Roar".

Tom Bancroft wrote:Mercury Filmworks is an awesome Canadian studio and they're doing a lot of the Disney TV animation shows like Jake and the Never Land Pirates, The Lion Guard, and the newest Tangled show that’s about to come out. They gave us a VIP tour which was really cool. […] They were working tradigitally which was awesome to see. They use Toon Boom which is like a Flash-style look but with a different program. They have made it into an art form. It’s amazing the way they can do it. And they brought in CG elements too. We saw a scene from Tangled that somebody was working on their Cintiq. He was a CG animator. He was doing a horse rearing back and doing all this full animation with basically a CG version of Rapunzel and then they put in her face from 2D. They add that separately on another level to make it look seamless.

Christian Larocque, animation director at Mercury Filmworks, wanted to find a more fluid way of animating characters in the short amount of time he had available to him. His idea was to “rig” the character in 3D first, which meant creating a digital puppet of each animal character, which the animators could then spin around and see from every angle. It was this technique, thought to be the first of its kind, that allowed the team to put the cartoon characters in every conceivable position, whether they were jumping on to rocks or leaping into the air. This allowed them to see how the characters would move in any given situation. “The rig has all the points of articulation; all the joints of the character, the mouth movements, the eye movements,” says Riley. Once the animators had used the 3D rig to work out how each character would look in each position, they could translate that into a 2D model to give the animation that authentic, “handdrawn” look.

Kyle wrote:they are essentially using the 3D models as reference to better inform the 2D drawings from the sound of it

Q: What is the technology used for the show? And does it have 3D modeling of characters in it?

Laura Price: It's animated in Harmony; the show is almost all 2D with some 3D models sprinkled in I think!

disneyprincess11 wrote:Is Rapunzel's friend secretly evil? She looks so evil from her facial expression to her clothes.

Avaitor wrote:Is it just me, or does her friend almost kind of looks like Mother Gothel?