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Sotiris wrote:A new image premiered at Annecy. Art by Cory Loftis.

taei wrote:THIS is how you make a teaser!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KWRcBefo2A

taei wrote:THIS is how you make a teaser!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KWRcBefo2A

Co-directed by Byron Howard (“Tangled”) and Rich Moore (“Wreck-It Ralph”) — who ran out on stage dressed in furry rabbit and fox costumes — the film recalls the anthropomorphic style of Disney’s 1973 hand-drawn “Robin Hood,” taking place in an elaborate society where humans don’t exist, but all the different creatures speak, wear clothes and walk on their hind legs.

“I’ve been trying to get an animal movie made at Disney for a long time,” Howard said. “Our boss, John Lasseter, feels that better storytelling comes from research.” At first, Lasseter sent them to a local wild-animal park to study the animals’ behavior and movement, but that wasn’t enough, packing the creative team off to Kenya, where they observed zebras, cheetahs and giraffes in the open Savannah.

Those trips directly informed how the animators adapted the animals’ natural movements to walking upright, as well as the personalities of the various critters in the film. Oddly enough, that sort of species-specific stereotyping happens to be what the prejudice-challenging film aims to debunk, using creativity and humor to deliver a pointed commentary on racial tolerance. “One of the biggest problems in Zootopia is bias,” Moore explained. “Animals are quick to stereotype each other.”

Judging by the material presented at Annecy, “Zootopia” vis-dev artist Cory Loftis and his colleagues appear to have designed some of the studio’s most visually appealing CG characters yet for the film. At the very least, Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde represent a marked improvement over the Bratz-doll look of their recent human counterparts.

DisneyJedi wrote:This would really be Disney's third movie ugh anthropomorphic animals, the second being Chicken Little.

“I’ve been trying to get an animal movie made at Disney for a long time,” Howard said. “Our boss, John Lasseter, feels that better storytelling comes from research.” At first, Lasseter sent them to a local wild-animal park to study the animals’ behavior and movement, but that wasn’t enough, packing the creative team off to Kenya, where they observed zebras, cheetahs and giraffes in the open Savannah.

Sotiris wrote:From the Zootopia presentation at Annecy.

Co-directed by Byron Howard (“Tangled”) and Rich Moore (“Wreck-It Ralph”) — who ran out on stage dressed in furry rabbit and fox costumes — the film recalls the anthropomorphic style of Disney’s 1973 hand-drawn “Robin Hood,” taking place in an elaborate society where humans don’t exist, but all the different creatures speak, wear clothes and walk on their hind legs.

“I’ve been trying to get an animal movie made at Disney for a long time,” Howard said. “Our boss, John Lasseter, feels that better storytelling comes from research.” At first, Lasseter sent them to a local wild-animal park to study the animals’ behavior and movement, but that wasn’t enough, packing the creative team off to Kenya, where they observed zebras, cheetahs and giraffes in the open Savannah.

Those trips directly informed how the animators adapted the animals’ natural movements to walking upright, as well as the personalities of the various critters in the film. Oddly enough, that sort of species-specific stereotyping happens to be what the prejudice-challenging film aims to debunk, using creativity and humor to deliver a pointed commentary on racial tolerance. “One of the biggest problems in Zootopia is bias,” Moore explained. “Animals are quick to stereotype each other.”

Judging by the material presented at Annecy, “Zootopia” vis-dev artist Cory Loftis and his colleagues appear to have designed some of the studio’s most visually appealing CG characters yet for the film. At the very least, Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde represent a marked improvement over the Bratz-doll look of their recent human counterparts.

Source: http://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/ ... 1201521458

Co-directed by Byron Howard (“Tangled”) and Rich Moore (“Wreck-It Ralph”) — who ran out on stage dressed in furry rabbit and fox costumes

Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde represent a marked improvement over the Bratz-doll look of their recent human counterparts.

Fair enough, but why not making a naturalistic one? I like animal movies, but I prefer the naturalistic ones.

unprincess wrote: heh I think they know who a big portion of this film's fanbase is gonna be...

2Disney4Ever wrote:You know, there's really nothing I can say about this movie that I haven't already said in the past about every other CG movie Disney had been doing that I've complained about. I hate it, and Disney has no business making it be computer animated, no matter what the story is. That pretty much sums up the majority of their recent animated films in a nutshell.

http://day-to-day-disney.tumblr.com/

I guess it's lucky for me then that one of the idiots making this movie just happened to have started a Tumblr account about it, so I'll be sure to let him know how much he's destroying Disney animation (just like I've told Jennifer Lee when I found her Twitter account), because whenever I find easy access to the people who work at Disney today, it's my chance to confront them once and for all. After all, how else will Disney animation ever get saved if most people don't have the balls to do what I try to do for 2D animation?

2Disney4Ever wrote:
I guess it's lucky for me then that one of the idiots making this movie just happened to have started a Tumblr account about it, so I'll be sure to let him know how much he's destroying Disney animation (just like I've told Jennifer Lee when I found her Twitter account), because whenever I find easy access to the people who work at Disney today, it's my chance to confront them once and for all. After all, how else will Disney animation ever get saved if most people don't have the balls to do what I try to do for 2D animation?

jazzflower92 wrote:Just think ten years ago they were trying to be Dreamworks with Chicken Little but now they recognized that they just had to be themselves instead of badly copying everyone.

2Disney4Ever wrote:

jazzflower92 wrote:Just think ten years ago they were trying to be Dreamworks with Chicken Little but now they recognized that they just had to be themselves instead of badly copying everyone.

Well I'm afraid your logic doesn't work there, cause Disney is not being themselves anymore. If they were truly being themselves as an animation studio then their animation would still be 2D, because that is what true Disney animation is! Out of all their recent animated films, Princess and the Frog and Winnie the Pooh were the only ones where Disney animation was truly being itself again and not deluded into thinking that they should only be doing CGI.

jazzflower92 wrote:

2Disney4Ever wrote: Well I'm afraid your logic doesn't work there, cause Disney is not being themselves anymore. If they were truly being themselves as an animation studio then their animation would still be 2D, because that is what true Disney animation is! Out of all their recent animated films, Princess and the Frog and Winnie the Pooh were the only ones where Disney animation was truly being itself again and not deluded into thinking that they should only be doing CGI.

No matter what their art style is they still will be Disney.

Disney's Divinity wrote:

unprincess wrote: heh I think they know who a big portion of this film's fanbase is gonna be...

Furries?