“The character design of Flynn came from the process which was called the “hot man meeting” by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, during which they set up a meeting with all of the female employees of the studio in one room and asked them for their opinions of what made a man good looking in order to create Flynn’s character design with features such as eye color, hair color and style and body type. Video footage showed concept art and photos of various male celebrities, including Johnny Depp, Hugh Jackman, Brad Pitt, David Beckham and Gene Kelly on the walls of the room. Director Byron Howard said they wanted to make Flynn “the most handsome, most attractive male lead Disney has ever had.”
“The hot man meeting” is now my second favorite animation design story, after the one about how Pixar animators working on the Dug team for Up had “fat dog day” where they basically went to a shelter and were like “please bring out your fattest dogs,” and then they hung out with the fattest jolliest available dogs, all day.
reblogging purly for animation sake (i swear!!!) like DUDE that last one. his pupils freaking dilate!!
The words used, as well as the context in which said, is a combination that is best explained, as....well, magic.
What better way to pay homage to the magic of the words Disney has provided us, than to make a blog specifically for it?
Quotes will appear on this blog in both photos, and in a quote setting. Enjoy :)
Tangled Trivia
In the marketplace, when Rapunzel looks at the mosaic of herself, the camera cuts from her eyes to the tile eyes of the picture and - very briefly - there is a clarinet musical motif that is exactly the same as the motif in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, when Cameron is looking at the pointillist painting and the camera cuts between Cameron’s eyes and that of the child in the painting. The moment is just a fraction of a second; just after that, Rapunzel looks at the clarinet player walking behind her and smiles.
Tangled Trivia
The character design of Flynn came from the process which was called the ‘hot man meeting’ by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, during which they set up a meeting with all of the female employees of the studio in one room and asked them for their opinions of what made a man good looking in order to create Flynn’s character design with features such as eye color, hair color and style and body type. Video footage showed concept art and photos of various male celebrities, including Johnny Depp, Hugh Jackman, Brad Pitt, David Beckham and Gene Kelly on the walls of the room
Tangled Trivia
Glen Keane’s ambition with this film, technically speaking, is to make the computer “bend its knee to the artist” instead of having the computer dictate the artistic style/look of the film, and make the computer become as “pliable as the pencil.”
Tangled Trivia
According to the animators for Flynn, he’s meant to be 26 years old, thus making him 8 years older than Rapunzel, who is 18 in the film - the largest age gap between any other Disney couple.
There are those who say fate is something beyond our command. That destiny is not our own, but I know better. Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it.
Genevieve Godbout interprets Disney’s Snow White and Cinderella in digital and mixed media
