It's a long process to bring a movie to life.
At the Frozen press day at the Walt Disney Animation Studios, I got the rare opportunity to try my hand at becoming an animator myself!
I learned from the special effects team that one of the many challenges of making Frozen was shooting the film with all the angles and the camera tracking. In an empty room, six Led lights track the movement of the camera. On the computers, however, it's a different story. When the camera moves, the tracker on the computer moves as well.
"At the end of the day, the goal is to map an organic, three-dimensional motion for a layout artist from the real world into the virtual," says Evan Goldberg, Disney Animation's Manager of Technology. "How do we decide where to put the camera to tell the story in the best possible way? How dramatic...
At the Frozen press day at the Walt Disney Animation Studios, I got the rare opportunity to try my hand at becoming an animator myself!
I learned from the special effects team that one of the many challenges of making Frozen was shooting the film with all the angles and the camera tracking. In an empty room, six Led lights track the movement of the camera. On the computers, however, it's a different story. When the camera moves, the tracker on the computer moves as well.
"At the end of the day, the goal is to map an organic, three-dimensional motion for a layout artist from the real world into the virtual," says Evan Goldberg, Disney Animation's Manager of Technology. "How do we decide where to put the camera to tell the story in the best possible way? How dramatic...
- 11/22/2013
- by cassandrahsiao@hotmail.com (Star Reporter Cassandra)
- kidspickflicks
To promote their new full length animated feature Frozen, Disney invited members of the press to Disney Animation Studios to check out how the film was made, and show us selected parts of the film before its November 27th release. Also, they made us this pretty cool animated video of our name!
In “Frozen,” fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff) and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf (voice of Josh Gad)in a race to find Anna’s sister Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel), whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter.
Our day started at the incredible Disney Animation Studios, in Burbank, Ca.
While there, we met with directors Chris Buck (Tarzan) and Jennifer Lee (co-writer Wreck-it Ralph), as well...
In “Frozen,” fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff) and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf (voice of Josh Gad)in a race to find Anna’s sister Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel), whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter.
Our day started at the incredible Disney Animation Studios, in Burbank, Ca.
While there, we met with directors Chris Buck (Tarzan) and Jennifer Lee (co-writer Wreck-it Ralph), as well...
- 10/11/2013
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Before Kristen Bell returns to the big screen for the "Veronica Mars" movie, she's joining a very exclusive club. With her next film, the animated "Frozen," she will join the ranks of Disney princesses. Bell's Anna is perhaps the quirkiest and most awkward of all of Disney's princesses, something partly inspired by Kristen herself.
The journey from real life to animated character is no easy feat, though. The animators go through several stages, which takes years, just to make sure they are creating the best possible product. Zap2it was invited to Disney Animation Studios to learn about the process of creating the characters in the movie, from conception through the finished product.
It all begins with concept art for the characters and the world they'll inhabit. To do that, the art direction team has some research to do. For "Frozen," that meant they traveled to Norway, the setting that...
The journey from real life to animated character is no easy feat, though. The animators go through several stages, which takes years, just to make sure they are creating the best possible product. Zap2it was invited to Disney Animation Studios to learn about the process of creating the characters in the movie, from conception through the finished product.
It all begins with concept art for the characters and the world they'll inhabit. To do that, the art direction team has some research to do. For "Frozen," that meant they traveled to Norway, the setting that...
- 10/11/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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