Disney celebrated Once upon a time there was a studio
From Monday 16 October Disney+ subscribers will be able to discover it on the platform Once upon a time there was a studio. The short film was made to celebrate one hundred years of Disney. The plot takes place at the end of a workday at Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California. The place then becomes magical. Mickey and Minnie come out of the frame on the wall and gather their friends to take an official photo for the centenary of the big-eared studio.
The directors ofOnce upon a time there was a studio, Dan Abraham and Trent Correy, used an impressive number of characters for their short film. In all, 534 characters from over 85 Disney films they are present there. We find for example Snow White, Peter Pan, Ariel and Belle. Many actors came to lend their voices again. Directors even used it that of Robin Williams. And this, without the help of artificial intelligence.
Robin Williams was cast as the Genie
As reported Variety, as soon as they took on the project, Correy and Abraham knew they wanted the Genie to appear. As a reminder, the Genie is one of the main characters ofAladdin. And he was voiced by Robin Williams in the feature film released in 1992. The two directors ofOnce upon a time there was a studio therefore discovered recordings that the actor had made for the feature film, but which had not been preserved in the final draft.
It is therefore thanks to these careless shots from the early 90s that we can hear Robin Williams’ voice again Once upon a time there was a studio. Abraham and Correy did not it didn’t use artificial intelligence to revive the actor in their short film. Furthermore, the technology in question does not have It wasn’t used at all for this Disney project. Recall that Robin Williams’ daughter recently protested against this technology.
An aesthetic faithful to that of the original films
As for the aesthetics of the film available on Disney+, still second Varietythe directors wanted to give the impression that each character is straight out of their own movie. 80% of them were then drawnand the rest done on the computer. As producer Bradford Simonsen explains: “We had to do this for the audience response to be visceral. »
Watching Once upon a time there was a studiowe can therefore for example see Moana as she appears in Moana: Legend of the End of the World and Merlin the Enchanter in the film of the same name. Even though the two feature films were released 53 years apart! Disney has therefore decided to offer us a unique experience with its new short film.
Source: Cine Serie
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