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hi
i'm jeff gibson director of myth of
frozen tale and i'm brittany lee the
production designer
and we're gonna break down a scene for
you so the scene we're gonna be watching
is the water knock
scene and this is the water horse from
frozen two basically the film is about
the balance of the elements so when you
first start this scene
you'll see that there's flames and fire
so this is the fire spirit the
salamander
the rain starts coming down this
waterfall appears and then
out of the waterfall emerges the water
knock that basically balanced out for
the previous spirit
for our knock we really wanted to push
the stylization because the knock in
frozen two is so
fantastic but we were representing sort
of a storybook
fairy tale version of it so we wanted to
make that clear and do something a
little bit different and more stylized
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i thought it would be great to combine
some cg
and 2d effects to really have this sort
of
tactile tangible quality to the film you
can see it here in the water effects
this horse is scared it dives into the
water and then we see the power of water
the power of this flood that then
comes down moving towards the viewers
and then we have the earth that begins
to balance out this spirit and form this
down
and turns into the day the rain
dissipates and we really just tried to
play off that
each one of the spirits is neither good
nor bad they just kind of are and
together they create this harmony where
the world can dance
yeah kind of a duality between all of
the elements in nature and that the
sweet spot is in the balance jeff and
brittany thank you for being here and
for all that insight into myth of frozen
tale
tell us what inspired the story behind
the short so the inspiration behind this
story was
my love of bedtime stories i just love
how they kind of made my
imagination wander into these places and
so i started thinking of what was a
bedtime story that you might have been
told if you grew up
in or around arendelle and kind of led
myself to this world of myth of frozen
tale where the lml spirits are the main
players
so this project features both hand-drawn
and cg animation what made you want to
combine those two
elements and how that influenced the
storytelling process yeah i mean i love
the heritage of disney animation all
those 2d films but in particular
fantasia
that was just such a big inspiration
they tell stories through music and the
hand-drawn and so i wanted to bring that
similar vibe into
vr but also just how do we make a
real-time short that's flattened on a
screen
having brittany on board and her kind of
stylistic sensibilities was amazing
because i feel like we really achieved
something cool
i'm a huge fan of traditional animation
and we do a lot of work in cg
but because myth was going to be an even
further stylized version
of the frozen world it seemed like a
perfect opportunity to
sort of introduce those little elements
that we could play with and hand-drawn
animation and play into that fantasia
aspect that jeff was talking about
the film was originally created in
virtual reality so
can you tell us what it was like to use
vr in the creation process
brittany and i were able to be in the vr
headsets as we created these worlds and
we were able to see
the world being created basically in
real time it was a really unique process
for us at disney animation yeah i'm sure
that we looked pretty
ridiculous to those outside watching us
do this
but for me i had no experience with vr
prior to this project it was actually
such a great learning experience and
being in the middle of the film that
you're working on is
like nothing else how does it feel to
have myth a frozen tale on disney plus
and what do you hope viewers take away
from watching this short it's amazing to
have it on a platform like disney plus
where my family all my friends at home
they can now watch that film and i hope
that it invokes that sense of heritage
of disney animation where there's this
richness of traditional animation
mixed with cg and music it's just so
exciting i feel so fortunate to have it
on disney plus
yeah i agree we've been living with this
for so long and
been working on it and been so excited
about it that it's just so nice to now
be able to share it with
everyone and hopefully people will enjoy
it as much as we enjoy
working on it
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