David Rosenthal: evaluation

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…And put them in full costumes so they could film them for inspiration, just so the animators could watch and see the natural motion so it would look as lifelike as possible to sell the illusion. This is so much different than animating a cartoon mouse. The massive investment in all the little details just to make the viewer buy in emotionally to these characters. My favorite one of these little tidbits is that the actress who played Snow White even wore a hair helmet. Since the drawn character's proportions were actually pretty different than a real-life woman, so that they could kinda get a sense from watching the test footage how the character moved around in the world. Yeah, I mean, you made the point a few minutes ago, Ben, that Walt Disney wasn't doing this because he was some capitalist. I think he really did recognize the incredible flywheel business model that he had sort of accidentally created and leaned into it. But like, that's not going to motivate him to film a whole live-action version in costume just so that they can make sure they get the spirit right. No.…

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