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The wait is finally over and BIG HERO 6 is now playing in theatres everywhere!!! And in celebration, I wanted to send around some fun facts on the movie!
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FUN FACTS
CHARACTERS
SLAM DUNK – Baymax is 6 feet tall
and 75 pounds—until Hiro mechs him out. Baymax, in his super suit, is more than
7 feet tall and can lift 1000 pounds. “He’s all air,” says head of animation
Zach Parrish.
GO AHEAD – Artists looked at
actors like John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper and other cowboys to study
cool, emotionally reserved traits while developing GoGo Tomago’s look and
personality.
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BLINK – Baymax sports a
standard nine-frame-blink, says head of animation Zach Parrish. “We play with
the speed of his blink throughout the film, but for the most part, it’s a
standard blink. It’s the amount of time we give the audience to think before he
blinks that says a lot—the longer it is, the more time he’s processing. A
double blink shows confusion. We used that a few times in the film. That could
be an acting choice for a human character, too.”
NEED FOR SPEED – Artists looked at speed
skaters to inform the body type and movement for GoGo Tomago, a passionate
student of speed.
DUUUUUUDE – Artists studied
snowboarders, skateboarders and surfers to develop movement and posture for
Fred.
CHILL OUT – Wasabi, at one time,
was a very Zen character with very Zen dreadlocks. When filmmakers tweaked his
personality, they initially decided the neatnik wouldn’t be a fan of the
not-oft-shampooed-do and gave him a haircut. The look didn’t last. It turns
out, everyone was just too attached to his cool locks.
LOOSE TOOTH – To ensure Hiro’s
charming gap-toothed grin stayed intact from any angle, controls were added to
his teeth so animators could make adjustments as needed.
TALENT
ROBOT LOVE – Ryan Potter, who voices Hiro in “Big Hero 6,” was obsessed with
building robots as a kid. “I was 9 or 10 when I got a robotics kit,” he says.
“I absolutely love science.”
MORE ROBOT LOVE – Genesis Rodriguez, who
lends her voice to Honey Lemon in “Big Hero 6,” was on her school’s robotics
team. “I was a welder,” she says. “So I made sure my weldings were just perfect
and very aesthetically pleasing as well. People didn’t expect us to be so good.
That was the beauty of it. We were just this bright group of girls who had an
idea, executed it and beat the guys.”
SMART
GUY -- James Cromwell, who lends his voice to Professor Robert
Callaghan, studied at Carnegie Mellon University (then called Carnegie Tech).
“Big Hero 6” filmmakers spent time at the school, learning all about the
innovative field of soft robotics, which ultimately inspired Baymax, a huggable
vinyl robot that takes care of people.
FULL
CIRCLE – As a child, Damon Wayans Jr., who provides the voice of Wasabi,
wanted to be an animator when he grew up. He even studied animation after
graduating high school before he decided to pursue acting.
FILMMAKING
LET IT GROW – The “Big Hero 6”
animation team topped 100 members (103, to be exact). That’s about 15 more
animators than 2013’s feature film “Frozen.”
MARTIAL ARTISTS – Filmmakers selected karate
to broaden Baymax’s skillset—but animators had to adjust some of the movements
to work for the voluminous character’s build. A few members of the team visited
a nearby martial arts studio to get a feel for the practice. Pros were asked to
attempt some of the moves while on their knees to simulate Baymax’s signature
proportions.
I CAN FLY – Filmmakers consulted
with flight specialist Jason McKinley, who worked on both “Disney’s Planes” and
“Planes: Fire & Rescue,” to choreograph and execute the flight sequences
with Baymax and Hiro.
670’S A CROWD – Walt Disney Animation
Studios’ proprietary system Denizen allowed filmmakers to create bigger, more
believable crowds for “Big Hero 6.” created
around 670 unique characters, compared to 270 in “Frozen,” 185 in “Wreck-It Ralph”
and 80 in “Tangled.”
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Each of the 670 characters has up to 32
different clothing look combinations, plus 32 different hair and skin tones.
That means, filmmakers could invite 686,080 unique characters to the San
Fransokyo party before there were any exact repeats.
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Denizen was made available to everyone at Walt
Disney Animation Studios and employees were encouraged to model themselves in
the system to join the crowd. More than 200 characters were created, and
employees will see themselves up on the big screen—walking among the “Big Hero
6.”
COUNT ON IT -- The "Port of San
Fransokyo" scene has over 6000 people in it.
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23 districts were built in 3D.
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83,149 lots of the 150,000 in all of San Francisco were built.
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18.8 million building parts.
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215,000 streetlights.
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260,000 trees.
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