- Title: FJ-HRN-719
- Summary: George Miller/Happy Feet: HRN-719 Happy Feet George Miller
- Description:13:57:25 - A01. HRN-719 In: 13.57.25 Out: 13.58.10 Sound Bite; George Miller Yeah Babe was live action, animatronics you know the mechanical animatronics and the faces were animated but nothing else. This is completely opposite, this is literally all animation, nothing is real, except the humans did you see in a brief moment in the film. And we also the dancing, the basic core dancing was motion captured, I realized that dancers are born, they hone there skills over many years and it would take a life time for an animator to animate the kind of dancing weve got here. So we went to people like Shavian Glover who is the best tap dancer in the world and captured his performance and out it in the ?. 13:58:25 - A02. HRN-719 In: 13.58.25 Out: 13.59.10 Sound Bite; George Miller Well its a combination if like fifty people would have worked on the character of mumble, so we start with the voices, with Elijah Wood, we then go to motion capture, motion editing, which is a form of animating and then often well about ten different animators worked on Mumble, so you know there all different in different shots and in different scenes and so on. And then of course you have to cloth them in there six million feathers, you surface them and then you have to put them on a set that has to have all that ice and snow and wind and so on. So its a huge process to actually create the character. 13:59:26 - A03. HRN-719 In: 13.59.26 Out: 14.00.33 Sound Bite: George Miller It slowly evolved the characters, our characters are based very closely on the real nature, the nature of the penguins, real life basically. So the Adele penguins we followed all the way up from the skeleton, the muscles, there size. Even the characters Robin Williams plays Ramon has a little kind of brown of fluff on top of his head, theres pictures of where they lose like Mumble, sometimes they retain the adolescent fluff, so all of that, Lovelacey all of the characters Robin Williams play with the yellow feathers that a rock hopper penguin. The Leopard seal who attacks mumble, the elephant seals, there all based on nature so we wanted to follow it as closely as possible. We did work through the characters to develop slightly different looks so we could differentiate characters, but the main thing we spent time doing was just working out the technology. I mean how do you render six million feathers on these characters, weve used up a lot of time doing that. 14:00:48 - A04. HRN-719 In: 14.00.48 Out: 14.01.33 Sound Bite; George Miller And that way you can hone your story, it would be very difficult to change some lines, but we put the basic stuff down, we kept making the movie and then wed call people back and its not hard to get someone for a half of morning and thats why I dont think in a live action movie we could ever get a cast like this but if even if there doing another movie they can come in on a weekend and stuff, they can come in and sing a song, if it doesnt quite work that can come back. So that was why we were privileged enough to get this cast. And yeah that way you can get your story better and better and better and I think thats why Pixar are such master, master story tellers because they know how to hone there stories and thats what I was able to do with this.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2006
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2000s
- File Name: FJ-HRN-719