“From armadillo to zebra: creating the diverse characters and world of “Zootopia”” by Burkard, Keim, Leach, Palmer, Petti, et al. …
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- From armadillo to zebra: creating the diverse characters and world of "Zootopia"
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- Walt Disney Animation Studios
Abstract:
The world of “Zootopia” is a vast, multi-scale, multi-climate city that represents the biomes of the tundra, desert, rainforest, and grasslands. It is also a place where humans never existed and animals have evolved to be anthropomorphic, clothed, city-dwellers.
Walt Disney Animation Studios pushed the artistic boundaries of all aspects of the production process to create vastly different environments filled with hundreds of unique and detailed characters. The scale difference of the animals, from mouse to giraffe (95:1), required creation of a world that could be inhabited by characters of all shapes and sizes while depicting thousands of furred and clothed animals.
