Monday, October 4, 2010

Disney's greatest challenge? The hair of Rapunzel

The impressive lure of Rapunzel at a technical level were the biggest challenge for the makers of the Walt Disney newest animation film. Find out why in this post, like some of those furry facts about Rapunzel ...

Directors and Nathan Greno Byron Howard give at the bottom of a response to the issue of whether Rapunzels her a new animation sector had to be developed. As you can guess the answer is ' yes '. Walt Disney was for a similar challenge facing Pixar at monsters, Inc. had: creating realistic hair.You may ask it to any animator, blow up is child's play compared to simulate digital hairstyles.

Rapunzels huge head of hair is made up of more than 100,000 individual hairs.Her golden waves are no less than 21 metres. As you can see all hairs of Rapunzel would put one after the other, it would be a very long hair of more than 2929 km. But not only Rapunzels hair is a daunting task, even the hair of Flynn Rider must, of course, fluttering in the right way when he passed on a horse gallops up.

The movement of the hair to simulate a special software was developed. There never was such a huge amount of hair is as well animated as Rapunzel is the first main character that so many her.Kelly Ward is one of those three experts that the software developed for the hair of Rapunzel and the other main characters. They took out her doctorate in the study of hair, something where they are in the past ten years had specialized. In its area, she is one of the best.

I would like to make a final hairy y'know?During the production of Rapunzel let ten female employees to grow their hair.At the end we gave them about 10 inches (25 centimeters) cut off her to an organization itself entitled to wigs for sick people.

Rapunzel appears from 1 december 2010 in the Dutch and Belgian cinemas (also in 3D).More pictures, drawings and trailers can be found in our previous posts.

Rapunzel – Directors Q&A # 1 – Creating the Hair


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