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First Look: Disney's Rapunzel

April 22, 2008
Source: SlashFilm
by Alex Billington

First Look: Disney's Rapunzel

Largely because there is a lack of anything else newsworthy so far this week, I thought I should throw this out there before we hit the summer movie season anyway. We first mentioned Rapunzel in the announcement of Disney and Pixar's Full Animated Line-Up Through 2012, although the film has been in the works for quite a long time. The animated film is now slated for release in December of 2010 after recently being revamped at Disney. You can check out a few new concept art photos below.

In this new telling of the classic fairy tale, Rapunzel, audiences will be transported to a stunning CG fantasy world complete with the iconic tower, an evil witch, a gallant hero and, of course, the mysterious girl with the long golden tresses. Expect adventure, heart, humor, and hair… lots of hair, when Rapunzel unleashes her locks in theaters for the 2010 holiday.

Disney's RapunzelDisney's Rapunzel

Directors Glen Keane and Dean Wellins want Rapunzel to look and feel like a traditional hand-drawn animated Disney film, but in 3D. They're using a certain rendering technique that will make the surface look painted while still maintaining the depth and dimensions of 3D animation. Some test footage was originally screened at Siggraph in 2005, which is where the concept art of Rapunzel to the left originally came from. Since then the project has revamped and we can't confirm whether that's still the same design we'll eventually see. The visual style for this film is based on French Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard's painting "The Swing." Stay tuned for more on this Disney project as it develops.

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"Directors Glen Keane and Dean Wellins want Rapunzel to look and feel like a traditional hand-drawn animated Disney film, but in 3D. They're using a certain rendering technique that will make the surface look painted while still maintaining the depth and dimensions of 3D animation."

To me it looks more like someone put Vasoline on the lens. Like they're on the set of "The View," or something.

Rapunzel looks a heck of a lot like Kate Hudson - but I see they haven't announced the cast list yet…

Tom Brazelton on Apr 22, 2008

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That's gorgeous animation.

John on Apr 22, 2008

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Is it just me or is the animation of her eyes just… well… off. Her right eye seems unnaturally bigger than her left. And hell, her eyes just seem a big big to begin with anyway. Maybe using a 2d model for a 3d character doesn't quite work as nicely as they'd like it to. I'm not impressed.

Icarus on Apr 22, 2008

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I'll be honest… I don't get why an animator would even want to work on this sort of crap anymore. Haven't we about run dry with all the 'fairy tale' crap over the past 80 years? I mean… I'll go see it cause I see anything that's animated, regardless, but I long for a day when Pixar will release something like "Schindler's List" or when Dreamworks will release something like "Seven"… only animated. Why should we let the Japanese animators have all the fun?

Squiggly_P on Apr 22, 2008

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why does it look like she had a stroke and one side of her face is just all over the place??
Hell, I'll still go watch it, if only cuz I watch anything animated

Alfredo on Apr 23, 2008

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