![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe when you meet them they don’t look like that but that voice carries the visual DNA in it. For example, if you are speaking to someone on the phone who you have never met, that voice immediately conjures up images of what that person looks like. Glen Keane: When you are about to animate a character, the voice has a huge impact on the look of that character. Q: Can you talk about how the casting of Zachary Levi and Mandy Moore influenced your drawings, if they did at all? Kelly Ward, who has a PhD in animating computer hair, joined our team and was every bit as creative as I am with a pencil as she was with numbers, equations, concepts and the vision to interpret those elements into a beautiful, flowing, organic hair on the screen. Glen Keane: We started writing software to animate the hair in 2005. How much effort and research did you need to end up with such perfect effects? Q: Hair animation is still one of the most challenging parts in today’s CG animation work. That way it was a constant natural mentorship throughout the making of this film bringing the appeal of hand drawn into CG. I could draw over the top of every frame if necessary and the animators would see it large on the screen and those drawings would then appear on each animator’s computer back in their offices. We installed a cintiq tablet in our dailies screening room and I would watch the animators’ recent animation. I call us “the triumvirate.” And they found ways to pull me in so I could do what comes naturally to me, draw. John Kahrs and Clay Kaytis where my partners as supervising animators. Glen Keane: For me it was very important to find what I call “bridge people.” These are people who understand computer and hand drawn animation. Q: How did you reach the amazing “organic quality” in terms of the character animation? Did you have any special tools or techniques to improve that effect, or is it in the end just the hard work of the artists? Executive Producer and Supervising Animator Glen Keane answered some questions about the making-of Tangled, available on 3D Blu-ray, DVD and Blu-ray on March 29.
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