#so that we're introduced to zootopia as a place to be redeemed as opposed to left behind

[happyendingsong]

i think raya dragon is less disney sameface and more friendship is magic ponyfication

what i think is MUCH funnier is how the design has completely changed from the first design we got in 2019, barely a year and a half ago!!!!

how much of this film have they completely overhauled since then!!!!! like the circumstances under which this film was developed, including but not limited to 1) the ousting of john lasseter 2) the resulting creative/corporate shakeup at disney appointing jennifer lee as chief creative officer and 3) having to switch to working remotely in 2020/21, are so so tasty and unfathomable. this film is gonna be such a fucking trainwreckkkkk <3333

#raya and the last dragon #disney #it's so so so funny looking into the development hell at disney nowadays #i think it's the case with all 3d animation studios now #like because you spend the first couple years building sets and models and you have different departments working on different sequences at #the same time #so if you completely overhaul the story like a year or two before it's meant to be in cinemas #you physically CAN rework the scenes you have and just abuse your workers with ridiculous crunch until it's finished #like at this point they just have a general jist of the look and shape of the film #so they can have the modellers and lighting department and layout artists and whoever else working on shit in the meantime before you even #have to touch animating #so they can leave the actual story in limbo til the last minute #it sounds so fucking exhausting and infuriating lol #like zootopia apparently had the fox as the main character until a YEAR before it's release!!! #when disney did a screening at pixar and i think it was pete docter who advised them to make the rabbit the main character #so that we're introduced to zootopia as a place to be redeemed as opposed to left behind #so that's a complete fucking reworking of the film they had to do in a YEAR it sounds so awful #and couldve been fixed if they just gave the writers and artists enough time to figure that basic storytelling choice out at the start! #anyway it's all very juicy and disney's development hell is the most interesting shit to come out of their animation studio in years #o #media thots