A current Q&A with the co-director of Kung Fu Panda 4 has revealed that, for some cause, an early model of the movie was deliberate to be a reside motion, animation hybrid.
It is actually arduous to tug off reside motion and animation hybrid movies – Who Framed Roger Rabbit might be the one one to actually do it efficiently to at the present time. It’s a must to put the work in to make it convincing, which is why I am actually glad to listen to that Kung Fu Panda 4 is not such a hybrid like initially deliberate. Stephanie Stine, co-director of the not too long ago launched sequel, not too long ago took half within the Kung Fu Panda Reddit neighborhood’s Discord server, the place she answered an entire vary of questions concerning the movie. And one of many weirdest revelations is definitely the truth that, earlier than she was introduced on, the movie would have featured reside motion people in a largely animated movie.
Obtained to speak to the Co-director of KFP 4 and possibly obtained probably the most data we’ll ever get a couple of KFP movies manufacturing. I’ve made a transcript, it’s 48 questions, 8200 phrases lengthy.
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“The unique story… really had Zhen and The Chameleon be human (she was really generally known as The Collector earlier than we ditched the people concept). They got here from a metropolis known as… Hu-man metropolis,” explains Stine. “The unique story was presupposed to be hybrid reside motion/animation, that’s why there have been people. For some cause earlier than I got here on, the management staff scrapped the hybrid reside motion concept. They saved the people on for some time although, up till our 2nd animatic screening if I bear in mind accurately.”
That may clearly be fairly radically totally different from the ultimate consequence, and a fully baffling artistic alternative. Donald Glover appeared bizarre sufficient in his Throughout the Spider-Verse cameo, and that was actually only for a couple of seconds, so I can not think about it for an entire movie.
The entire interview was really conveniently transcribed, with Stine providing a variety of behind the scenes particulars, like the truth that (once more, bafflingly) Po was deliberate to be caught in a field for 20 minutes, and why the Livid 5 did not make a lot of an look, so it is value a learn if you happen to’re a Kung Fu Panda fan.