Once Upon A Studio producers Yvette Merino and Brad Simonsen discuss working with their Disney heroes and tease a Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney moment.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Walt Disney Animation Studio is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a one-of-a-kind short, Once Upon A Studio bringing together characters from all across the studio's legacy. When the Walt Disney Animation Studios employees leave for the day, Mickey and Minnie escape to take their pictures on the wall. They set out on a quest to bring together 500 other animated characters for a group picture.
Yvette Merino: Yeah, I mean that was the exciting part of making this film is like, "Oh, we can get characters who don't always get the spotlight." I have a young daughter and so she knows very well who Ariel is, who Belle is and all of the big characters, but there are fans out there that love Treasure Planet.
And then as that evolved, we were like, "Okay, now they're interacting and now they're living in this world that we live in. How do we make sure that that works?" So we went to great pains to do test shots where we had CG characters and 2D characters of those different eras interacting and then really meeting using the production designer to say, "Hey, this is what we need to do. I think this is the type of highlight that we get.
If you have Mother Gothel back there who is, if you watch, rolling her eyes and just annoyed at it all and all the different characters, and what I love is they all keep their true personality to who it is. Even with Baymax coming in at the end, it's just so innocent I'm like, oh, "I'm going too." And so it's one of my favorite scenes.
In regards to the recording of who were our heroes, Yvette and I both have our experiences as we were recording these where our hearts just kind of flew out of our chest. Mine actually was Winnie the Pooh. We got to show them the short and they got to react, so we got to have a moment with them where they saw it and relived this experience with us. That was incredibly profound and meaningful, and then we got to watch them perform and it's like watching your heroes. So it was amazing.
Yvette Merino: Yeah, I think it was a choice that Dan and Trent make, looking at all the different histories of Mickey, and this one felt like it was a good one. It's from Mickey's birthday party where they kind of jump out of the thing.
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