Under vårt besök på San Diego Comic-Con Málaga, träffade vi flera intressanta person från både spel- och filmbranschen, och det är i sistnämnda kategori vi hittar Oscars-vinnande animationsexperten Mark Andrews, som bland annat var med och skrev manus samt regisserade Brave.
Den gamla Pixar-klassikern från 2012 fick mycket uppmärksamhet för prinsessan Meridas eldröda hår, vilket liksom levde sitt eget liv. I diskussionen med Andrews gled diskussionen bland annat in på just detta, han sade:
"It all starts with the character design and what story we're telling with the character. That big, red, vibrant hair that's exploding is her soul, is her spirit.
Her mother or society at that time wanted to contain it and put it under the headdress or tie it up in some way. So we needed that big, bountiful hair. But now we're in animation and we need to move it. What is that going to take? Is it straight hair? No, it's this big, curly hair."
Det här krävde såklart en hel del tekniskt kunnande eftersom hår är svårt att animera, och i synnerhet en sådan jättelik... låt oss kalla det frisyr. Andrews förklarade utmaningarna:
"Our technical team, our TDs, we worked with some very incredibly smart people. This was a huge technological challenge because we had done hair before, but we hadn't done anything this big. What does it take?
That was millions and millions and millions of strands of hair that we had to tell the simulation program, how does that behave? We studied hair, we looked at hair, we got wigs, what happens when it's wet, what happens when it's dry, how bouncy is it? We write our own programs and tweak those technical knobs just to dial it in so that it just looks natural."
Och just det var tydligen det uttalade målet. Håret må ha varit omfattande och bångstyrigt, men tanken var ändå att det skulle kännas trovärdigt:
"My concern was just be natural, just look natural, just have gravity affect it the way it's going to look at it. If the hair falls into the face, it falls into the face because that's what happens. We wanted it to feel organic and look alive by itself.
Every single shot that Meredith is in with her hair, that was a triumph to get on screen."
Reagerade du själv på prinsessan Meridas vildvuxna hårman när du såg Brave första gången?
