Pixars kommande film, Coco, handlar om en liten musikalisk (mexikansk) pojke som finner sig själv fångad i de dödas rike och mer eller mindre måste sjunga sig därifrån. Naturligtvis kommer vi att få se en hel del sydamerikanska skelett som hoppar omkring och ser allmänt Grim Fandango-mysiga ut och nu har Pixars animatör samt "Character Designer" Daniel Arriaga pratat lite om svårigheten i att skapa dessa figurer och ge dem riktiga känslor.
"You lose all of the things that give us character. Your nose, your eyes, your mouth, your muscle tissue, everything about it. And in the end, we all look the same. So, how do you get character from that and how do you make variations of that?"
Pixar fortsatte intervjun med att förklara hur de gick till väga för att skapa perfekt atmosfär i "De dödas rike" utan att skrämma slag på ungarna i publiken:
"I think a lot of it was learning the spirit of the holiday where, if you could kind of go down into the thematics behind it -- and this idea of remembrance, and these are real people who you loved in life -- then all of the sudden this doesn't really lend itself to a morbid understanding as like a familiarity and a relationship to characters and people. So, knowing that, we wanted Miguel's interactions with these skeletons to be interactions with family members. That was really kind of a guiding impulse in terms of tone and design. We knew that we really wanted them to have eyes and to have the power of expression of eyes in the skeletons, which you don't see in a lot of films. But because we needed them to connect and emote and smile, and so much of that connection that you have with a person comes from the eyes. So, all of these things were developed so that in the design, you knew that this was a place full of characters and full of fun and not anything off-putting or morbid."
Coco går upp på bio den 22:a november. Kommer du att se den?