"Tangled"

Recently I watched the latest Disney film Tangled and since we have been looking at animation this term, I watched it from a technical point of view, thinking about the principles of animation. The film uses CGI yet still keeps the orignal disney drawing style seen in older disney films such as Snow White and Cinderella.

The hair in the film must have been extremely difficult,not only to work out how it would move and flow, but then to actually animate it.

The directors were still unsure about whether the length of rapunzels hair would work as late as January 2010. However, an improved version of a hair simlation programme (Dynamic Wires, originally developed for "Bolt") along with other techniques, solved these problems in March 2010. This made challenges, such as making hair believably float in water, easier and quicker for the animators.