A latest Q&A with the co-director of Kung Fu Panda 4 has revealed that, for some motive, an early model of the movie was deliberate to be a reside motion, animation hybrid.
It is actually exhausting to tug off reside motion and animation hybrid movies – Who Framed Roger Rabbit might be the one one to really do it efficiently to today. It’s important 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 lately launched sequel, lately took half within the Kung Fu Panda Reddit neighborhood’s Discord server, the place she answered an entire vary of questions in regards to the movie. And one of many weirdest revelations is well the truth that, earlier than she was introduced on, the movie would have featured reside motion people in a largely animated movie.
“The unique story… truly had Zhen and The Chameleon be human (she was truly 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 alleged to be hybrid reside motion/animation, that’s why there have been people. For some motive earlier than I got here on, the management workforce 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.”
