Trivia about Character Names:
1. The character Yen Sid, the sorcerer in Fantasia, is made with "Disney" spelled backwards.
2. We never get to know the real names of the characters we know as Prince Charming, who appears in Cinderella, or the queen in Sleeping Beauty.
Regarding Voices:
3. The vultures in The Jungle Book were initially supposed to be voiced by the Beatles but ended up being voiced by J. Pat O'Malley, Digby Wolfe, Lord Tim Hudson, and Chad Stuart instead.
4. In The Lion King, the lions' roars are not dubbed by actors but by tigers because the filmmakers thought the roar of a lion was not big or loud enough.
5. John Ratzenberger is the only actor who has provided a voice for a character in every single full-length Pixar film ever made, from Toy Story to Inside Out 2.
The Characters' Creation:
6. As many know, much research was conducted for Flynn Rider's character design, but few know that Aladdin, one of the most beloved and attractively designed princes in all Disney films, was modeled after Tom Cruise's appearance. Originally, he was supposed to be inspired by Michael J. Fox, considering the great success he had had in recent years.
7. Sulley, one of the main characters of Monsters, Inc., has over 2 million individual hairs. This meant that it took 10-12 hours to render a single frame because of his 2,320,413 hairs. Another complicated character, perhaps one of the most complex developed by the animation house, is Hank, the orange octopus from Finding Dory. He was so difficult to render that it would have been technically impossible to realize him for the first Nemo film.
8. Aurora, the sleeping beauty, is the princess with the least amount of lines and screen time in a Disney film. Rapunzel is the princess drawn with the biggest eyes and Pocahontas is the first and only one with a visible tattoo.
9. Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film in history to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, and to this day, only three such films exist (including Up and Toy Story 3). Toy Story, however, is the first animated film in Oscar history to be nominated for Best Screenplay, as there was no award for Best Animated Feature at the time, which only came after 2000.
10. A113 is a recurring theme in all Pixar films. It’s like an Easter egg that always appears, and many fans enjoy searching for the number in more or less hidden frames in various films. It's a reference to the animation room at California Institute of the Arts, where many Pixar employees attended school before working there.
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