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I. Brief intrduction Zootopia is an animated feature film produced by Disney Animation Studios, created an unsurpassable miracle in 2016 and be loved by all the ages people all around the world. Passed such a long period, it has always occupy a particular room in my heart since the first release. This film tasks itself with teaching kids early on about the harm of stereotypes and prejudice, using animals as a stand-in for all sorts of bias. Though kids probably won't grasp its real-life influences, they'll get the gist. It is incontestable that it had all the ingredients of a blockbuster movie with drama, thrills and maybe even a love story intriguingly. Zootopia sets in a world solely with various species of animals, separated from natural …show more content…

To get inspiration for the character of rookie rabbit police officer Judy Hopps, the filmmakers not only visited a wildlife rescue center, they even had live rabbits in the studio, and observing those real-life rabbit really did help the animators. For instance, they noticed rabbits’ ears often turn towards a sound before they do, and how and when their noses twitch. The filmmakers wanted to make sure that each of the movie’s animals was based on their real-world behavior. So, they spent 18 months researching a variety of animals, finding out how they interact, socialize, and build communities in the wild. They spoke to experts from all over the world and visited Disney’s Animal Kingdom, San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. They even spent two weeks in Kenya investigating all about animal personality and behavior. The filmmakers’ research indeed helped them decide which roles to give to each animal in the world of Zootopia. For example, they found out that cape buffaloes are tough and relentless, so they opted to make Zootopia’s chief of police a buffalo. Besides, during their trip to Africa, the filmmakers noticed that whenever they drove by a herd of buffaloes, the buffaloes would stop what they were doing and fix them with their gaze, which gave the animators the idea to give Chief Bogo that same stare when he looks at Nick Wilde. What’s more, for the scene where Nick Wilde touches the big tuft of wool on Bellwether’s head to see how soft it is, the artists had to create new technology as touching fur is normally something they tend to avoid as it’s especially complex in computer-generated animation. Speaking of fur, each mouse we see in Zootopia has around 400,000 strands of hair, which is the same number of strands that made up Elsa’s hair in Frozen and a giraffe has 9.2 million hairs. For the design of

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