While at SDCC2023, Screen Rant spoke with Disney animation legend Andreas Deja and composer Fabrizio Mancinelli about their original short film Mushka, the beauty of 2D animation, and their influences:
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Mushka is an animated short film that follows a young Ukrainian girl, Sarah, who finds and raises a tiger cub, whom she names Mushka, in the 1970s. However, as her Mushka grows, Sarah discovers that it isn't safe anymore, with people planning to kill and sell his body.
Andreas Deja: Well, I never really left 2D animation. I spent 30 years at Disney as a supervising animator there. And then, being on my own, it being in my DNA, I had to continue doing this kind of art form. There's still room for change and expressing myself differently but I still wanted to draw my own project so- Fabrizio Mancinelli: So first of all, I wanted to say one thing because we all say short, but it was long. When we started talking, it was 7 minutes.
So the whole idea started with me loving animals. And I thought, "What would be an animal that would be fun to animate that you haven't animated yet?" You got some experience with big cats, Lion King and all that research we had done there. Maybe you can bring that to a new level for a tiger which are beautiful animals with all their design and stripes and all that.
So my friend Micah is one of those freewheeling all round artists. He does architecture and he paints murals and he writes novels and all of that. And I said, "Maybe you can help me flesh this out," and he did and when I read this screenplay, it was like a novel and I really liked the tone in it. I said, "Okay. It's not necessarily a comedy but I liked the melancholy tone in it.
When they get angry, there's certain things happening in their face and when they are bored, there's also things that happen. So there's a range that I needed to explore. And I remember doing a couple of sheets of drawings, of doodles where I was trying to find out how far can I go with a tiger's expression before it becomes human looking. So you explore that and then you say, "That goes too far. This I can do. This I can't do." Walk that fine line.
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