{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "oh man I forgot there was a tiger in Disney\u2019s Aladdin, I thought the parrot and the carpet filled up the \u201cnonhuman sidekick\u201d...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/185467731473/", "html": "<p>oh man I forgot there was a tiger in Disney\u2019s Aladdin, I thought the parrot and the carpet filled up the \u201cnonhuman sidekick\u201d slots</p><p>when I was in LA I heard an animator give a good answer to \u201cwhy do all Disney characters have only one parent\u201d, it was that putting a voiced character in a Disney movie required like 3 character designers and a wooden model-maker working for 3 months to hand over to a team of 3 journeyman keyframe artists and like 15 apprentice in-betweeners who <i>only drew that character</i>, and it was really a drain and if they could use only one character to represent \u201cparents\u201d to the protagonists that was more efficient</p><p>but I mean, they bothered to put that tiger in</p><p>I dunno, maybe it was a\u00a0\u201cget to\u201d thing and at the 1990 staff meeting there were enough animators eager to spend a whole year drawing a big cat<br/></p>"}