So we gave him different configurations in each of these tentacles.

We kind of look at it like we're building animation that's a race car and we're giving it to them to drive. What you can't see is all of these tentacles were setup slightly differently. So this is the really early version of Hank. This is kind of what the art department gives us, kind of a bit of a blue To make an octopus move around and squish and squash, yet make it specific enough that animators can grab any part of him and move correctly, is a problem of simplifying, breaking it apart into individual pieces and putting it back together again.īut there's a complexity of motion here, an aspesisity, in terms of how it interacts with the ground, how it can connect at any point and move.

Just figuring out how to create a new type of curve that the tentacles can use. We have to engineer the puppet basically that the animators use to create the performance.Īctually an engineer worked on Hank for about six months, I think.

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