The filmmakers were soon guiding a project that explored a “watercolor, storybook CG-visual style” — one that combined some of Disney’s oldest visual signatures with techniques developed in more experimental animated shorts, says Lee, the Oscar-winning chief creative officer at Disney Animation.
Simultaneously, the writers sought a narrative that could pop with originality while nodding to the nostalgic types of fairy tales that Disney has been spinning since nearly its founding.
The result, an animated musical titled…
