–Pro wrestlers and football players were used as model body types for Maui, whose physique is generally displayed with minimal clothing. To depict it in the naturalistic way they wanted, they needed to create new technical tools to animate hair. –Everyone in the movie, men and women, has long curly hair which is a big part of the Oceanic culture. –A figure of many legends throughout Polynesia, Maui was perceived by John Musker to be a superhero with trickster elements which he felt would play well into a epic and comedic adventure story. “Maui’s Mythology” saw panelists Hyrum Osmond* (Head of Animation), Mack Kablan (Animation Supervisor, Maui), Eric Goldberg (2D Animator), and Carlos Cabral (Head of Characters and Tech Anim) discuss the various influences that went into creating the look and persona of the demigod Maui.
So we’ll use those colors as theatrical devices.” It also gets your eye to where you want to look. It’s a very special place, and it’s all caused by erosion–it’s all natural erosion that causes all this.”Īdolph Lusinsky on the challenges of theatrically lighting water: “A photograph really doesn’t capture the color of water very well in the first place…it also doesn’t capture that memory for sure, of what you remember….We would kind of push the color to what we kind of remember it to be…We push the blue in front, the green water in back above Moana, so it gives a richer look to it, but also is also part of the theatricality, the cinematography of the image. So say a Chief from another village comes by and sees this, and you know immediately someone very very important lives here. So you get very gradual falloff on the edges and wide edges where reefs will grow.”Īndy Harkness on developing the specifics of Moana’s home island Motonui: “Motonui is not historically a true, actual village, so everything built and designed is inspired by the things we were told….The four basic things are the Point, the Pass of course–the Pass is where they breach the reef–the Point is where they come into the inlet, to the village reef, the Place, which is the village itself, the River, which is their freshwater source, and a Peak, which to them, which I thought was really fascinating…it’s almost like an architectural element. That produces a very different island profile than one you will find elsewhere in the world. Helen’s exploded, whereas in the Pacific, they tend to have the ones that just sort of dribble…lava constantly, so you can walk right up to them and not get killed. Ian Gooding on constructing an authentic and distinctive island environment: “The kinds of geology they have in that area is very different from the Caribbean…We have, in the Caribbean, the kind of volcanoes that explode, kind of like Mount St. While learning about Polynesian culture and people, the team collected a multidisciplinary group to use as a resource they nicknamed “The Oceanic Story Trust.” The road to creating the world of “Moana” started in multiple research trips to different islands of Oceana. Creative Executive), Ian Gooding (Production Designer), Andy Harkness (Art Director, Environments & Color), and Adolph Lusinsky (Director of Cinematography, Lighting) spoke on the challenges of creating a suitably beautiful and unique setting for “Moana.” In “The Islands of Moana,” Jessica Julius (Sr. "When we look at photos of Polynesian men and women from the last 100 to 200 years, most of our people were not overweight and this negative stereotype of Maui is just not acceptable - no thanks to Disney,” she wrote on her Facebook page.As the release date for “Moana” rapidly approaches, we continue our look at the film’s development with presentations by the filmmakers. Manukau East MP, Jenny Salesa, has also spoken on social media criticising the representation of Maui.
#Pes 2011 soundtrack full#
Listen to the full interview with Will 'Ilolahia on Waateanews.
#Pes 2011 soundtrack movie#
“Obesity is a new phenomena because of the First World food that has been stuffed down our throat.”ĭespite the look of the character, he said he hoped the final release of the movie in November would show Maui as his true character. “This depiction of Maui being obese is typical American stereotyping in regard to how they see our people. “All our different cultures have Maui in our folklore, and he has been depicted as a person of strength, magnitude and a person of a godly nature. “Well, I think we all know at the time of the existence of Maui that obesity didn’t exist,” he told Waateanews. In an interview with Waateanews, the chair of the Pacific Islands Media Association (PIMA) Will 'Ilolahia said it was typical American stereotyping. The animated character of Maui in the up-coming film Moana has been referred to as “obese”. AUCKLAND ( Waateanews/ Pacific Media Watch): The depiction of Pacific and Māori folklore demigod Maui in a new Disney movie has received controversial debate with some critics saying it enforces negative stereotypes.