Animators had to attend flight school

The credibility of the movie How to Train Your Dragon rested on the flight sequences, so during production each animator embarked upon this programme in which they would study flight physics and the movements of different airborne creatures. After graduation, they each even received a diploma.

Not one but seven honorary Oscar awards

Though Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs didn’t win its Oscar nomination for best original score, Disney was given an honorary award to recognise the feature’s innovation in filmmaking. Disney didn’t only receive one statue. He received one regular-sized statue and seven miniature Oscars to denote the film’s seven dwarfs.

Did you notice the hands of cartoon characters?

The hands of the cartoon characters never had the fifth finger, they always had four and unbelievably, four fingers did not cause any visual discomfort among viewers. But the absence of the fifth finger on the hands of cartoon characters, saved several millions of dollars to animation studios, since this decision cut the time for the frame-by-frame rendering of characters.

What does Bugs Bunny say?

Do you also sometimes find it challenging to understand what Bugs Bunny says? Well, this was all done deliberately. The creators decided he should speak the mix of Bronx and Brooklyn dialects to add more personality to this character.

Published in Dawn, Young World, May 13th, 2023