In “Big Hero 6,” the latest 3-D animated film from Disney, the titular hero is a robot — but not the hard, metal kind most people associate with the word. It’s a soft robot, a sort of vaguely human-shaped bag of gas. Sound far-fetched? Turns out there’s more than a little science at work here.
The American actor is in talks to join a remake of the 1977 film combining animation and live action, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The “big” secret behind the film’s tech is Disney’s Hyperion rendering system, Disney’s Chief Technology Officer, Andy Hendrickson said. The system allows animators to project light, to reflect light, to refract light, to create realistic shadows, and to show varying levels of light/dark contrast for objects and characters.
FAL Food and Beverages, a FAL Group brand, today announced that its newly launched Coco Joy Kids brand will feature characters from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ comedy action-adventure film Big Hero 6.
Coco Joy Kids is all-natural fruit-flavored, pure coconut water for kids, containing no added sugar, preservatives, or concentrates. Coco Joy Kids products featuring Big Hero 6 characters will be available at retail starting October 25, 2014. The red/white and silver 8.4 fl. Oz. (250mL) slim-line cans will be packaged as 6-packs and, in partnership with retailers, Coco Joy Kids will offer a “Buy 6 for $6 and receive $6 off children’s movie tickets” promotion.
“Coco Joy Kids is thrilled to work with Disney once again—this time in conjunction with Big Hero 6,” said Tim Xenos, CEO of FAL Food and Beverages, a FAL Group brand. “Our brand launch for Coco Joy Kids this summer was a great success, and we’re excited to share this new opportunity with our retail partners in advance of the Big Hero 6 premiere. Coco Joy Kids offers a new, healthier choice to parents and their children with a refreshing, tasty beverage featuring Disney characters that children will adore.”
Coco Joy Kids and its sister brand Coco Joy offer a new approach to garnering the health benefits of coconut water. Unlike other coconut water beverages that mix the fatty, milky juice of aged brown coconuts with green coconut water, Coco Joy Kids and Coco Joy are made purely from fresh, young green coconuts from Southeast Asia. Compared to leading coconut water brands, Coco Joy products have fewer calories, less sodium, no added sugar and no preservatives, offering healthy hydration for people of all ages.
For information on Coco Joy Kids, visit www.CocoJoyKidsUSA.com and the Coco Joy Facebook page: www.facebook.com/CocoJoyKidsUSA.
For Coco Joy sales and distribution inquiries, please contact info@falfoodandbeverages.com.
FAL Food and Beverages supports healthy habits through “Flavor & Life,” offering products with high-quality, natural ingredients to promote a healthier lifestyle. For more information about FAL Food and Beverages, visit www.FALHealthyBeverages.com.
Coco Joy Kids is a high quality beverage that meets Disney Nutrition Guidelines. For information on the Guidelines and the company’s healthy living commitment, visit www.thewaltdisneycompany.com/mohl.
Movies like The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy are notorious for embedding small, winking references to those familiar with Marvel comics lore — and even Big Hero 6, the company’s upcoming animated film, is getting in on the fun.
Before the directors of the new Walt Disney Animation movie “Big Hero 6″ settled on their story, they created the world in which it’s set: a jammed, vibrant place called San Fransokyo.
John Carter, the 2012 science fiction movie which bombed at the box office, cost the Walt Disney Company $306.6 million to make according to recently-released documents.
After promotional photos and a teaser trailer, we already had a fairly decent idea of what Disney’s film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s postmodern Brothers Grimm mash-up Into the Woods would look like.
Join a monster of a party with the Disney Movies Anywhere premiere of PARTY CENTRAL. The Disney•Pixar short is now available to view for free for the first time, and reunites everyone’s favorite monsters, Mike and Sulley, for another hilarious adventure. Download the Disney Movies Anywhere app for iPhone or iPad to watch Party Central now, for a limited time!
Featuring Billy Crystal as Mike, John Goodman as Sulley and directed by Pixar’s Kelsey Mann, Party Central features Mike and Sulley’s return to Monsters University for a fun-filled weekend with their Oozma Kappa fraternity brothers. The gang is throwing their first party, but no one’s showing up. Luckily for them, Mike and Sulley have come with a plan to make sure “Party Central” is the most epic party the school has ever seen.
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Feel free to use this list to impress people at your next gathering. You’re welcome.
1. Anna (Frozen) is the first Disney princess to have a duet with a villain.
2. Yen Sid, the sorcerer in Fantasia, is just “Disney” spelled backwards.
