Moana [DVD] [2016]

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Walt Disney Animation Amps Up Production With New Vancouver Studio, First Project Is 'Moana' Musical Series". During early development, the filmmakers considered the possibility of making the film with hand-drawn traditional animation, but only a few early animation tests were made in that style. During the 2015 D23 Expo's panel for Disney's slate of upcoming animated films, Moana's last name was given as "Waialiki", but that name was not retained in the final film. Moana (also known as Vaiana [4] or Oceania [5] in some markets) is a 2016 American animated musical fantasy action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

The filmmakers have also suggested that three-dimensional computer animation is well-suited to the "beautiful sculpturing" of the faces of the people of the South Pacific. If your little one is after a new bedtime buddy then this large Pua soft toy is the perfect companion.Tui and Sina, Moana's father and mother, try to keep her away from the ocean to prepare her to become the island's chief.

Wai Chee Dimock, writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, compared the ocean in Moana to the one in "The Water Baby", a short story by Jack London, saying that both are animated: one, by the tension between digital and analog animation, and the other, by the tension between an encroaching future and a past in retreat still capable of pushing back. She takes up her role as chief and wayfinder, leading her people as they resume voyaging, accompanied by Maui. com is an Introducer Appointed Representative of Pay4Later Limited, trading as Deko, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 728646).

The first draft focused on Moana as the sole daughter in a family with "five or six brothers", [23] in which gender played into the story.