Creativity and Innovation Take the Helm Aboard Disney Dream Oct 30, 2009
Both venues offer magical interactions with the animated characters such as Crush, the sea turtle from the Disney-Pixar motion picture "Finding Nemo" and Stitch, the mischievous alien from "Lilo and Stitch." The characters chat, play and joke with children in live, unrehearsed conversations from their digital undersea and intergalactic environments via 103-inch plasma screens. Chill-Out Zones for Tweens and Teens. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Disney's Andreas Deja on Animation ... Oct 7, 2009
Disney's first animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs coming out on Blu-Ray October 6th (look for an upcoming review) not only helped inspire him to make animation his life's work, but he has carried specific lessons from that film into his work on modern animation such as Lilo and Stitch, The Lion King and the upcoming The Princess and the Frog. In of this interview, Deja talked about his favourite sequence from the film, and who influenced the art of Snow White. (Suite101.com)
Animator Andreas Deja on Snow White... Oct 7, 2009
Disney Artist Worked on Lilo and Stitch, Princess and the Frog ... But, by 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, he was a supervising animator, responsible for designing the look of such modern-day characters as Jafar from Aladdin, Scar from The Lion King and Lilo from Lilo and Stitch ... Some of us actually talked with him years later, when we worked on Lilo and Stitch. (Suite101.com)
Quiet, funky Kauai town Hanapepe was the model for Disney's ‘Lilo &Stitch' Mar 3, 2009
Yes, "Home of Lilo and Stitch" is painted on the side of the abandoned and decaying Aloha Theater, with its ALOHA neon sign begging for restoration. But outside of a few posters, there's no overt attempt to capitalize on the Disney franchise. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
