A Warm and Fuzzy Future World
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Steve Anderson
Robh Ruppel
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The plot revolves around Lewis, an orphan boy genius and inventor who decides to uncover the identity of his parents. He is taken to a streamlined, utopian future by the time-traveling Wilbur Robinson to uncover his past and outsmart the sinister Bowler Hat Guy, all the while encountering numerous memorable friends along the way. To create this fantasy, it took Disney’s Burbank studio more than four years and about 200 artisans, including art director Robh Ruppel (Mulan, Treasure Planet), to see this project out to its completion.
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“We started out with inspirational boards and did a ton of research, and because I was actually trained as an industrial designer, I know a lot of stuff first hand,” says Ruppel, who led the teams to design everything in the film from the wardrobes to the lighting to the dazzling futuristic city. “We looked at industrial designers who defined the look of streamlined moderne, like from the World’s Fair of ’39. It was more aeronautical than art deco, back when people were visualizing a grand future with amazing technology and flying cars. We just made that into a reality.” Ruppel was inspired by artists like Raymond Loewy, Henry Deifus and Harold Van Doren, as well as cinematographers Vittorio Storaro and Caleb Dechanel, not to mention the artistic collaboration from author/illustrator William Joyce himself. |
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