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My name is Alex Kupershmidt.

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I work as an animator at Walt Disney
Animation Studios,

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and I've been with Disney since 1982.

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I was a Lead Animator on Stitch in <i>Lilo and Stitch</i>.

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I wanted to be an animator
since I was a very little kid.

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When I was in college
I had an opportunity to see a Disney film,

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which was <i>The Three Caballeros</i>.
I thought that's the studio I wanted to work at.

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He was designed to look very, very appealing,
almost like a stuffed toy.

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But he moves more like a lizard,

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which is to say, very quick and very unexpected.

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He's incredibly unpredictable.

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At the core it's a story about a family.

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I think that's what audiences
find most appealing about the film.

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My experience comes from the traditional Disney
hand-drawn animation,

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which stressed different fundamentals
about how things should move,

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how they should look with maximum appeal,
the value of silhouette, the value of clear form.

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The first project I work in technical animation
for was <i>Zootopia</i>.

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Animating overlap or how, for example,
Nick's tie supposed to move

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I must say in all of the work
that I do for technical

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animation is inspired by prior Disney work.

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From <i>Pinocchio </i>to <i>Fantasia </i>to <i>Sleeping Beauty,</i>

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that sort of kind of translates into our language today.

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Here it is.

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Just a little tuff of fur on his chest.

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That's pretty much it.

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Ta-da!