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Fun Facts about Treasure Planet, Disney's Best Animated Deep Cut

  Treasure Planet is my all-time favorite Disney deep cut. Adapted from the classic Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, it is one of those underrated Disney gems that hold some interesting facts. The movie has the record for the most expensive traditional animated film because of its extensive use of Disney's Deep Canva technique. According to Retrojunk.com is the technique that "allows a two-dimensional character to move freely through a painterly 3-dimensional computer-generated environment." The animated film was such a passion project for Ron Clements and John Musker, two of Disney's most successful Disney directors and legends. For Treasure Planet, they waited years to make it. They pitched the movie before making The Little Mermaid, Hercules, and Aladdin. When their then-boss still did not give them the green light to make the movie as promised, they angrily went to the higher-ups, and that's when they got their wish. Another fun fact is that they based Ji...

Disney To Release Raya and The Last Dragon: A Fantasy Animated Movie with Major South East Asian Representation amid Pandemic and Sociopolitical Turmoil Throughout the Region.

  It's safe to say that only a few countries are more than okay amid the pandemic (we are looking at you New Zealand) but as the US, and some Eastern European and South American countries, South East Asian countries have revealed deep-seated problems with their governments.     The world is exposed to the mass protests in Thailand and recently in Myanmar. And it is common knowledge that ASEAN doesn't have the most high-rated democratic reputation across the globe. There is also isn't much unity sociopolitical and authoritarian governments are heavily influenced by China (e.g. Philippines, the military coup in Myanmar). All of the SEA countries are deeply threatened by China because of their territorial stealing.    The SEA countries consist of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Timor Leste. The animators of Disney visited some of these countries for their research in making their ...