1 00:00:12,471 --> 00:00:15,061 We're celebrating Cinderella's 70th anniversary this year. 2 00:00:15,140 --> 00:00:19,100 And today they're gonna create an animation cel of Cinderella. 3 00:00:21,563 --> 00:00:23,823 What better way to celebrate Year of the Mouse 4 00:00:23,899 --> 00:00:25,779 than with Mickey and Minnie, and Guo Pei. 5 00:00:29,571 --> 00:00:32,571 We're up in the Verdugo Hills above Burbank, 6 00:00:32,658 --> 00:00:35,948 and we're gonna check out the motion-activated wildlife camera. 7 00:00:44,378 --> 00:00:45,978 - This looks close. - That one is better. 8 00:00:46,046 --> 00:00:49,086 - Lashes and eyes in black. - In black. Okay. 9 00:00:49,174 --> 00:00:52,554 We're celebrating Cinderella's 70th anniversary this year. 10 00:00:52,636 --> 00:00:56,056 And today, we're gonna create an animation cel of Cinderella. 11 00:00:56,139 --> 00:00:59,809 Since the start, we use the same tools, the same inks... 12 00:00:59,893 --> 00:01:02,813 We might be the only studio that still uses this method. 13 00:01:02,896 --> 00:01:05,976 It's in the Ink & Paint department that Walt Disney's stories 14 00:01:06,066 --> 00:01:07,686 were brought to life in full color. 15 00:01:07,776 --> 00:01:11,446 It's incredible that we're still doing it. 16 00:01:16,034 --> 00:01:17,704 Come see. Fox was able to pull 17 00:01:17,786 --> 00:01:20,576 some reference materials for the Cinderella piece. 18 00:01:20,664 --> 00:01:23,214 And here's a reproduction copy of the background. 19 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:25,629 That give us what we need to work with? 20 00:01:25,711 --> 00:01:30,381 Yeah, we'll start choosing the colors for the inks and the paints. 21 00:01:30,465 --> 00:01:33,675 I see we have some special effects with the airbrush there. 22 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,100 We do things the exact same way that Walt did back in the day. 23 00:01:38,182 --> 00:01:42,982 Inking and painting cels that are used for collectible purposes now. 24 00:01:43,061 --> 00:01:44,731 - That looks pretty close. - Yeah. 25 00:01:44,813 --> 00:01:47,573 Okay, that's a sunflash six. 26 00:01:49,151 --> 00:01:51,861 This department had a hundred inkers upstairs, 27 00:01:52,362 --> 00:01:55,622 a hundred painters downstairs, a huge paint lab. 28 00:01:55,699 --> 00:01:59,869 Made organic pigment paint that was Disney's secret formula. 29 00:01:59,953 --> 00:02:04,003 Every second of film is 24 cels that are hand-inked, hand-painted. 30 00:02:04,583 --> 00:02:06,883 Some animated features had upwards 31 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:11,340 of 300,000 individually hand-inked and hand-painted cels, 32 00:02:11,423 --> 00:02:13,933 so that's why it could take years to make a feature. 33 00:02:14,593 --> 00:02:18,103 The hand-inking, hand-painting process 34 00:02:18,180 --> 00:02:20,600 that got animation started back in the '20s, 35 00:02:20,682 --> 00:02:22,732 we keep that tradition alive here. 36 00:02:23,477 --> 00:02:27,647 We have paints in this room that have been here longer than I have, 37 00:02:27,731 --> 00:02:29,361 and I've been here 25 years. 38 00:02:29,441 --> 00:02:35,411 These acrylics were used on Little Mermaid and they're still ready to go. 39 00:02:36,782 --> 00:02:38,662 Every special color we've ever done, 40 00:02:38,742 --> 00:02:41,372 we'll have a formula for that particular color, 41 00:02:41,453 --> 00:02:43,463 whether it be wings on Tinker Bell, 42 00:02:43,539 --> 00:02:46,749 Beast's jacket in the ballroom scene of Beauty and the Beast. 43 00:02:46,834 --> 00:02:49,254 And actually, we're doing a gray four today, 44 00:02:49,336 --> 00:02:51,166 which is Cinderella's dress. 45 00:02:52,297 --> 00:02:54,297 What I'm gonna do is just add a few drops. 46 00:03:05,894 --> 00:03:08,114 Okay, so the camera light's on. 47 00:03:08,188 --> 00:03:10,568 These date back to the Snow White era. 48 00:03:14,194 --> 00:03:17,664 And I can see I'm definitely off a little bit, so I'm... 49 00:03:17,739 --> 00:03:19,369 Again, gonna go back to my bucket. 50 00:03:19,992 --> 00:03:23,912 All this paint tends to clump up in the bottom of that bottle. 51 00:03:23,996 --> 00:03:28,456 So I'll strain it using very fine mesh and make it as pristine as possible. 52 00:03:28,542 --> 00:03:31,342 Either give it to the artist or put it on the shelf, 53 00:03:31,420 --> 00:03:32,920 ready for the next project. 54 00:03:34,631 --> 00:03:35,801 So the inking part is 55 00:03:35,883 --> 00:03:40,853 transferring the animators' pencil drawing onto celluloid. 56 00:03:40,929 --> 00:03:43,469 You have the animators' pencil drawing at the bottom 57 00:03:43,557 --> 00:03:45,727 and then you set the cel on top. 58 00:03:45,809 --> 00:03:47,479 And these are my instructions here. 59 00:03:47,561 --> 00:03:50,611 And these indicate what lines to do with what colors. 60 00:03:50,689 --> 00:03:55,649 And then you transfer those lines onto the cel with traditional dip pen. 61 00:03:57,070 --> 00:03:59,030 So I try not to think about anything. 62 00:03:59,907 --> 00:04:02,577 Sometimes I hold my breath when I'm doin' a line. 63 00:04:04,494 --> 00:04:07,754 Walt wanted to create something different. 64 00:04:07,831 --> 00:04:10,331 A lot of the techniques, they were invented 65 00:04:10,417 --> 00:04:12,917 in the middle of producing Cinderella. 66 00:04:13,837 --> 00:04:17,467 The creation of thick and thin lines on the hair 67 00:04:17,549 --> 00:04:19,549 and the use of different colors. 68 00:04:19,635 --> 00:04:22,215 Other studios only used black lines, 69 00:04:22,304 --> 00:04:25,434 but Walt Disney wanted to add a different dimension. 70 00:04:28,393 --> 00:04:31,523 Walking into that room with all the color 71 00:04:31,605 --> 00:04:34,775 and the walls with all the color chips... 72 00:04:34,858 --> 00:04:36,148 I love color. 73 00:04:36,735 --> 00:04:39,445 I'm not wearing color, but I don't have to wear color here 74 00:04:39,530 --> 00:04:41,370 because there's so much color all around. 75 00:04:42,491 --> 00:04:45,991 One of the big, important things is to mix it. 76 00:04:46,078 --> 00:04:47,788 You're constantly mixing. 77 00:04:48,455 --> 00:04:51,875 Like I was destined to be an Ink & Paint artist. 78 00:04:51,959 --> 00:04:54,999 When I was a child, I used to go into my mom's vanity, 79 00:04:55,087 --> 00:05:00,427 get into her creams and lotions and mix 'em all together and stir. 80 00:05:00,509 --> 00:05:03,849 She didn't like that very much, but I just love stirring paint. 81 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,850 I'm not going all the way down to the cel. 82 00:05:11,937 --> 00:05:16,687 Just gonna run it along the top and do something called floating. 83 00:05:17,526 --> 00:05:21,816 Basically starting from the center of the area, of the space 84 00:05:23,657 --> 00:05:26,027 and then floating it out to the edge. 85 00:05:27,703 --> 00:05:31,213 You wanna have your paint to be the right consistency. 86 00:05:32,416 --> 00:05:37,496 We're taking from the original animators' drawings 87 00:05:37,588 --> 00:05:40,378 and we're basically 88 00:05:40,465 --> 00:05:44,675 replicating a particular frame from a film. 89 00:05:45,512 --> 00:05:48,392 We're doing this as a piece of fine art now. 90 00:05:53,645 --> 00:05:58,395 Back in production days, they used all types of special effects, 91 00:05:58,483 --> 00:06:02,613 but the main ones were done with airbrush, which we can see here. 92 00:06:02,696 --> 00:06:06,406 The wings, and the veil, the glow on the star, 93 00:06:06,491 --> 00:06:07,991 the glow on the sparkle. 94 00:06:08,619 --> 00:06:11,709 We're going to apply a little airbrush on some of these sparkles here. 95 00:06:15,584 --> 00:06:17,384 So I called everybody together 96 00:06:17,461 --> 00:06:21,131 to see our final prototype for the Cinderella cel. 97 00:06:21,757 --> 00:06:23,547 - It's fantastic. - Looks good to me. 98 00:06:23,634 --> 00:06:25,394 Airbrushing adds a nice touch there. 99 00:06:25,469 --> 00:06:26,679 Perfect. 100 00:06:26,762 --> 00:06:29,312 We have to be perfectionists in our jobs. 101 00:06:29,389 --> 00:06:32,429 These cels, we have so much to owe Walt Disney 102 00:06:32,518 --> 00:06:34,138 and we wanna keep up that tradition 103 00:06:34,228 --> 00:06:37,108 and do things the exact same way that he did it. 104 00:06:37,189 --> 00:06:38,609 All of that goes in 105 00:06:38,690 --> 00:06:42,400 and all you see on the screen is a finished product that's beautiful. 106 00:06:42,486 --> 00:06:46,776 To think that all this was done by hand and... 107 00:06:47,699 --> 00:06:49,739 It really is pretty amazing. 108 00:06:56,041 --> 00:06:58,041 All right, you guys are up next. 109 00:07:00,629 --> 00:07:04,839 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Guo Pei, Mickey and Minnie. 110 00:07:12,724 --> 00:07:15,064 Hey, guys. Hello! 111 00:07:15,853 --> 00:07:17,943 - Hi. - They look great. 112 00:07:18,021 --> 00:07:19,901 Good to see you. 113 00:07:19,982 --> 00:07:21,942 - Good to see you too. - You guys look fantastic. 114 00:07:22,025 --> 00:07:23,235 Yeah. 115 00:07:23,318 --> 00:07:25,198 I'm Trevor Rush. I'm the manager 116 00:07:25,279 --> 00:07:27,449 for costuming in the Disneyland Resort. 117 00:07:27,531 --> 00:07:30,701 I'm here to share our Lunar New Year project with you 118 00:07:30,784 --> 00:07:33,044 and our collaboration with Guo Pei. 119 00:07:36,164 --> 00:07:38,754 Guo Pei is a Chinese couture designer. 120 00:07:38,834 --> 00:07:41,094 She's famous for her embroidery work. 121 00:07:41,170 --> 00:07:44,670 This year being a Year of the Mouse, we've got Mickey and Minnie, 122 00:07:44,756 --> 00:07:49,636 and so, what better way to celebrate that than to have her Chinese culture infused 123 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,270 into something that we will get to share with our guests here at Disneyland. 124 00:08:08,530 --> 00:08:09,530 Hi. 125 00:08:10,991 --> 00:08:11,991 How are you? 126 00:08:15,287 --> 00:08:17,077 Oh! 127 00:09:34,408 --> 00:09:36,788 It's great. 128 00:09:37,995 --> 00:09:39,405 Oh, the coin. Yeah. 129 00:09:47,337 --> 00:09:48,457 Ah! 130 00:09:49,590 --> 00:09:51,050 - Bring the luck. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 131 00:09:51,133 --> 00:09:52,383 And what about the bow? 132 00:09:58,515 --> 00:10:00,305 Great. Wonderful. 133 00:10:19,244 --> 00:10:21,334 Guo Pei, Mickey and Minnie. 134 00:10:50,776 --> 00:10:54,146 Over the years, I fell into this project, 135 00:10:54,238 --> 00:10:55,778 Disney's Animal Kingdom. 136 00:10:56,740 --> 00:10:58,950 That sort of became the epicenter of work, 137 00:10:59,034 --> 00:11:01,954 that's all revolved around wildlife conservation. 138 00:11:02,746 --> 00:11:06,246 And I'm also on the board of the Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy 139 00:11:06,333 --> 00:11:09,503 which works with creating wildlife corridors in these mountains. 140 00:11:10,754 --> 00:11:14,514 I'm up here in the Verdugo Mountains which are right next to Imagineering, 141 00:11:14,591 --> 00:11:16,301 to meet up with Johanna Turner, 142 00:11:16,385 --> 00:11:18,715 who's doing extraordinary work with camera traps 143 00:11:18,804 --> 00:11:21,934 documenting mountain lions right here in these mountains. 144 00:11:29,273 --> 00:11:31,233 Oh, we got a bobcat. 145 00:11:31,316 --> 00:11:34,356 Coyote. Skunk. Guy with a baby. 146 00:11:34,444 --> 00:11:37,614 We're up in the Verdugo Hills above Burbank. 147 00:11:37,698 --> 00:11:40,158 And we're gonna check out some camera traps today. 148 00:11:40,242 --> 00:11:42,202 When I come up, one of the first things I do 149 00:11:42,286 --> 00:11:44,786 is just test that my flashes are still firing. 150 00:11:44,872 --> 00:11:49,542 Camera trapping is a technique to not only observe wildlife 151 00:11:49,626 --> 00:11:51,706 for scientific reasons, data reasons, 152 00:11:51,795 --> 00:11:54,715 but it's now a way to create beautiful images 153 00:11:54,798 --> 00:11:58,298 of animals that people don't normally get to see with their own eyes. 154 00:12:00,470 --> 00:12:01,910 - Hey, there. You must be Joe. - Hey! 155 00:12:01,972 --> 00:12:04,142 How you doing? Yes, indeed. Hi. How you doing? 156 00:12:04,224 --> 00:12:06,024 - Great to meet you. - Pleasure to meet you. 157 00:12:06,101 --> 00:12:08,021 So, I'm really excited to show you 158 00:12:08,103 --> 00:12:10,613 - some of the actual wildlife backyard. - Yeah. 159 00:12:10,689 --> 00:12:12,229 And look where we are. 160 00:12:13,317 --> 00:12:17,067 The Disney Conservation Fund was started a few years before 161 00:12:17,154 --> 00:12:19,454 we opened Disney's Animal Kingdom. 162 00:12:19,531 --> 00:12:21,531 We've grown over the years, to where, now I think 163 00:12:21,617 --> 00:12:25,247 we've disbursed almost $100 million in conservation funding. 164 00:12:26,496 --> 00:12:29,166 You've gotten a couple grants from the Disney Conservation Fund 165 00:12:29,249 --> 00:12:30,879 for the camera trapping program. 166 00:12:30,959 --> 00:12:33,299 Yeah, this is our second year receiving grants. 167 00:12:33,378 --> 00:12:34,758 We're upgrading some gear, 168 00:12:34,838 --> 00:12:39,888 and Barbara with AFC nominated me for the Disney Conservation Heroes. 169 00:12:39,968 --> 00:12:42,138 A Conservation Hero is someone 170 00:12:42,221 --> 00:12:45,891 who has done something personal and extraordinary. 171 00:12:45,974 --> 00:12:49,354 Especially people working in this interface, 172 00:12:49,436 --> 00:12:52,056 between the human and the animal world. 173 00:12:52,147 --> 00:12:56,147 This is my beam sensor and this is the camera box. 174 00:12:56,235 --> 00:12:58,695 It must have taken a long time to get this balance 175 00:12:58,779 --> 00:13:01,869 to where the flash doesn't wipe it out, and all of that. 176 00:13:01,949 --> 00:13:03,409 Yeah. A whole lot of it 177 00:13:03,492 --> 00:13:05,082 - is guess work at first. - Yeah. 178 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,290 I started with small commercial trail cameras 179 00:13:07,371 --> 00:13:10,581 that don't give you a lot of detail, but do give you at least the information 180 00:13:10,666 --> 00:13:13,246 of what animal came by and when it came by. 181 00:13:13,335 --> 00:13:16,835 Early on, I thought this might be more than a fun hobby. 182 00:13:16,922 --> 00:13:20,092 It might actually be useful information to someone. 183 00:13:20,175 --> 00:13:22,845 That led me on a path of trying to figure out the best way 184 00:13:22,928 --> 00:13:27,058 to collect some data and also do some public outreach 185 00:13:27,140 --> 00:13:29,350 sharing the excitement that I got 186 00:13:29,434 --> 00:13:32,274 from seeing these animals and making these discoveries. 187 00:13:32,354 --> 00:13:35,904 What Johanna does is not just documentation, they are works of art. 188 00:13:35,983 --> 00:13:40,573 It's that odd harmony where art, science and storytelling come together. 189 00:13:40,654 --> 00:13:43,874 That's very much a Walt Disney Imagineering kind of concern. 190 00:13:43,949 --> 00:13:46,539 - Coyote's pretty cool. - Yeah, that's a nice shot. 191 00:13:46,618 --> 00:13:48,788 Although, he's a little dim. 192 00:13:48,871 --> 00:13:49,961 - Ah. - So one week. 193 00:13:50,038 --> 00:13:52,458 - Bobcat, skunk, coyote was pretty good. - Yeah. Yeah. 194 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,750 My interest in wildlife started out of hiking. 195 00:13:55,836 --> 00:13:59,006 That interest led into animal tracking 196 00:13:59,089 --> 00:14:01,929 and I started to notice signs on trailheads 197 00:14:02,009 --> 00:14:05,849 that warned of mountain lions, and I didn't quite believe it. 198 00:14:05,929 --> 00:14:08,269 Once I started actually seeing mountain lion tracks, 199 00:14:08,348 --> 00:14:09,808 then I wanted to see one. 200 00:14:09,892 --> 00:14:12,022 There's some really good sandy spots in here. 201 00:14:12,102 --> 00:14:13,852 It's a good place to find tracks. 202 00:14:15,522 --> 00:14:16,942 What we've got here 203 00:14:17,024 --> 00:14:19,074 - is definitely a little bobcat... - There you go. 204 00:14:19,151 --> 00:14:21,491 Travelling through, 'cause there's water down there. 205 00:14:21,570 --> 00:14:24,160 It's great finding Nikita tracks in here. 206 00:14:24,239 --> 00:14:25,989 They'd be bigger than anyone else's. 207 00:14:26,074 --> 00:14:27,414 Definitely be big, yeah. 208 00:14:27,492 --> 00:14:31,212 Nikita right now is our only mountain lion in the Verdugos. 209 00:14:31,288 --> 00:14:34,708 Her mate, P-41, passed away about two years ago. 210 00:14:34,791 --> 00:14:37,211 Her kittens just didn't make it into adulthood. 211 00:14:37,294 --> 00:14:38,964 So, she's all we have right now. 212 00:14:39,046 --> 00:14:43,296 There are a couple images of what I call cityscape shots of Nikita. 213 00:14:43,383 --> 00:14:45,643 When people see it for the first time, they gasp. 214 00:14:45,719 --> 00:14:49,219 And it hits them exactly how close she is to us, 215 00:14:49,306 --> 00:14:51,386 and what her world is like. 216 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:54,810 What's amazing to me is just how urban it is down there. 217 00:14:54,895 --> 00:14:57,935 - Our studios are right around the corner. - Yeah. 218 00:14:58,023 --> 00:14:59,823 These people that live down in this canyon 219 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:02,610 all know that a mountain lion comes through once in a while. 220 00:15:02,694 --> 00:15:04,864 People will come up and tell, "I saw her. 221 00:15:04,947 --> 00:15:07,737 "I saw her on my security camera. Is she here now? 222 00:15:07,824 --> 00:15:09,454 "Does she look okay? She look healthy?" 223 00:15:09,535 --> 00:15:13,075 It's interesting how many people are willing to live with, 224 00:15:13,163 --> 00:15:16,423 you know, substantial wild populations of animals around them. 225 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:19,750 We all know we've reached this kind of tipping point, 226 00:15:19,837 --> 00:15:22,127 where the fate of the natural world 227 00:15:22,214 --> 00:15:25,094 is much more involved with decisions we make. 228 00:15:25,175 --> 00:15:27,845 Especially a place like this, 'cause it's a bit of an island 229 00:15:27,928 --> 00:15:31,138 which is what the need for these wildlife corridors is all about. 230 00:15:31,223 --> 00:15:35,523 Exactly. And we are at a point now where, if we act, 231 00:15:35,602 --> 00:15:38,442 we can prevent those corridors from getting pinched off. 232 00:15:39,690 --> 00:15:43,650 These are animals who were born into helicopters overhead, 233 00:15:43,735 --> 00:15:46,775 sirens going off, motion-activated lights on patios. 234 00:15:46,864 --> 00:15:48,874 - I totally get that. - So they've adapted, 235 00:15:48,949 --> 00:15:52,619 they're shifting their behavior into the more dead of night 236 00:15:52,703 --> 00:15:54,543 - rather than dusk and dawn. - Right. 237 00:15:54,621 --> 00:15:57,371 - They're making it work. - We should make it work, too. 238 00:15:57,457 --> 00:16:01,707 Johanna came to this camera trapping thing kind of organically, on her own. 239 00:16:01,795 --> 00:16:05,625 It grew into both an art form and a science. 240 00:16:05,716 --> 00:16:08,636 And part of a lesson from that is improvisation. 241 00:16:09,094 --> 00:16:11,014 There is no real rule book here. 242 00:16:11,096 --> 00:16:17,136 You can invent your own way of entering the world of conservation. 243 00:16:17,227 --> 00:16:19,687 This field is open to anybody, 244 00:16:19,771 --> 00:16:23,531 and you can engage with that in your own way and make a difference.