Elena Deng-Looking Outwards 05

I chose to look at the snow in the movie Frozen. I have always admired how the creators were able to brave the task of creating a realistic looking snow. In high school, my teacher was involved with this project and since watching the movie it became apparent how real the snow looked and acted compared to the snow animations in other movies. The animators explain that they used a method where they created very small particles of snow and assign them a random volume and size. After factoring velocities as well as collision variables for each of those particles, the grain of snow is then able to move. Another amazing spect that was taken into consideration was the different consistences of snow in different situations and temperatures. With the snow they were able to use it as a narrative cue within the movie—much of Elsa’s emotions are manifested through the snows’s velocity and color.

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