What we have here is the Genie
turning into a Genie bunny, I've started to animate that.
In this collaboration
between Cirque de Soleil
and Walt Disney Animation Studios
and Walt Disney Imagineering
is very, very unique.
The fact that you've got these three great creative entities
creating a show together for the first time,
I think is something that audiences have never seen before.
The content itself that they've devised
is very, very moving.
I'm trying to find ways that the animation helps define it,
even though the show will certainly be using
existing pieces of animation,
not just full color, by the way,
but also pencil tests sequences,
which almost nobody gets to see the general public.
We are producing new animation to go here,
which is specific to
how the characters are going to relate
to the animated characters,
how things will interact.
So now this sheet is acting nutty
and of course it turns into the Genie, who's my guy
and he turns himself into a bunny.
It's brand new stuff that we're doing
for telling the story in this show.
I think the blending of live performance
and animation that's going to be in this show
is very, very unique
and I can't wait for the public to see it
because you've got everything that makes Cirque de Soleil
great in this show.
The fusion of the animation
and the live performer storyline
is blended so well.
It's like they were made for each other.