

The Meander digital inbetweening interface still has a host of production issues (including color) that need to be perfect. Although initially rumored to be made in hand-drawn/computer-animated technique introduced with Disney's short film Paperman, Musker said that it is "far too early to apply the Paperman hybrid technique to a feature.

Moana will be Musker and Clement's first fully computer-animated film.

To avoid similar problems, they pitched three new ideas, and in 2011 started developing the film based on an original idea. Christopher Jackson as the singing voice of Chief TuiĪfter directing The Princess and the Frog, Musker and Clements started working on an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Mort, but rights problems prevented them from continuing with that project.Louise Bush as the singing voice of young Moana.During her journey, she meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson), and together, they traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous fiery creatures and impossible odds. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped - and no one today knows why.įrom Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated adventure about a spirited teenager who sails out on a daring mission to prove herself a master wayfinder and fulfill her ancestors’ unfinished quest. Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania.
