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“At a certain point, the process learns to work with you. All the animators did a really good job of learning the language of me and my creative team.”

The theme of Christmas gone wrong was highly relatable to Swiss director Simon Otto, who has previously worked as an animator on How to Train Your Dragon and Enchanted.

But there were a few animators on our team who were really good at facial animation, and we gave them the most emotional scenes, the close-up scenes.

As the first step, animators made a set of controls so they could basically animate big sculptural shapes of tornadoes around the landscape.

Guests interact with Disney characters aboard, hear talks from animators, eat at themed restaurants, and watch Disney stage productions.