And it just kept growing to the point where you were just like, ‘Oh no this is going to be it. We’ll be back in May- June has a really solid day. “We were like, ‘Oh we’ll be back in six weeks. “We were naive about the whole thing,” co-writer Qui Nyguen says. Hall calls it “our secret sauce.”īut their next princess movie, and the first derived from Southeast Asian lore and culture, would exclude all of that.
Creative collaboration occurs in hallways, chance encounters in the parking lot, or over coffee at their in-house shop, the Caffeine Patch. It’s a neat trick that extends beyond mere story or production design meetings in the conference rooms. That’s just not who we are.” But on that day it’s who they became.Īs with other storied animation houses, Disney Animation prides itself on being a creative melting pot for talent to gather and bandy ideas around. Still, he confesses, “There’s relief juxtaposed with, ‘Oh my God, we’ve never done this before this way.’ We’re this big ship pointed in a direction, and it’s really hard to turn around. And Hall was relieved Disney got out ahead of it, being proactive about protecting its employees. Disney had been following the then-early days of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the world. In fact, co-director Don Hall tells me the first thing he felt that day was relief. Luckily, the decision did not catch anyone by surprise. Clearly they weren’t in Arendelle anymore. Raya and the Last Dragon, a movie Briggs co-directed, would become the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film to be produced primarily at home. Technology was scanning everything, making sure, ‘Okay, we’re going to this.’”
“And the animators were kind of walking out with their computers. “I still remember the day where everybody is like, ‘We’re going home, we’re going to start building this thing from home,’” Briggs says. For it was on a fateful early spring morning that the order finally came down: Raya and the Last Dragon would move its entire production-which had begun the very same month-to working from home. In the nearly 100 years since Walt Disney Animation Studios’ founding, it’s safe to say there never was a sight like the one facing animator Paul Briggs last March.
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