There are people who think that the 8-bit graphics that were the staple of old school arcade games have never been surpassed. Such aficionados would have loved the transformation of Brick Lane this weekend, as Disney turned the street into an 80s computer game, including a pixilated taxi, dog, postbox and digital pigeons!
Disney engaged renowned film production sculptor Aden Hynes to create the bespoke pieces of art, who said, that his ‘”whole life has become somewhat pixelated over the last month, I played 8 bit games as a teenager, so it was great to realise that vision in three dimensions.”
When director Rich Moore joined Walt Disney Animation Studios and began developing “Wreck-It Ralph,” he had a big problem. “Arcade-game characters have no free will,” he says. “They’re programmed to do one thing day in and day out—they don’t have a choice in the matter. I thought, ‘That’s boring.’” Or is it? “I realized it’s actually a great conflict,” says the director. “Within this world, there are strict rules: you do one job and one job only. What if there was a character who didn’t like his job?” With the premise decided the huge scale of the film soon became apparent. Indeed, “Wreck-It Ralph” features more than 180 unique characters—more than three times the average animated film.
“Wreck-It Ralph” crashes onto the big screen in the UK on 8th February 2013.
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