Robert Rodriguez On Making Music 4 His Films

Robert Rodriguez talks about making music for his films and what it takes to do so.

The official trailer for Disney’s upcoming “Tangled” movie, due in theaters November 24, 2010. When the rogue Flynn Rider (Zachary Levi) chooses an isolated tower for his latest hideout, he has no idea the tower is already occupied by a princess who was kidnapped as an infant. Rapunzel (Mandy Moore), who can use her magical hair to heal, sees the devil-may-care bandit as her escape from the tower and a chance at a life of adventure – one that may reunite her with her long-lost parents and restore her royal heritage. The movie’s visual style will be based on the painting “The Swing”, by the French Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Because director Glen Keane wanted this to be an animated movie that looked and felt like a traditional hand-drawn Disney Classic in 3D, he first had a seminar called “The Best of Both Worlds”, where he, with 50 Disney animators (CGI artists and traditional artists), focused on the pluses and minuses of each style.Because of advancements in computer technology, many basic principles of animation used in traditional animated movies but which have been absent in CGI films due to technical limitations are now becoming possible also in this field of animation, where they will be used together with the potential offered by CGI. Keane has stated numerous times that he is trying to make the computer “bend its knee to the artist” instead of having the computer dictate the artistic style and look of the film. By making the computer become as “pliable …
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