1:00:02
She really nailed a lot of the stuff.
1:00:04
I think in some ways we found Eris
and the tone of her character...
1:00:07
from this scene late in the picture...
1:00:09
and sort of worked backwards
to have this much fun with her earlier.
1:00:13
So you often record things
out of order with your actors...
1:00:15
and when we discovered this
with Michelle...
1:00:17
we thought we'd really found
the power and fun of Eris.
1:00:21
...glorious chaos.
1:00:23
You humans are so...
1:00:25
By this point, Dan Wagner,
Eris' lead animator had a lot of help.
1:00:29
We were late in the game with a lot
of Eris' stuff, so a lot of the other leads...
1:00:33
helped out in this scene, jumped on board.
Everybody had a frustrating but fun time...
1:00:37
with Eris, having to learn
a new character late in the game.
1:00:40
We used to animate Eris without hair,
and put the hair in a couple of drawings...
1:00:44
and then go back and forth
with the effects crew.
1:00:48
It was tough to give her the power
she has if you imagine her bald.
1:00:51
She'd look like she had a shower cap on.
1:00:55
A lot more powerful with the flow here.
1:00:59
Yeah, and Dan really wanted to make
the hair as part of the whole character.
1:01:03
...because he saw something in you...
1:01:05
that just isn't...
1:01:07
That's Rodolphe's animation here.
1:01:10
She doesn't have to move by walking.
1:01:12
I always get reminded
that Eris is powerful and god-like.
1:01:17
We're not afraid of
destroying our set multiple times.
1:01:20
We went from the ocean of sand
to a little island...
1:01:23
and now we're down to just a runway here
for Sinbad.
1:01:26
And by the end of the scene
even that has disappeared.
1:01:29
We're simplifying and throwing away
throughout the sequence.
1:01:32
It was fun trying to
talk the crew through that.
1:01:34
"No, there's only a bit of it left now."
1:01:36
We'll break up more of it later.
1:01:39
She asks one question here
but for a very long time...
1:01:42
it was a series of questions.
1:01:44
And rather than a runway to the Book
it was steps.
1:01:47
Sinbad was allowed to advance a step
for every question she asked.
1:01:50
And while it was successful
in terms of telling the story...
1:01:54
it not only took a lot of time, it turned
Eris into Barbara Walters or something.
1:01:58
She was suddenly a game show host.