D E PA R T M E N T
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Universal themes
transcend as
Over the Moon
honors and
adapts a popular
Chinese myth
When Glen Keane commented on her
Ariel fan art, Character Designer
Brittany Myers couldn't believe the man
that inspired her path into animation
had given her a thumbs up. What hap-
pened next, was even more surprising?
"The next day, [producer] Gennie Rim
reached out to me via Facebook and I
got the offer to come onto the project.
I was like, is this real?" she says. "He
loved that [my designs] had sincerity
and felt like living, breathing characters.
He liked what I was doing in terms of
silhouette and shape."
Myers describes her style as sculpting
in paint, stretching and pushing forms to
their limits, sometimes pulling back
when she's gone too far. "When I draw in
pencil, I think there's a subconscious bar-
rier because I know that if I mess up,
what if I can't erase this?" she says, add-
ing that she prefers to work in Photoshop,
starting with broad strokes and refining
as she continues to work.
The character designer's first task on
the film was to work on Fei Fei, the film's
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