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D E PA R T M E N T 27 KEYFRAME WINTER 2022 21 Capturing Motion In the strange world of Strange World, millions of moving creatures and plants required filmmakers to come up with innovative techniques. At heart, the movie Strange World is an adventure story with roots in classics like King Kong and Journey to the Center of the Earth. In the land of Avalonia, a farmer named Searcher Clade discovers pando, a plant that Director Don Hall describes as a "farm-to-table power source." The cultivation of pando takes Avalonia from a kind of horse-and-buggy existence into the modern age. But when the president of Avalonia informs Searcher that pando is no longer producing power, they set off to discover its source. Their journey takes them to the "strange world" of the movie's title, a bizarre place that presented numerous challenges for both characters and creators. strange world WINTER 2022 27 Strange World images courtesy of Disney Animation Studios.