A few months back, IGN was invited to Disney's Animation Research Library in Glendale, Calif., where all of the original artwork for its animated films is stored. There, we spoke with Lion King director Rob Minkoff and animators Tony Bancroft (who was responsible for drawing the character of Pumbaa) and Mark Henn (the lead animator for Simba) about the new 3D version of the film. (We also had a chance to speak with Robert Neuman, the man in charge of converting the film, but we'll save that interview for another article, closer to the release date.)
The Lion King will be released on 3D Blu-ray on Oct. 4. For more about what's included in the special features, check out our original announcement. You can also catch the 3D version in theaters beginning this Friday, Sept. 16.
* MPAA Rating: G
* Publisher: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
* Genre: Animation
* Disc Format: Blu-ray
* Release Date: US: October 4, 2011
* More Movie Info: The Lion King
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How much were you involved in the conversion process?
Minkoff: When we heard that they were going to do it we had a meeting with Robert [Neumann], so me and Don Hahn, who's the producer of the movie, and [co-director] Roger Allers met with Robert and a number of people on his team, first of all, to look at the movie in 2D before they did anything, to look at some of the techniques that they were going to use to convert the movie and to discuss how we thought the movie we thought should be done. Because there are different choices that could be made creatively when you do 3D. So we were involved, I would say, conceptually from the very beginning.
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So you kept tabs on the progress
Minkoff: We came and did reviews at a number of points along the process to see what they'd been doing, to look at new scenes and talk about them. So we sort of checked in at every point in the process. We weren't obviously directly involved in the conversion itself, but more I suppose in the ....
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