“Finding Dory’s” Hank, the shape-shifting, curmudgeonly, camouflaging octopus (voiced by Ed O’Neill), represents Pixar’s latest character achievement. He’s an essential sidekick for Ellen DeGeneres’ elevated Blue Tang, lovingly (and wisely) referred to as “anarchy in motion.”
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“Hank was one of the most challenging characters ever built at the studio,” Supervising Technical Director John Halstead told IndieWire. “An octopus’ extreme flexibility and the absence of a skeleton meant that we had to rethink our traditional approach to character construction and animation. We poured everything we had into him, and it was almost three years from the start of initial character design until we completed our first shots with Hank.”
There were issues of ground contact with more than 350 suckers and Hank’s mantle (the bulbous sack that...
Read More: Pixar’s Ed Catmull Explains Why The Studio Must Evolve With Each Film, Including New Hit ‘Finding Dory’
“Hank was one of the most challenging characters ever built at the studio,” Supervising Technical Director John Halstead told IndieWire. “An octopus’ extreme flexibility and the absence of a skeleton meant that we had to rethink our traditional approach to character construction and animation. We poured everything we had into him, and it was almost three years from the start of initial character design until we completed our first shots with Hank.”
There were issues of ground contact with more than 350 suckers and Hank’s mantle (the bulbous sack that...
- 11/15/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
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