#pattheanimator

Ah, no worries! lol

Yeah, to this day I love that she cut her own hair. That moment alone makes me tear up in the midst of a fight I was largely just ready to have over and done with. (And, as it turns out, one of the animators at Mercury Filmworks that I became friends with, @pattheanimator, is the one who animated that moment!)

I know some people feel that it belittles the moment from the movie where Eugene cut her hair to free her, but here's the thing: Rapunzel spent her entire life not having any control over her hair. When Eugene cut it, it most definitely was a sacrifice and was to save her life, and was valuing her over himself, but it still wasn't her choice. I don't think she was ever upset with him for cutting her hair, and she clearly loves the short hair enough to maintain it at that length. But when Disney told the series that they had to put her long hair back for it, it was going to have to be cut again, anyway, to maintain continuity.

Rapunzel didn't choose to have her hair come back, and tried to cut it again right away, and was unable to because of its unbreakable properties. So why not allow her to have control of her own life -- to set herself free -- by letting her be the one to cut her hair at the end (or, at least, choose who got to cut it and when)?

Back then, the only time we saw a finished episode before it was on television was for the premier of our very first episode. 

From then on, we would occasionally see little bits and pieces of episodes during ADR (additional dialog recording, to correct sound problems), but never anything that wasn’t finished, otherwise.

A commission piece I got from @pattheanimator, who worked on Tangled: the Series at Mercury Filmworks!

I just found out that we have @pattheanimator to thank for this sweet moment of Rapunzel fixing Eugene’s collar.

Depends on what you’re specifically referencing. I know there were several deliberate references (Rapunzel got Belle’s gown for her birthday, the teal hummingbird at the Sunflower referencing Flit in Pocahontas, Lance and Eugene trying to climb Cassandra’s tower like Kuzco and Pacha, for example).

But I do know that in “Waiting In the Wings,” one of the animators watched and referenced “Part of Your World” for “While pretending that it barely stings,” how Cass holds her hands to her chest.

This was pointed out to me by the animator who did it. (I believe it was @pattheanimator, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, Pat.)

More subtle things, such as expressions, may not have been deliberately asked for by Chris, but put in there by the animators, since they’re the ones in charge of giving the moments the actual motion.

Brock was born and raised solidly middle class of a respectable family in a small town that’s not even really on the maps, and he was bored with his life. He was the kind of kid more likely to recite a play (the olde tyme equivalent of reciting a movie/tv show) than make up his own stories.