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28Jan/20Off

Disney fans will love Frozen VR. When can they see it? Maybe…never

[PhilNote: It is a delightful short, with original characters but the same 'spirits' as the movie.]

Disney Plus eventually may stream the closely guarded Frozen 2 short, but it wouldn't be VR.

Myth: A Frozen Tale is a beautifully stylized origin story of the nature-spirit characters of Frozen's blockbuster movie sequel. Featuring characters like the cute, fiery salamander Bruni, glittering water horse Nokk and flighty air spirit Gale (which Disney actually created with the help of VR as a production tool), Myth is a fairy tale retold inside the Frozen universe. It's only the second VR short made in-house by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and it's the first one to bring a Disney Animation blockbuster franchise into virtual reality. Disney has shown off Myth on the sidelines of the Sundance Film Festival here in Park City, Utah.

Jeff Gipson, the director of both Cycles and Myth, said that the beauty of creating a VR film like Myth in what is essentially a video-game engine is that his team can adapt it into a flat version that could potentially be on Disney Plus someday, like Cycles.

See the full story here: https://www.cnet.com/news/disney-fans-will-love-frozen-2-vr-when-can-they-see-it-maybe-never/

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