WIRED magazine is doing some cool, cool things this month related to animation. Namely, Disney animation! We’ll be featuring their features throughout the week, kicking off with this: a behind-the-scenes feature on the invention of Baymax, or at... WIRED magazine is doing some cool, cool things this month related to animation. Namely, Disney animation! We’ll be featuring their features throughout the week, kicking off with this: a behind-the-scenes feature on the invention of Baymax, or at... WIRED magazine is doing some cool, cool things this month related to animation. Namely, Disney animation! We’ll be featuring their features throughout the week, kicking off with this: a behind-the-scenes feature on the invention of Baymax, or at... WIRED magazine is doing some cool, cool things this month related to animation. Namely, Disney animation! We’ll be featuring their features throughout the week, kicking off with this: a behind-the-scenes feature on the invention of Baymax, or at... WIRED magazine is doing some cool, cool things this month related to animation. Namely, Disney animation! We’ll be featuring their features throughout the week, kicking off with this: a behind-the-scenes feature on the invention of Baymax, or at... WIRED magazine is doing some cool, cool things this month related to animation. Namely, Disney animation! We’ll be featuring their features throughout the week, kicking off with this: a behind-the-scenes feature on the invention of Baymax, or at... WIRED magazine is doing some cool, cool things this month related to animation. Namely, Disney animation! We’ll be featuring their features throughout the week, kicking off with this: a behind-the-scenes feature on the invention of Baymax, or at... WIRED magazine is doing some cool, cool things this month related to animation. Namely, Disney animation! We’ll be featuring their features throughout the week, kicking off with this: a behind-the-scenes feature on the invention of Baymax, or at... WIRED magazine is doing some cool, cool things this month related to animation. Namely, Disney animation! We’ll be featuring their features throughout the week, kicking off with this: a behind-the-scenes feature on the invention of Baymax, or at...

WIRED magazine is doing some cool, cool things this month related to animation. Namely, Disney animation! We’ll be featuring their features throughout the week, kicking off with this: a behind-the-scenes feature on the invention of Baymax, or at least his movie character form. 

From inspiration from the original Baymax from classic Marvel comics to real-life robotics and even penguins and diapered toddlers, Disney artists worked hard to determine the most adorable, huggable and relatable robot we’ve probably ever seen. (Sorry, WALL-E… your dust-and-rust-covered shell doesn’t exactly encourage hugs). 

Here are more photos from Big Hero 6 development. You can read more about it in this coming month’s WIRED and online about halfway through this article.

On [a] research trip, this one to the Carnegie Mellon University robotics lab, Hall saw a vinyl-covered robotic arm used for nursing functions, like wiping a patient’s face. In an instant, he realized that Baymax could be a caretaker robot. “Soft robotics was the big lightning bolt,” Hall says. ©2014 DISNEY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Via WIRED

On a research trip to Japan, Hall and the movie’s designers saw a traditional copper bell, the bottom of which was punctuated with two holes connected by a slit. That inspired Baymax’s facial features—it’s easy for the audience to project various emotions onto such a simple canvas. ©2014 DISNEY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

To help define Baymax’s bottom-heavy shape and endearing penguinlike waddle, animators looked at videos of a full-diapered toddler. ©2014 DISNEY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Some of the photos above show a very different Baymax than the final product, but this proves an excellent point — in character design, revision keeps happening. Baymax could have been round. Hiro could have traveled by backpack, or Baymax, traveled by suitcase. Baymax could have been see-through and a clean freak and a number of other things that were cool, but Disney animators weren’t satisfied until they found the perfect product. May we always do the same in our own work. 

- Courtney (HarmonicaCave)

Oct. 22 2014
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