Princess and the Frog teaser

[tealin]

ATTENTION INTERNET

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

TEASER ONLINE NOW!!

(and what a tease it is, too...)

Comments

[fani.livejournal.com]

did you work on that one ? :D

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Nope, that was Mark Henn, Eric Goldberg, Mike Surrey, and maybe Randy Haycock as far as I know.

[rogzilla.livejournal.com]

WOOT! Man, I have MISSED Disney animation! And it looks awesome too. ^_^

[stupidhero.livejournal.com]

OoOoOo...

*is excited*

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Whoa ... who's that in your icon? He looks exactly like someone I went to school with...

[stupidhero.livejournal.com]

It's Daniel Radcliffe. :)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

..... Freaky. The guy I know looks nothing like Daniel Radcliffe. O what odd things happen to shrunken images.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, Tiana is so pretty! The movie seems great, and the frog's design is cute. The only thing I'm really worried about is that the Randy Newman music won't be as appealing as the traditional Alan Menken music. It worked for Lion King, but I'm not sure this soundtrack will be as big a hit... and then that means they probably won't make anymore 2D. This reminds me of the whole Phil Collins soundtrack to Tarzan and Brother Bear.

I'm excited to find out how Tiana's a princess if she lives in America! I always assumed she married Prince Naveen and then became a princess, but she looks like she's already all princessy-looking when she's holding the frog.

Oh, if you're still suffering from Dr. Horrible withdrawal, I accidentally stumbled across a video of... Neil Patrick Harris. On Sesame Street. Playing a "shoe fairy." That sings. And wears sparkly wings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDaszN9ByxM

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Withdrawal? What withdrawal? You know what's worth $4 on iTunes? Perpetual gratification, that's what! All the same .... [squirrels away that link for a rainy day]

I think the soundtrack is pretty good, myself – I know people are attached to Alan Menken but I don't see why he has to have a monopoly on Disney musicals. This is just as much of a proper musical as any of his, it's not a movie sprinkled with pop songs. Brother Bear had a number of problems, not least of which was Phil Collins, but this isn't anything like that, and it takes a lot more than disappointing soundtrack to sink a movie. Randy Newman did the soundtrack to Cats Don't Dance, too ... that had a great soundtrack despite being killed by WB.

As for the princess thing, well ... you'll just have to wait and see! Eeeheeheehee!

[(Anonymous)]

Aww, I don't mean that I don't like Randy Newman! I just meant that people will be less eager to see the movie when the songs aren't what you'd call 'traditional Disney' songs, so that might make Disney less likely to make more 2D animation movies. Take "Enchanted." Were it not for the songs from Alan Menken, I doubt people would've liked the film much at all. The songs were really what made it.

The Phil Collins comment was that in the movies he wrote the songs for, the songs were more background music than sung by the characters, which made the songs seem more detached from the story, and I meant that I hope that the characters themselves would get to sing in "The Princess and the Frog" rather than having just Randy Newman singing narration. (Honestly, all I remember about Brother Bear was that I watched it with my sixth grade class on the last day of school, and the entire class was bawling, so I can't say much about the film on an artistic front.)

And yeah, I definitely bought Dr. Horrible, but you can only watch it so many times before it sinks in that no more new installments are coming... though I did start noticing little details like Billy taking over at the soup kitchen in "On The Rise," wearing a mustache and pouring the soup back into the pot. (And that the "Bad Horse" song can get very annoying on a car trip with two small children who love the song to bits.)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Um, well, I don't know just how much I'm allowed to say but I have seen some things posted on the intarweb so I'll leave it at this: Wait till you see it, your fears may be allayed. I'm inclined to disagree with you on Enchanted but have no proof to back me up so I'll just have to leave it at that.

And ... how many times is that? >:D I've gone through the levels of appreciating story and music, found little details of joy, discovered subtle techniques on a purely auditory level, and am now delving into the vast level of enjoyment to be derived from stop-framing things (though this last one may be the nerdy domain of the animator and mind-bogglingly boring to anyone else). I'm determined to wear it out!

Thank you: your story of singing children has put the Saturday with two lines of 'Bad Horse' stuck in my head in perspective. :) By the way, is there any sort of definitive list of song titles? I've been having to pick whatever phrase seems representative but theres no guarantee anyone else knows what I'm talking about.

[moonmystique.livejournal.com]

Omg! I'm super excited about the movie 8) The voice was really cute and the hick firefly made me lol.

[capnflynn.livejournal.com]

Nice. Thanks for linking!

[thearchduchess.livejournal.com]

You want tease? The 'Up' trailer is much more...teasy.

[rupertistheone.livejournal.com]

Oh holy crap! That makes me so exciteddd! I really love the princess, she's very pretty and I think her accent is adorable! The setting there reminds me of Ratatouille! Yay! Thanks for sharing :3

[charlottestone.livejournal.com]

Aw, it looks so cute! Very Old-School Disney, which I've missed.

[ks-claw.livejournal.com]

*rolling and laughing sooo hard* "How about a nice firm handshake?" Oh I am SO gonna see that when it comes out!!

[(Anonymous)]

Awesome!!!

[yazzydream.livejournal.com]

OMG! Lol. It looks awesome, and funny. Thanks! I've been waiting for this forever!

[priscellie.livejournal.com]

This looks wonderful! Oh, 2D animation, I miss you. Please gross seventy kajillion quintillion dollars so people make more, more, more! And I say this as an employee for a 3D animation firm. :D

[spence137.livejournal.com]

Aw, looks cute. But I'll never understand the decision to use Randy Newman in place of Alan Menkin.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Wait until you've heard the soundtrack, and then try to understand. In the meantime check out Newman's score for Ragtime.

Notes

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

EG had to have done the lips on the frog.
Randy Newman "Ragtime." My fave soundtrack ever.
Hello from New Hampshire. And a B&B built in 1764. Tomorrow early I wake up and take a pic of a covered bridge about half a mile away. I'm going to the bridge, not taking the picture from half a mile away.

The animation looks terrific.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

(flail)

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

Heheh, can't really say I blame her there.

[beckychan.livejournal.com]

:boing boing boing: I'm SOOOOOO excited! That tells you... like... NOTHING!

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

Huh. I don't know how I feel. The animation is great. The princess is very very pretty. *scratches head* Maybe I'm just in a poo-poo mood... *meanders off*

[(Anonymous)]

When I first heard the soundtrack choice was Randy Newman I flailed in a bad way. But then I remembered his Faust Musical, which was awesome... and now I am very VERY interested to hear the result.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

He did a Faust musical? Sweet!

[(Anonymous)]

It's EXTREMELY clever.

[bibliokat.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I like this princess already! Thanks for linking:)

[stuck-up-cow.livejournal.com]

Wow that was beautiful. I'm so happy Disney are finally doing another film in 2D animation.

Wish I didn't have to wait for ages though -_-

[sugarstillrusts.livejournal.com]

2d? finally! "a return to the warmth and grandeur of hand drawn animation" word.