In 2016, Disney released a princess movie in which the main character did not have a love interest. It was a first for Disney. Auli'i Cravalho, a Hawaiian native, voiced the 16-year old Polynesian princess and most the film’s cast also had Polynesian heritage, another monumental moment in movie history. It’s quite possible that you missed the awesome animation of the water because the storyline was so well-developed.

Moana is sent on a quest to save her people. She must leave her safe island home, to take to the ocean, which becomes a character as well as a driving force in the movie. To animate an inanimate object while keeping its natural properties is something of a feat. As an added pressure, most Disney movies do not have many water scenes, but Moana had hundreds of them. Disney teams turned to technology to computer-generate the water in the movie.

Animating a Story Is a Labor of Love

Creating an animated movie is extremely laborious and complex. An artist must create the environment, everything from the props to textures of grass and ground. The characters themselves should be animatable and capable of demonstrating emotion and movement. Other designers work on lighting and effects. Bringing these elements together is much more difficult than a live-action movie. One of the pieces of the environment had to appear lifelike and act as an element of the scene.

The year is starting to draw near to a close and with the movie business grossing over $7,000,000,000 is the US alone this year there have been some blockbusters in the cinema.

From 80s remakes and action films, to comic book sequels and family movies, hundreds of movies have reached our screens this year.  So let’s have a look at a few of the biggest blockbuster movies released in 2016:

Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice

Released in March and grossing more than $800 million worldwide from a budget less than one-third of that amount, Batman vs Superman Dawn of Justice proved to be a hit.  The sequel to the 2013 Man of Steel, the story is based around the world’s struggle to accept Superman as their true hero.  Some people consider him nothing more than a vigilante and even warn the world of how dangerous he really is.

Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as well as his gnome’s friends led Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) finally has succeeded to take back the castle and the kingdom of the gnome from a giant fire dragon namely Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch). But it turns out that it results a consequence that loses a village near to the castle inhibited by hundreds of human. 

The dragon turns out anger out by burning the entire village with his fire. It also makes the residents to be victims. Nevertheless, there is a resident namely Bard (Luke Evans) with full of brave and archery skills succeed to kill the dragon. The death of the Smaug relieves all of the residents as well as Bilbo and his gnomes in the castle. 

Unfortunately, after the dragon death, there is another dragon emerged. The wealthy in the castle of the gnome become a fight between the two sides. The gnome, the fairy palace or human, want to get their part of the wealthy. Sadly, Thorin who leads the gnome castle is too arrogant and greedy to share the welfare. It is finally triggering a war among them.