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Fact #1621

The team created a computer simulator to make Merida’s hair look as realistic as possible.

Fact #1622 

Brave takes place in the 10th Century in Scottland.

Fact #1623 

80% of the movie used to be in snow, but the new director changed that.

Fact #1624 

In designing the look of the world, the Pixar animators and designers created around 350 custom brushes in Photoshop so they could layer different designs, patterns and shapes over each other to achieve a realistic and invisible look to all of the environments.

Fact #1625 

The Pizza Planet truck IS in the movie. It was hinted at D23 before the movie's release by one of the producers that if you take a really, really, close look around, you should be able to find it.

Fact #1626 

If Merida’s curls were straightened, her hair would be four feet long and reach the middle of her calf? Insane!

Fact #1627 

The DunBroch Castle was inspired by several other castles, most notably Eilean Donan Castle in the Highlands and Dunnottar Castle, located just south of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire.

Fact #1628 

No other Pixar film before “BRAVE” has had a castle in it.

Fact #1629 

In Scotland, there is a natural phenomenon of swamp and bog gasses that seep up through the earth, and are blue in color like the flame of the pilot light.  Scottish lore says that some people would follow these lights, thinking they were little fairies.  The production team took this myth and created the “will ‘ the wisps” in the movie.

Fact #1630 

The Callanish Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis are one of the oldest of Scotland’s mysterious wonders. They provided reference for the mysterious ring of stones Merida discovers in the film.

Fact #1631 

The total amount of storyboards used for the film were 111,394.

Fact #1632 

Production of the movie began way back in 2005.

Fact #1633 

One Pixar female employee with naturally curly hair and a whole lot of people in wigs served as models for computer animators creating Merida's hair.

Fact #1634 

For each clan, artists at Pixar created a new, unique tartan design.

Fact #1635 

The original title for the film was "The Bear and The Bow".

Fact #1636 

During the scene where Merida gives her speech on "breaking tradition", her mother, as a bear, moves silently behind the majority of the crowd, so they don't see her. Fair enough. However, Merida and her father's clan are all looking in the same general direction (towards the crowd) while she's speaking - how does no one from Merida's clan see a bear moving at the back of the room?

Fact #1637 

When Merida's family are having lunch, potatoes are being eaten. Potatoes weren't introduced anywhere in Great Britain until the 16th century.

Fact #1638 

When Merida is having her day out, the bird she sees is a Harris's Hawk. However, the Harris's Hawk is native to the central part of America and wouldn't be seen in Scotland.

Fact #1639 

Brave was Pixar's first animated movie to feature a female lead. 

Fact #1640 

The amount of time it took for the animaters to create the computer system to make Merida's hair took 2 years. 

Fact #1641 

The story of Merida and her relationship with her mother, Queen Elinor, was inspired by director Brenda Chapman’s own relationship with her young daughter.

Fact #1642 

Fergus wears nine different simulated garments at the same time—each has its own movement that must be “simulated” by algorithms in the computer. 

Fact #1643 

The DunBroch tartan pattern is physically impossible to make with traditional tartan weaving methods.

Fact #1644 

The demon-bear Mordu’s skin textures are based on satellite images of scorched earth.

Fact #1645 

The “Brave” character team consumed more than 60 packages of double-stuff Oreos in 2011.

Fact #1646 

Actor John Ratzenberger, Pixar’s “lucky charm,” has had a voice role in every Pixar film. “Brave” is no different – Ratzenberger plays one of the castle guards at the entrance to the great hall. 

Fact #1647 

And the second of the hall guards is voiced by none other than “Brave” composer Patrick Doyle.

Fact #1648 

The DunBroch royal family tapestry involved in the film's plot was used in Cars 2, except that the tapestry seen in the pub in London, England showed Merida and her family as cars.

Fact #1649 

Brave is the third Pixar movie to have a post-credit sequence. The first is Finding Nemo, and the second being Cars.

Fact #1650 

This is the fourth Pixar movie to have real blood, after Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Up.

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