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Fact #3341 

Baymax is 6 feet tall and 75 pounds.

Fact #3342 

 In his super suit, is more than 7 feet tall and can lift 1000 pounds.

Fact #3343 

Artists looked at actors like John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper and other cowboys to study cool, emotionally reserved traits while developing GoGo Tomago’s look and personality.

Fact #3344 

Artists looked at speed skaters to inform the body type and movement for GoGo Tomago, a passionate student of speed.

Fact #3345 

Artists studied snowboarders, skateboarders and surfers to develop movement and posture for Fred.

Fact #3346 

Wasabi, at one time, was a very Zen character with very Zen dreadlocks. When filmmakers tweaked his personality, they initially decided the neatnik wouldn’t be a fan of the not-oft-shampooed-do and gave him a haircut. The look didn't last. It turns out, everyone was just too attached to his cool locks.

Fact #3347 

Ryan Potter, who voices Hiro in Big Hero 6, was obsessed with building robots as a kid.

Fact #3348 

Genesis Rodriguez, who lends her voice to Honey Lemon in Big Hero 6, was on her school’s robotics team.

Fact #3349 

James Com well, who lends his voice to Professor Robert Callaghan, studied at Carnegie Mellon University. Big Hero 6 filmmakers spent time at the school, learning all about the innovative field of soft robotics, which ultimately inspired Baymax, a huggable vinyl robot that cares for people.

Fact #3350 

As a child, Damon Wayans Jr., who provides the voice of Wasabi, wanted to be an animator when he grew up. He even studied animation after graduating high school before he decided to pursue acting.

Fact #3351 

The Big Hero 6 animation team topped 100 members (103 to be exact). That’s about 15 more animators than 2013’s feature film Frozen.

Fact #3352 

Filmmakers selected karate to broaden Baymax’s skillset — but animators had to adjust some of the movements to work for the voluminous character’s build. A few members of the team visited a nearby martial arts studio to get a feel for the practice. Pros were asked to attempt some of the moves while on their knees to simulate Baymax’s signature proportions.

Fact #3353 

Filmmakers consulted with flight specialist Jason McKinley, who worked on both Disney’s Planes and Planes: Fire & Rescue to choreograph and execute the flight sequences with Baymax and Hiro.

Fact #3354 

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ proprietary system Denizen allowed filmmakers to create bigger, more believable crowds for Big Hero 6. Around 670 unique characters were created, compared to 270 in Frozen, 185 in Wreck-It Ralph and 80 in Tangled. Each of the 670 characters has up to 32 different clothing look combinations, plus 32 different hair and skin tones. That means, filmmakers could invite 686,080 unique characters to the San Fransokyo party before there were any exact repeats. Denizen was made available to everyone at Walt Disney Animation Studios and employeeswere encouraged to model themselves in the system to join the crowd. More than 200 characters were created, and employees will see themselves upon the big screen walking among the Big Hero 6.

Fact #3355 

The ‘Port of San Fransokyo’ scene has over 6000 people in it. 23 districts were built in 3D. 83,149 lots of the 150,000 in all of San Francisco were built. 18.8 million building parts. 215,000 streetlights. 260,000 trees.

Fact #3355 

Although it is based on a Marvel comic of the same name, there are lots of changes: the names, the setting, the ethnicities of characters, the backstories, and several plot points.

Fact #3356 

The villain’s name, Yokai, means “demon” in Japanese.

Fact #3357 

Several Big Hero 6 characters won’t appear in the film due to copyright issues.

Fact #3358 

The film might also draw inspiration from Big Hero 6’s mini-series, where Wasabi and Fred first appeared, replacing Silver Samurai and others.

Fact #3359 

Big Hero 6 is Disney Animation Studios’ first full fledged superhero movie.  Pixar has The Incredibles, and Marvel has their library of films. 

Fact #3360 

An average Disney film has up to 2 to 3 lead characters and 3 to 4 supporting characters.  Big Hero 6 has 15 main characters.  There is the team of 6 characters.

Fact #3361 

While Big Hero 6 does have the Marvel brand attached to it, Don Hall actually pitched the story about a genius kid and his healthcare robot.

Fact #3362 

Big Hero 6 is actually following a new story trend at Disney, where the theme focuses on family and relationships.  While Frozen had a family tied by blood, Big Hero 6 will have a unconventional one where Hiro builds a new family with the friends he meets in the film.  All of whom have some sort of personal connection to his brother, Tadashi.

Fact #3363 

Director Don Hall is a fan of animation and comic books so in the course of research he came across a lesser known comic series called Big Hero 6.

Fact #3364 

Casting Baymax’s voice actor took awhile until they found Scott Adsit. Scott was able to relate Baymax’s emotions and sensitivity.

Fact #3365 

Penguins wound up being the reference on Baymax’s simple walking and movements plus they show a lot of emotion without facial expressions with head movements.

Fact #3366 

Original designs had a mouth on Baymax but he looked more robotic without one.

Fact #3367 

Clothing designers visited Tokyo to study traditional kimonos as well as Anna kimonos plus street clothes to incorporate into characters costumes.

Fact #3368 

20 million Microbots are on the screen at once.

Fact #3369 

This film took 4-5 years to develop and the bulk of that time is spend on the story.

Fact #3370 

Big Hero 6 is rated PG and it's out RIGHT NOW! 

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