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In pitching and creating the new Pixar film Turning Red<\/a>, director Domee Shi had a very particular visual style in mind from the very beginning.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the term we used a lot in meetings was \u2018Asian tween fever dream\u2019,\u201d she explained in an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we first started working on it, we really wanted the style to feel different. We wanted it to feel like our protagonist, like Mei Lee, like what would the world look like if it was from the eyes of this, spunky, confident, dorky, larger-than-life tween girl?\u201d<\/p>\n On those terms, the film certainly succeeds. Turning Red brilliantly mimics the mind of its teenaged protagonist, using a variety of different animation styles and techniques to create a loud, frantic energy that very much lets the audience believe they\u2019re seeing the world from Mei Lee\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n In order to get there, Shi explained, the creative team sought influences in a number of different directions.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re inspired a lot by anime, but also by Western animation too,\u201d she said. \u201cLike classic Warner Brothers and Disney and just, you can see that in how slapstick and goofy the characters act and behave in certain scenes.<\/p> \u201cBut we really pushed the colours and the lighting of this world to really make it feel fresh and pastelly and vibrant \u2013 just like our main character.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEdgar Wright was also a big influence,\u201d added producer Lindsey Collins. \u201cIn the sense of like, how he would utilise camera, and, you know, his cutting pattern and stuff like that. That just felt so kind of active and stylised.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDefinitely,\u201d Shi agreed. \u201cWe looked at a lot of like, how does live-action stylise the look of their movies? So we looked a lot at Edgar Wright, we looked at Wes Anderson. It was just, yeah, how do we push it, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking more specifically about the colours and lighting used for the film, production designer Rona Liu told RadioTimes.com<\/strong> and other press: \u201cWhen planning for the progression of colour and lighting for the entire film, we\u2019re always looking to Mei and how her emotional state is tracking throughout the film.<\/p>\n \u201cAround the centerline of the graph is where Mei feels calmer and more balanced, and she\u2019s feeling really confident. And any time we move above or below the centre line, that\u2019s where we give ourselves the permission to go crazy with camera, colour, and light. Domee always described the vibe of this film as an Asian teenage fever dream, and I feel like we just captured all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n Turning Red will be released on Disney Plus on 11th March 2022.\u00a0<\/strong>Visit our\u00a0Movies<\/a>\u00a0hub for more news and features and find something to watch tonight with\u00a0our\u00a0TV Guide.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0to get each issue delivered to your door. For more from the biggest stars in TV, l<\/strong>isten to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n By Patrick Cremona Published: Friday, 11 March 2022 at 12:00 am In pitching and creating the new Pixar film Turning Red, director Domee Shi had a very particular visual style in mind from the very beginning. \u201cI think the term we used a lot in meetings was \u2018Asian tween fever dream\u2019,\u201d she explained in an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12099,"template":"","categories":[6],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/how-turning-reds-visual-style-mimics-the-mind-of-a-teenager.jpg",1920,1278,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/how-turning-reds-visual-style-mimics-the-mind-of-a-teenager-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/how-turning-reds-visual-style-mimics-the-mind-of-a-teenager-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/how-turning-reds-visual-style-mimics-the-mind-of-a-teenager-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/how-turning-reds-visual-style-mimics-the-mind-of-a-teenager-1024x682.jpg",800,533,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/how-turning-reds-visual-style-mimics-the-mind-of-a-teenager-1536x1022.jpg",1536,1022,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/how-turning-reds-visual-style-mimics-the-mind-of-a-teenager.jpg",1920,1278,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Patrick Cremona Published: Friday, 11 March 2022 at 12:00 am In pitching and creating the new Pixar film Turning Red, director Domee Shi had a very particular visual style in mind from the very beginning. \u201cI think the term we used a lot in meetings was \u2018Asian tween fever dream\u2019,\u201d she explained in an…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/12098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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