We have shared with you numerous parts from a Question and Answer session with the “Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure” Director Klay Hall and Producer Sean Lurie. You can check out the sixth section we posted here.

Below is the seventh section of that session:

Q: Is there any chance the trolls will show up in their own animated feature?

Klay Hall: I hope so. I find those guys very funny.

Q: How many animators worked on Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure?

Klay Hall: From storyboard artists, to animators, to CG camera blockers, to CG model builders, we had many hundreds of talented individuals working on our film.

Q: For Klay: You’re known as TV animator, did you have special training for working as full-length film director or was it a natural step?

Klay Hall: While at Cal Arts, I trained in classical, feature animation. Then early in my television career, I started as an assistant animator eventually moving up to a supervising director. This took many years and lots of dedication. During this process, I learned to work with many different types of personalities, which helped me understand how people work. I also had to learn how to work with high-level executives from the networks and other studios. At one point in my career, I was overseeing seven episodes at once with a crew of about 115 people. These experiences, among many others, prepped me to become a skilled full-length film director. So in conclusion, it did feel like a natural step.

Q: What handy advice or life lessons can young girls learn from the Disney Fairies?

Klay Hall: In Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, there are a few life lessons that everyone, not just young girls, can learn from. For example, forgiveness like when Tinker Bell and Terence forgave each other about their misunderstanding. Another example, true friendship is the greatest treasure of all and should never be taken for granted. And finally, it’s okay to make mistakes. We all do and, hopefully, we learn from them.

Q: Is there a deleted scene that you wish had made the final cut?

Sean Lurie: There was a very funny scene where Blaze gets eaten by a frog that got cut out. It caught everybody by surprise and made people laugh out loud. We couldn’t find a way to make it work in the revised sequence of events in the story.

Q: Was there a challenging scene or an unexpected development, which occurred while working on the movie?

Sean Lurie: There’s an interesting scene in the movie where Tink blames Terence for breaking the scepter. Our initial instinct on this was to have Terence feel bad/sad. Early in the process he cowered away, and our hope was that we would feel sorry and sympathetic for him. We were reviewing this scene with John Lasseter and he said, “he should fight back, and stand up to Tink.” John felt that it wasn’t believable to have him mope off like that. That it wasn’t a natural reaction. This change in attitude with Terence helped inform a few other sequences in ways that improved the story. It’s a good lesson to always check the believability of the characters.

“Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure” is releasing to Disney Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, October 27th! We hope you are getting as excited as we are!

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