Big Hero 6 Fun Facts + Activity Sheets #BigHero6 #MeetBaymax

BIG HERO 6

Have you seen Big Hero 6 yet? If so, then I’m sure you’re going to love these fun facts I got from Disney regarding the movie! If not, there’s still time to catch it in theaters!

The Characters:

  • Baymax is 6 feet tall and 75 pounds—until Hiro mechs him out. Baymax, in his super suit, is more than 7 feet tall and can lift 1000 pounds. “He’s all air,” says head of animation Zach Parrish.
  • 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.
  • Baymax sports a standard nine-frame-blink, says head of animation Zach Parrish. “We play with the speed of his blink throughout the film, but for the most part, it’s a standard blink. It’s the amount of time we give the audience to think before he blinks that says a lot—the longer it is, the more time he’s processing. A double blink shows confusion. We used that a few times in the film. That could be an acting choice for a human character, too.”
  • Artists looked at speed skaters to inform the body type and movement for GoGo Tomago, a passionate student of speed.
  • Artists studied snowboarders, skateboarders and surfers to develop movement and posture for Fred.
  • 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.
  • To ensure Hiro’s charming gap-toothed grin stayed intact from any angle, controls were added to his teeth so animators could make adjustments as needed.

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The Talent:

  • Ryan Potter, who voices Hiro in “Big Hero 6,” was obsessed with building robots as a kid. “I was 9 or 10 when I got a robotics kit,” he says. “I absolutely love science.”
  • Genesis Rodriguez, who lends her voice to Honey Lemon in “Big Hero 6,” was on her school’s robotics team. “I was a welder,” she says. “So I made sure my weldings were just perfect and very aesthetically pleasing as well. People didn’t expect us to be so good. That was the beauty of it. We were just this bright group of girls who had an idea, executed it and beat the guys.”
  • James Cromwell, who lends his voice to Professor Robert Callaghan, studied at Carnegie Mellon University (then called Carnegie Tech). “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 takes care of people.
  • 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.

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The Filmmaking:

  • Filmmakers selected karate to broaden Baymax’s skillset so a few members of the team visited a nearby martial arts studio. Pros were asked to attempt some of the moves while on their knees to simulate Baymax’s signature proportions.
  • 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.
  • Walt Disney Animation Studios’ proprietary system Denizen allowed filmmakers to create bigger, more believable crowds for “Big Hero 6” and created around 670 unique characters, 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 employees were encouraged to model themselves in the system to join the crowd. More than 200 characters were created, and employees will see themselves up on the big screen—walking among the “Big Hero 6.”
  • 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

It’s amazing what the latest technology can do to make new movies turn out so great!

Now here are some Big Hero 6 activity sheets for your Baymax-loving kids! Just click on the image below to be taken to my Dropbox folder. You can download individual sheets from there.  Enjoy! 🙂

Big Hero 6 Activity Sheets

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Big Hero 6 Fun Facts + Activity Sheets #BigHero6 #MeetBaymax — 15 Comments

  1. Thanks for the Fantastic Review on Big Hero 6. It sure took an awful lot of people, time , studying, and work on this film! I have to admit that I still have not seen the movie, however, I’ve heard an awful lot of good things about it! I enjoyed reading about your fun facts on the movie! Thanks so much for the Terrific Review and all the information you provided us! I honestly do appreciate it! Thanks again, Michele 🙂
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  2. Neat facts! I love how movies come to be and reading these were fun. Thanks for the activity sheets! My LO will color over them but it will be fun trying to teach him what to do.

  3. This looks like another great movie to watch with my kids. We have not seen it yet but I will be waiting for it to come out on Redbox.

  4. I have not seen Hero 6 yet but I have seen the previews and it looks like a pretty good film, I can’t wait to see it. Thank you for sharing this post, I found it very informative.

  5. Even though this movie has been out a while, my grandchildren love watching it. Thank you for sharing this movie and the activity pages