{"id":5129,"date":"2020-01-17T01:19:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:48:19","slug":"disney-gui-picker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/17\/disney-gui-picker\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney GUI picker \/ dAnimPicker part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Disclaimer:  Much to my regret, I don&#8217;t work for Disney Feature Animation but DTVA (Disney TV) so I don&#8217;t have access to any of the tools demonstrated  here and as such I am not breaching any NDA. The content is just extracted from publicly available material.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in <strong>dAnimPicker<\/strong>, the Disney character picker, and if you want to know how the brows are controlled at Disney, here is a short clip I extracted from a Moana Behind the Scene video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I am recognizing Disney head of animation Malcon Pierce here, and if you pay attention, you will probably notice that he is shaping the brows using only a main control, 3 secondary controls and probably navigating between them using his keyboard using a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"pickwalking (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/lesterbanks.com\/2017\/10\/better-pickwalking-mayas-controller-node\/\" target=\"_blank\">pickwalking<\/a> feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The light blue control is the main brow and the darker ones are the secondary (inner and mid brow). The dark circular just above is probably the outer brow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/01\/Maui_brows_close_up_shot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/01\/Maui_brows_close_up_shot.jpg\" alt=\"Maui brows close up\" class=\"wp-image-5136\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yMJ61dt-V5k\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yMJ61dt-V5k<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would be really curious to hear what are the controls right underneath though&#8230;. tertiary controls?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/01\/image-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/01\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5133\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/01\/Maui_brows_wide_shot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/01\/Maui_brows_wide_shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5137\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Related post:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-wordpress-embed wp-block-embed-wordpress-embed is-provider-animation-with-a-moustache\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"jdP0WANqCq\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/19\/danimpicker-part-2\/\">dAnimPicker (part 2)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; 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