
It took a lot of work (the animators had an incubator solely to help them with this scene, which they called "Princess Palooza") and the input of original Disney animator Mark Henn (who got into this industry because he loved Cinderella so much - no pressure) to translate an entire slate of princesses (most of which were drawn in the 2D style, rather than Ralph's 3D) into Wreck-It Ralph-friendly versions. the Disney crown jewels, is not a task that one simply just does. "So we just decided to show her ears," Thompson adds, clearly aware of the simultaneous simplicity and enormity of such a decision.Īnd while that might sound easy - you know, just give the girl some dang ears and move on - recreating the princesses, a.k.a. The art director says she was just as baffled as the rest of us that we'd gone 69 years as a Disney-loving society without realizing the princess was missing something essential.
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"When we were watching the original movie of Cinderella, we realized that her ears were completely pinned underneath the hairband, so we were like 'oh my gosh where did her ears go?'" Thompson explains to a room of reporters at Disney Animation HQ in Burbank. (Yes, some folks have noted that Cinderella's ears are slightly visible when she wears her hair down, but it's still weird that they're smashed under a headband for the sake of an evening look, OK?) But according to Ami Thompson, the art director of Ralph Breaks The Internet, the change just had to be done.


Naturally, this discovery caused fans to frantically wonder how they never noticed that the princess was literally missing the organ that allows her to hear the sweet words of her mice friends and her prince.

And it's understandable, because one of them sported a very different look than usual: Cinderella had ears, after apparent decades without. Like the rest of the internet, you may have looked at one of the Disney princesses in the Ralph Breaks The Internet trailer a little differently when the teaser came out in June.
