A whole lotta folks online are discussing the new animatronic Walt Disney and saying it doesn't look enough like him. As I said, I think he looks a little like Mike Lindell.
This is not a huge deal but I'm curious about one aspect of this. Obviously, the Disney folks could have called in any of thousands of sculptors in this world who could have produced a dead-on accurate likeness of their company's founder…and maybe at some point they did. What strikes me as wrong about the final version of Walt is that his face is too wide. Here — I altered an image to explain what I mean. The image at left is how he/it looks. The image on the right narrows his/its face down a bit…
To me, the one on the right looks a little more like the Walt Disney I recall…the guy hosting the TV show in the early sixties. And what I'm curious about is whether the animatronic's face is as wide as it is because they had to stuff it so full of whatever kind of gizmos they need to squint his eyes, blink 'em, make his lips move, etc. What that face does in the video released so far is amazing. I don't know the tech terms for what's inside there that makes all that happen…but I'll bet there's a lot of it.
Did Walt get a bit of a swelled head for that reason? I still think the folks who built this thing did an incredible job. I'm just curious if at some point they decided to sacrifice likeness for lifelike facial movements. If anyone sees any articles that address this, lemme know.