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* A team of more than 800 computer graphics artists spent more than a year animating more than 70 species, crafting 100 million leaves and simulating earth, fire and water.<\/p>\n
* The virtual environment makes up 80 percent of the film frame 100 percent of the time. Artists digitally built most of the jungle environment that appears in the film, creating moss, bark, rock, water, grass, trees, leaves that were all inspired by India.<\/p>\n
* Mother wolf Raksha is appropriately named because in Hindi, “Raksha” means “protector.”<\/p>\n
* If you thought costume designer Laura Jean Shannon had it easy with Mowgli wearing a loin cloth, think again. He had 17 different loin cloths.<\/p>\n
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\u201cMowgli\u2019s immersed in water and mud, he gets rained on, he runs,\u201d says Shannon. \u201cWe even rigged a hidden safety harness into the costume because Mowgli hangs on tree limbs and cliffs. Each of the loincloths\u00a0 . . . had a very specific purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n
* Baloo (one of my favorites) can reach nearly 15 feet high. He is so heavy and has so very much fur that the free-spirited bear took nearly five hours per frame to render. King Louie stands nearly 12 feet high.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n* Disney\u2019s 1967 animated film, \u201cThe Jungle Book,\u201d was the last film that Walt Disney oversaw. He passed away in 1966, the year before the film\u2019s release. \u201cWalt Disney\u2019s work has influenced my work. He was considered high tech for the time,” says\u00a0Director Jon Favreau. “He was the first person who locked soundtrack with picture, so the characters were perfectly choreographed to the musical score\u2014something that absolutely blew people\u2019s minds. Disney was on the cutting edge of technology.\u201d<\/p>\n
* Does the song “The Bare Necessities” pop into anyone else’s head when talking about The Jungle Book? The iconic song was\u00a0 written by Terry Gilkyson and nominated for an Academy Award\u00ae in 1968.<\/p>\n
* Composer John Debney, who wrote the score for the new, live-action film \u201cThe Jungle Book,\u201d is the son of Louis Debney, who worked for Walt Disney. \u201cWhen I was a youngster, they were making this incredible magical film called \u2018The Jungle Book,\u2019 and I was sort of a studio brat,\u201d says Debney, who says his family traveled with the family of Bruce Reitherman, who played Mowgli in the original film.<\/p>\n
* The voices in the film include Bill Murray (\u201cBaloo\u201d), Sir Ben Kingsley (\u201cBagheera\u201d), Lupita Nyong\u2019o (\u201cRaksha\u201d), Scarlett Johansson (\u201cKaa\u201d), Idris Elba (\u201cShere Khan\u201d), Christopher Walken (\u201cKing Louie\u201d), Giancarlo Esposito (\u201cAkela\u201d). Neel Sethi plays Mowgli, the only live action character in the film! Here’s a cool video highlighting each of them:<\/p>\n