Ariel DODO
Who Is Ariel? Ariel is the beautiful blue eyed, red headed mermaid from Disney's
The
Little Mermaid and she is unlike any mermaid you've ever seen! She
is King Triton's youngest daughter and sings with her sisters in an
undersea choir, creating music that is as lovely as she is.
A Strong Girl Ariel is independent and free thinking. Even though no one seems to
be as interested in the human world as she is, she keeps on with her
secret collection and enjoys all her cool treasures. When it comes to
thinking for herself, Ariel is the queen (and not just a princess!). She
loves learning new things and will continue to grow and make new
friends even if people disapprove. Without her curiosity and adventurous
spirit, Ariel would be just another mermaid under the sea!
A Fairy Tale From A Fairy Tale The Little Mermaid, the story of Ariel is based upon the
Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. It is the first Disney movie to be
based on a fairy tale since 1959 when Disney produced
Sleeping
Beauty. Long, Long Ago... The plans for
The Little Mermaid began long before
Sleeping
Beautys opening day, however. Disney Studios first began
conceptualizing or imagining what Ariel's story would look like on film
back in the 1930s.
An animator named Kay Nielsen who worked for Disney Studios at that
time began creating
The Little Mermaid with story sketches,
pictures that captured Ariel in different situations. She drew them with
watercolors and pastels and the Studio kept them until recently when
they picked up Ariel's story again.
Animators at Disney's modern studios studied Nielsen's drawings and
based
The Little Mermaid upon them. They gave Nielsen 'visual
development' credit for her work.
Effects That Are Special Ariel's film, The Little Mermaid, has another unique feature:
almost 80% of the film had special effects involved with the animation!
All those scenes with the crashing waves and the dancing under the sea –
all these incorporated the use of computers. No other Disney film had
as many special effects since
Fantasia – remember Mickey and the
dancing mops and buckets?
Poor Ariel!
Nobody understands Ariel – not her sisters; not her father, King
Triton; and certainly not Sebastian, the lobster Triton tells to keep
Ariel safe. She tries to follow the rules, but somehow she always seems
to get into trouble. She often wonders if there isn't somewhere else
that she can go where they understand what she loves best – humans.
A World Above The Sea Ariel collects all sorts of funny looking human contraptions from
ship wrecks and the ocean floor, but her favorite is the statue of
Prince Eric, the young prince that she rescues from drowning. When
Ursula, the evil sea witch, offers Ariel the chance to trade her
beautiful voice for human legs (instead of a mermaid's fin), Ariel can't
believe it. Her curiosity to see what it's like in the world above the
sea is too much to bear and she's off and running. Literally!