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Simba's Back!

This summer, The Lion King returns in a remake of the 1994 film. Filmmakers use advanced computer animation to make the characters look real.

May/June 2019
By Alexa Kurzius

Entertainment Pictures/Alamy Stock Photo (1994); © 2019 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (2019)

Animators drew scenes for the original movie (above) by hand. The remake (left) uses high-tech computer animation to create a realistic look.

224,600,000

Within the first 24 hours, there were about 224.6 million online views of the new Lion King trailer.

522,126

The animation team studied 522,126 photos and videos of animals and nature to help them accurately create the characters and scenery.

150

Animators created a computer-generated movie set with an area of 150 square kilometers. It includes 20 ecosystems.

86

There are 86 species of animals in the movie.

0

No real-life animals were used to make The Lion King. But more than 1,800 humans worked behind the scenes to create 96 animal characters.

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