Similar to Tangled, Frozen employed a unique artistic style by blending features of both computer-generated imagery (CGI) and traditional hand-drawn animation together. From the beginning, Buck knew Giaimo was the best candidate to develop the style he had in mind, which would draw from the best Disney hand-drawn classics of the 1950s, the Disney Little Golden Books and mid-century modern design—and persuaded him to come back to Disney to serve as the art director for Frozen. Buck, Lasseter and Giaimo were all old friends who had first met at CalArts and Giaimo had previously served as the art director for Disney's Pocahontas (1995), which Buck had worked on as a supervising animator.
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