Raya and her companion Tuk Tuk look to adventure on the horizon; the light almost becomes a character in the film’s visual design
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antasy and reality are often never really far apart; one informs and inspires the other, and in the cultures of South East Asia the tradition of dragons is rich, wide and deep. Indeed, dragons have a longstanding place in movies and, in part, that’s surely because it’s a beast with such visual potential. Tapping into that visual possibility is the new movie from Disney Animation, Raya And The Last Dragon. It’s the studio’s 59th animated feature and it takes various points of inspiration and influences from the images of South East Asia in the creation of a brandnew fantasy adventure.
3D World had an opportunity to get more of an insight into how the breath of animated life brought a fictional world of beasts and humans to life on the screen.
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aya And The Last Dragon
is set in the fantasy world of Kumandra where, long ago, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the fractured land and unite its divided people.