


Coupled with game engine technology, they advanced the art of virtual production and produced visual effects and animation combined with a traditional physical production approach. With the Lion King, the creative team sort to take advantage of the revolution in consumer-grade virtual reality technology. With the traditional, iterative approach it can be frustrating for a director to direct a scene when he or she is only directing one component at a time. Disney’s The Lion King aimed to solve a classic VFX/animation problem, namely how to direct a story when the director can’t see all of the things that they are directing.
