![]() ![]() In Bambi II, Bambi is much more distinctly personalized. Nature photographer Maurice Day spent months in a forest in Maine, recording animals for the animators, as well. Disney also had Rico LeBrun, a painter of animals, come to the studio to lecture on the structure and movement of animals. However, human models were also used for one scene: actress Jane Randolph and Ice Capades star Donna Atwood acted as live-action references for the scene where Bambi and Thumper are on ice. The naturalistic animation in the first film was helped by a pair of four-month-old fawns sent to the studio by Maine game wardens. As he grows, he gradually becomes more mature, but even in young adulthood, he seems a very young buck with a delicate build and a fairly naïve nature. ![]() In his early youth, Bambi has wide eyes, spindly legs, a curious nature and high-pitched voice. Bambi, as with most of his friends, could be any deer in any forest. In the first film, Bambi is not very strongly personalized to strengthen the environmental perspective of the film. Adult Bambi, along with his friends Thumper (bunny) and Flower (skunk). ![]()
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