00:07the place is amazing oh it's nice i guess sure i'm not really into things
00:19come on this is gonna be fun
00:24we had a huge opportunity to create around the notion of grue's past we started to play around
00:32this idea of of this long-lost brother that he didn't know he had twin brother twin brother
00:37so then we started to explore well then how would this new brother be introduced back into his life
00:44the creation of that character really came down to one core idea that
00:51his brother was going to be his opposite finally i'm meeting you yeah yep he's very light he's very
00:58silly he's extremely buoyant he's all of these things that grue doesn't necessarily have there
01:07was a lot of kind of conflict and sibling rivalry that you could play with and we just thought that
01:12would just be a great pair to see on screen together the police are gonna get us we tried to
01:19find so
01:20many different ways to differentiate drew and grue's character in terms of their emotions and their
01:25personalities but visually we wanted to go for something even more graphic where drew is always
01:30in white and grue is always in black oh i chihuahua i call the black one who is more hunched
01:38and drew is
01:38a bit more abstract and is always smiling i think there is a visual distinction between
01:44grue and drew which is light and dark and that really does speak to their personalities but we also
01:50have fun with what is really inside of those characters the one that's light maybe he's not
01:54always light the one that's in dark maybe there's some light inside of they do share a lot more than
01:58they actually know what might seem like a polar opposite personality at first isn't necessarily that
02:05when we get to know drew a little bit better and we start to see his more vulnerable side
02:09that we can start to sympathize with him in a way that you need to for the story and if
02:13you didn't
02:14have that it loses its balance between you know the drew-grue relationship you're gonna be just fine
02:19i got your back when steve carell first started to explore drew's character we showed him artwork tried
02:25to show him give him some visual cues about who this guy is we played around a lot with how
02:29high his voice was
02:31and how he spoke the tempo of his voice he wanted to make sure that the two of them were
02:36vocally
02:36distinct when he started laughing like drew that unlocked the whole character and then when you
02:45finally start to narrow in on something you start you start to kind of get a sense of who this
02:49guy is
02:50then it starts to to fall into place oh face it groovability it's still in your blood you can't
02:56tell me you don't miss the rush just a little bit usually i would do uh one of the characters
03:02first
03:03and do all of those lines as that character and then i'd go back and i would do the other
03:07side and
03:08i would do the the character of the brother whoa whoa wait so our dad was a villain the movies
03:15work i think because they're broad and funny and fun but there's also an emotional resonance that
03:23runs through the center of them and in this movie part of that revolves around the discovery of a half
03:30of your family that you never knew it's always exciting to animate new characters like drew i i
03:35can't tell you how many times i've impressed my kids friends by pulling out the grew voice every now
03:40and then hey i thought we said no more villainy but now with any luck i'll be able to pull
03:47out the drew
03:48voice and get the same reaction sorry brother somebody's got to keep the family tradition alive
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