Get your first look at this key new area of Riley’s brain.
What do you believe?
(Tony Halenow voices Fear and Liza Lapira voices Disgust in the new movie.)
Amy Poehler voices Joy and Phyllis Smith voices Sadness in ‘Inside Out 2’.Disney/Pixar
But its not merely new emotions this go-round; well also visit Rileys Belief System.
You have this promise to the audience to expand that world and to go deeper.
you could’t go different.
Phyllis Smith as Sadness in ‘Inside Out 2’.Disney/Pixar
They did that so beautifully with memories in the first film.
We started thinking about teenagers and how you start to become your own person.
You start to develop your own set of beliefs.
“Our beliefs certainly solidify as we get older.
That, in turn, led to the animators refining their design.
You’ve got those voices in your head that are good and bad,” he says.
“Then somebody had the idea of waveforms and plucking a string, like a guitar string.
That started to give us a visual language for it.
Holstein envisioned the Belief System as a near-sacred space; “the holy of holies, he describes.
It felt very temple-like being in a space where you could listen to the things that Riley believed in.
To hear them expressed instrumentally with Riley’s voice was a very emotionally impactful thing,” he says.
Its not all moral codes and a sense of good and evil either.
The Belief System has plenty of silly aspects, too.
Holstein points out, They could be things like, I believe dad’s beard will never go away.
The first film gave everyone a visual language to talk about their feelings, he reflects.
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