I had a chance to speak to Legato at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando recently and I asked him about the transition from the The Jungle Book to The Lion King and how they took what they learned from the first movie and applied it to the second.
Rob Legato won the Academy Award as the Visual Effects Supervisor on The Jungle Book, so it’s little surprise that Favreau also turned to him when it came time to work on The Lion King.
Legato says there were elements in the Jungle Book that they discovered were more difficult to do than others, and The Lion King allowed them to take another shot at it.