See how the team at Disney handled over 2,000 shots and 8,000 elements, plus all the tricky technical stuff behind the scenes.

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Disney's Zootopia 2, now the studio's highest-grossing film ever and BAFTA winner for Best Animated Film, involved 697 crew members handling over 2,055 shots and 8,000 modeled elements. Maya was central to nearly every department for asset modeling, set building, and team coordination, with Flow Production Tracking managing the pipeline. Technical highlights include a custom scale-authoring tool called Scute for the snake character Gary De'Snake's 3,000 sculpted 3D scales, and a novel water simulation approach for the tube chase sequence where the team built practical physical tubes and developed new dielectric material rendering technology.

How Zootopia 2 Was Made Using Maya