AnimationSeries· 2002· Comedy

Lilo & Stitch

by Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois

Lilo & Stitch: it draws on 3 recorded sources.

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What influenced Lilo & Stitch

The works this one is recorded as drawing on.

Dumbo

Animation · 1941

InfluenceHIGH

Chris Sanders named Dumbo as one of the two biggest influences on Lilo & Stitch for its focused story and simple art direction, and chose watercolour backgrounds, unused at Disney for sixty years, to match its look.

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Bambi

Animation · 1942

InfluenceHIGH

Bambi was the other of Sanders' two biggest influences: the purity and nostalgia of early Disney, and the painted watercolour world that Lilo & Stitch revived.

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Real-world influences

Events, places, movements and ideas outside fiction that this work is recorded as drawing on.

Culture

Real world

Real-world influenceHIGH
  • Hawaiian culture

Set on Kauaʻi, the film builds its story on hula, Hawaiian music and the idea of ʻohana, family.

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About the work

Lilo & Stitch

This is a series.

A lonely Hawaiian girl being raised by her older sister, with a social worker deciding whether they stay together, adopts what she believes is a dog. It is an escaped genetic weapon designed to destroy everything it touches. Watercolour backgrounds, used for the first time since Dumbo, and a film really about a family about to be split up.

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