# How It's Clipped (@howitsclipped)

Engineering built into the stories you love.

Page: https://miu.fm/howitsclipped

## All stories

- [In Tarzan, Disney repainted the jungle for every single frame.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/in-tarzan-disney-repainted-the-jungle-for-every-single-frame.md) (2026-11-06)
- [Star Wars' Death Star plans: the computer took about two minutes for every frame.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/star-wars-death-star-plans-the-computer-took-about-two.md) (2026-11-04)
- [Sulley's 2.3 million hairs all move. Why did you never notice?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/sulley-s-2-3-million-hairs-all-move-why-did-you-never-notice.md) (2026-11-02)
- [Jack Skellington had hundreds of heads. Not one of them could move.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/jack-skellington-had-hundreds-of-heads-not-one-of-them-could.md) (2026-11-01)
- [Inside Out's Emotions are made of thousands of particles.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/inside-out-s-emotions-are-made-of-thousands-of-particles-so.md) (2026-10-28)
- [In 1982, a blob shaped like a dog was floated into a photo of a parking lot, and it looked](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/in-1982-a-blob-shaped-like-a-dog-was-floated-into-a-photo-of.md) (2026-10-27)
- [3 hours of work for under 1 second of film. How did Dracula stretch?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/3-hours-of-work-for-under-1-second-of-film-how-did-dracula.md) (2026-10-27)
- [Spider-Verse has no lens blur. So how does it tell you where to look?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/spider-verse-has-no-lens-blur-so-how-does-it-tell-you-where.md) (2026-10-26)
- [6-year-olds don't know Ed Sullivan. Why do they laugh at the Genie?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/6-year-olds-don-t-know-ed-sullivan-why-do-they-laugh-at-the.md) (2026-10-26)
- [Woody's face had seams hidden by hand. Geri's had none. How?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/woody-s-face-had-seams-hidden-by-hand-geri-s-had-none-how.md) (2026-10-25)
- [In 1974, a film made with a computer won a prize at Cannes and an Oscar nomination.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/in-1974-a-film-made-with-a-computer-won-a-prize-at-cannes.md) (2026-10-25)
- [WALL-E's director said they spent probably 90 % of their time putting in imperfections, ev](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/wall-e-s-director-said-they-spent-probably-90-of-their-time.md) (2026-10-24)
- [Cut a glowing lantern out one pixel at a time, in or out, and its glow turns into a hard s](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/cut-a-glowing-lantern-out-one-pixel-at-a-time-in-or-out-and.md) (2026-10-24)
- [Dead Cells' hero is 50 pixels tall, and nobody drew its shadows.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/dead-cells-hero-is-50-pixels-tall-and-nobody-drew-its.md) (2026-10-24)
- [The Good Dinosaur built all 800 of its skies. Guess what pushes a mountain 50 km back.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/the-good-dinosaur-built-all-800-of-its-skies-guess-what.md) (2026-10-23)
- [Big Hero 6's city had half a million lights, and one block was too big for 64 GB.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/big-hero-6-s-city-had-half-a-million-lights-and-one-block.md) (2026-10-22)
- [Push a camera into a painting and the moon swells.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/push-a-camera-into-a-painting-and-the-moon-swells-disney-s.md) (2026-10-21)
- [Four walkers, same figure, same stride. What changed?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/four-walkers-same-figure-same-stride-what-changed.md) (2026-10-21)
- [Elsa's ice palace follows a plan with 6 corners. Who drew that plan?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/elsa-s-ice-palace-follows-a-plan-with-6-corners-who-drew.md) (2026-10-20)
- [A red wall turns the floor pink. How did Up do it without rays?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/a-red-wall-turns-the-floor-pink-how-did-up-do-it-without.md) (2026-10-20)
- [Glen Keane studied 13 gorillas. So why does Tarzan move like a skater?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/glen-keane-studied-13-gorillas-so-why-does-tarzan-move-like.md) (2026-10-19)
- [One Coco shot had 7 million lights. So where are the bridge's lamps?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/one-coco-shot-had-7-million-lights-so-where-are-the-bridge-s.md) (2026-10-18)
- [Nobody animated this stumble. So who drew the catch?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/nobody-animated-this-stumble-so-who-drew-the-catch.md) (2026-10-18)
- [A thousand times the glitter, and the sparkle's gone. Why?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/a-thousand-times-the-glitter-and-the-sparkle-s-gone-why.md) (2026-10-17)
- [Pinocchio's flight over a whole village in 1940 was 1 painting. Painted bent.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/pinocchio-s-flight-over-a-whole-village-in-1940-was-1.md) (2026-10-17)
- [Same dead stop, two heads of curls. Which one is real physics?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/same-dead-stop-two-heads-of-curls-which-one-is-real-physics.md) (2026-10-17)
- [Nobody keyed this wind-up. One slider did. So what is the slider doing?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/nobody-keyed-this-wind-up-one-slider-did-so-what-is-the.md) (2026-10-16)
- [Nobody designed this body. Which of the four would you bet on?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/nobody-designed-this-body-which-of-the-four-would-you-bet-on.md) (2026-10-16)
- [Same yellow, same light. Why is one plastic and one gold?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/same-yellow-same-light-why-is-one-plastic-and-one-gold.md) (2026-10-15)
- [Same poses, same frames. One looks alive. Why?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/same-poses-same-frames-one-looks-alive-why.md) (2026-10-15)
- [How do you make people love a rat without making him a little human?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/how-do-you-make-people-love-a-rat-without-making-him-a.md) (2026-10-14)
- [Nobody animated this jump. So who added the wind-up?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/nobody-animated-this-jump-so-who-added-the-wind-up.md) (2026-10-14)
- [Nobody modelled this duck. It began as one flat line.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/nobody-modelled-this-duck-it-began-as-one-flat-line-so-how.md) (2026-10-13)
- [No screen, no software: in 1961 John Whitney melted a word into light with a machine.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/no-screen-no-software-in-1961-john-whitney-melted-a-word.md) (2026-10-13)
- [Nobody keyed this. It waves, scratches its head, blinks and glances about as it walks.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/nobody-keyed-this-it-waves-scratches-its-head-blinks-and.md) (2026-10-12)
- [Interstellar's first computer stars wouldn't stop flickering.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/interstellar-s-first-computer-stars-wouldn-t-stop-flickering.md) (2026-10-12)
- [3 rules. 20,000 birds. Nobody steers a single one. Can you guess the 3 rules?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/3-rules-20-000-birds-nobody-steers-a-single-one-can-you.md) (2026-10-11)
- [Up's house would need 20 to 30 million balloons. Guess how many Pixar put on screen.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/up-s-house-would-need-20-to-30-million-balloons-guess-how.md) (2026-10-11)
- [Spider-Verse held most poses for two frames. So when does it switch?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/spider-verse-held-most-poses-for-two-frames-so-when-does-it.md) (2026-10-10)
- [This star never gets brighter than white. So why does it look hotter?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/this-star-never-gets-brighter-than-white-so-why-does-it-look.md) (2026-10-10)
- [Seventeen musicians couldn't keep time with a drawing.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/seventeen-musicians-couldn-t-keep-time-with-a-drawing.md) (2026-10-09)
- [Points mean danger. So why is Joy a star?](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/points-mean-danger-so-why-is-joy-a-star.md) (2026-10-09)
- [Toy Story on one computer would have taken 43 years](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/toy-story-on-one-computer-would-have-taken-43-years.md) (2026-10-09)
- [How Tron's programmer invented noise (Perlin noise)](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/how-tron-s-programmer-invented-noise-perlin-noise.md) (2026-10-09)
- [Rendering Toy Story on one computer would have taken 43 years.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/rendering-toy-story-on-one-computer-would-have-taken-43.md) (2026-10-08)
- [Move only the shadow, and the ball flies.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/move-only-the-shadow-and-the-ball-flies.md) (2026-10-08)
- [Tron looked machine-made. So a programmer who worked on it invented noise.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/tron-looked-machine-made-so-a-programmer-who-worked-on-it.md) (2026-10-08)
- [750,000 glowing dots invented movie fire.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/750-000-glowing-dots-invented-movie-fire.md) (2026-10-07)
- [Every frame you love was engineered by someone.](https://miu.fm/howitsclipped/every-frame-you-love-was-engineered-by-someone.md) (2026-10-07)

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