🌺 Interesting fact: Lilo & Stitch (2002) — To capture the authentic “hula” dance seen in the film, Disney took a camera crew to a renowned hula school to film the dancers as live-action reference. The resulting animation was not rotoscoped (traced), but instead carefully studied and hand-drawn to ensure the movements respected the traditional Hawaiian art form. The character of Stitch was originally created by the film’s co-director, Chris Sanders, in 1985 for an unsuccessful children’s book pi