One of the weird things about how Disney renders Mickey Mouse in 3D is that his ears don’t actually pan correctly when he turns his head. Instead, one just shifts up, as if it’s sticking out of his forehead. It’s a subtle visual cheat that I guess is easier than trying to render his ears as planear discs, but once noticed it’s very distracting … it’s like he always has two perfect spheres sliding around on his skull. Perhaps this technique was inherited from line-drawing animation days, I dunno. Related: the tangled ancestry of perpetual villain Pete, who is actually older than Mickey; in his first incarnation, he was a bootlegger during Prohibition.
