

#JESSICA RABBIT FIGURE FULL#
Animators didn’t realize it remained in the film till its debut and just hoped no one would notice.Īll in all, the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was chaotic and full of on-the-spot thinking.

The original design remains in the movie, which is in the newspaper article that Roger Rabbit reads about her “cheating” on him by playing patty cake with Marvin Acme. Once an artist could successfully draw Jessica moving, they could begin to work on Roger. A creative solution was then born to make Jessica Rabbit curvy for the sake of practice. It’s also used in animation to make things bounce. The creatives were young and problem solved often with the issues of cartoon characters appearing in the real world and vice versa, but a vast majority didn’t understand the artistic design process of “squish and stretch.” This principle is used largely in the movement for high-energy characters and posed a problem when animating Roger Rabbit. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was a huge project creatively and a lot of young creators worked on the project as its oddball nature didn’t lure that many artists in. Until, one day, it stuck as a solution for animators. Upon seeing the design, Kathleen Turner was a little disappointed and decided to tease her mostly male colleagues about the idea of her being over-the-top sexy. The change to her appearance came when Jessica’s voice actress, Kathleen Turner, saw the design and realized the character was “pretty, not sexy.” She started to tease the animators about adding her long legs to the character and said, “wouldn’t it be funny to have big you-know-what’s on her?” Ironically, she wasn’t always supposed to have her famous figure instead, she looked more like your average princess. “I am not bad, I'm just drawn that way,” Jessica Rabbit seductively says.
