Elio’s Chipper Space Slug Glordon is a new competitor to the beautiful Pixar character

Boo from “Monsters Inc.” , “Finding Dory”. Jack Jack from “The Incredibles”. Points from “A Bug’s Life”, “Finding Nemo” and “Wall-E”-these are just some of the best characters that come from Pixar animation. But when “Elio” reaches the theaters this summer, we will add Glordon the Chipper Space Slug to this list.

“Elio” from the 11 -year -old Pixar follows Yunas Kibraeb, who has always felt a little place on the ground. After the death of his parents when he was young, he was placed in his aunt Olga (Zoe Saldana), a pioneer in the Air Force who put the aspirations of her pioneer in the event of waiting to take care of her nephew. Although she loves him to the moon and return, Elio still feels like a burden, and his only retreat is the hope that it will be kidnapped one day by foreigners and find a place where he feels belonging.

Therefore, you can imagine the excitement of ELIO when it is kidnapped by foreigners and transferred to a space station between the planets known as Communiverse, Another language in the space that had Pixar using a new technique to return to life. Of course, Eliu just exceeds his head when he pretends to be the leader of the Earth and tries his hand to stand up to Gregor, the rule of war princes on Hilorg, who was just deprived of his membership in groups (he is largely due to his aggression and his hot mood). But so he also meets his best friend: Glordon.

Glordon may look like a terrifying lamp without eyes and mouth full of endless rows of teeth, he is a gentle man, the most, the most delicate, and made it more adorned by young audio actor Remy Edgerley. Glordon will definitely be a favorite character of fans, although he may not fully understand what he means, Glordon will be a favorite character for fans, and his revival in life represented some challenge.

First, you only need to take a look at the latest “ELO” trailer for Pixar above to see how Glordon is adorable, especially when he enthusiastically introduces himself as a bargaining chip before pretending to be afraid of Elio in front of his father.

During a presentation on the Pixar campus campus in Emirville, California, We saw about 25 minutes of “Elio” clips. Production designer Harley Jessop:

“Glordon was a character in the story from the beginning, and he is one of our absolute favorites. We liked the idea of ​​taking a classic foreign creature, something that humans escape in instinctively, and gives this creature the sweetest personality, with the amazing voice of Remy, does not forget Glordon.”

As for the appearance of Glordon, Jessoub explained, “Glordon’s design was affected by our studies of larvae insects and amazing small creatures such as tardigrade. Finding the right balance in the inconvenience and wonderful was definitely a challenge, but I love one of the most crawl characters that put the biggest smile on our face.”

What you may not perceive immediately is that Glordon misses one major feature that has most characters: eyes. So, how is Glordon still expressing?

“The animation of the face of Glordon is very expressive, despite the fact that it has no eyes, and it is a real challenge to animation.”

Instead of eyes, Glordon has a large expressive mouth, and also has these small paintings on the back of his head adding another layer of emotional expression. The animation supervisor, Jude Brunapel, explained how these people became a little challenge:

“(Glordon) has these small paintings on his back, and we used a kind of that to indicate his mood, so they were manipulating when he was excited but also when he heard a sound, they will also interact. Since he does not have eyes, we played somewhat with the idea he was using, like the echo site to where he was in the room and knew where the sounds were coming.

Although this added to the Glordon character and its expression, it also eventually became too much to follow. Animation supervisor Travis Hathaway explained:

“There was a set of tests to see how much we should try to pay this in the movie, the idea that,” Oh, I listen, where are you? You are here! “We found that the more we pay attention to it, the more so,“ I do not need to know these things. ”And the more we leave these things small details that will give you more information without necessarily calling them. I immediately bought that this character has no eyes, but he is foreigner.

In addition, the masses will be busy with the gentle Glordon sound, and how it is from the vessels and the wonderful when it bounces around COMMUNIVERSE with ELIO, so that they will not be worried about these small details. If the masses pay attention to such a little thing, the film may not do its work well.

You will see how wonderful Glordon will hit “Elio” theaters on June 20, 2025.