{"id":5367,"date":"2017-08-25T19:06:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T23:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/?p=5367"},"modified":"2017-08-25T19:06:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T23:06:13","slug":"new-coco-character-pepita-inspired-mexican-alebrijes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/new-coco-character-pepita-inspired-mexican-alebrijes\/","title":{"rendered":"New Coco character Pepita is inspired by Mexican alebrijes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/coco-will-world-premiere-mexicos-morelia-fest\/\">When the poster for<em> Coco<\/em>\u2019s premiere at Mexico\u2019s Morelia International Film Festival was revealed at the beginning of last month<\/a>, many of us noticed some familiar characters, including Miguel, Mama Coco, and Dante. But the identity of the strange winged-cat-creature at the bottom of the poster continued to baffle us all \u2013 until today!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"et\" dir=\"ltr\">Meet Pepita! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PixarCoco?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PixarCoco<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rMoBgjb0C9\">https:\/\/t.co\/rMoBgjb0C9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Te95yvtW3B\">pic.twitter.com\/Te95yvtW3B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lee Unkrich (@leeunkrich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leeunkrich\/status\/901121875912212480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/features\/film\/exclusive-meet-pepita-alebrijes-pixar-coco\/\">The beautiful new character Pepita was exclusively revealed today on Remezcla<\/a> \u2013 a news site focusing on new and emerging Latin culture and media. Pepita is based on an alebrije, which is an amazingly colourful Mexican sculpture of a fantastical animal. Particularly notable is the stylistic use of colour blocking and striking patterns. These influences are very apparent when looking at Pepita \u2013 a winged cat with horns, talons on her back feet, and contrasting colours of red, green, yellow and blue.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_5368\" style=\"width: 957px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com\/upcomingpixar\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pepita-Coco.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5368\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5368 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com\/upcomingpixar\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pepita-Coco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"947\" height=\"607\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pepita from Pixar&#8217;s Coco<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nPepita will act as a spiritual guide in the Land of the Dead. As alebrijes aren\u2019t traditionally associated with D\u00eda de los Muertos, it will be interesting to see what kind of creative spin the Coco team have given the holiday. She also won\u2019t have any dialogue, so the character has probably been quite a challenge to get right. Pixar always do a wonderful job when it comes to animating communication without any words (think of <em>Partly Cloudy, Piper, WALL\u2022E, <\/em>and <em>The Good Dinosaur<\/em>), so I have no doubt that Pepita will have just as much personality and emotion (if not more!) despite the lack of speech.<br \/>\n<em>Coco<\/em> will come to US theatres on November 22nd, and UK theatres on January 19th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>When the poster for Coco\u2019s premiere at Mexico\u2019s Morelia International Film Festival was revealed at the beginning of last month, many of us noticed some familiar characters, including Miguel, Mama Coco, and Dante. But the identity of the strange winged-cat-creature at the bottom of the poster continued to baffle us all \u2013 until today! 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