Shifting protagonists.

The story at the heart of Zootopia is fairly unique for a Disney flick

and it turns out that it actually changed a lot during the latter part of production.

Instead of telling the story from the perspective of do-gooder Judy Hopps,

the original story largely took place from the viewpoint of the wily fox, Nick Wilde.

Director Byron Howard explained that the story took a huge shift midstream

because it was hard to actually like Nick.

Howard also made it clear that he wanted audiences to start to fall for Nick

at the same time as Judy does, and that proved difficult when he was presented as the hero from the get-go.

Global Newscasters.

For the most part, Zootopia was pretty much the same film

no matter which country or market you watched it in.

But there was one subtle change that most people didn't even know about ; the animal newscaster.

Disney tailored the character to animals that were popular and a good fit for each country.

In the US and Canada, we saw a moose.

In Japan, it was a tanuki.

Australia got a koala, and in China it was a panda.

This is a cool thing to do, but most people would never even have noticed it,

unless they went on a worldwide tour of Zootopia viewings.

Shakira 's curvy demands.

This is a Disney movie, after all, so of course it had to feature a catchy musical number.

That fell to real life singer Shakira, who voiced the animal pop star, Gazelle,

and gave us the hit song, " Try Everything ".

But Shakira also had some pull when it came to her character 's look.

The early drawings of Gazelle were apparently very skinny.

So, Shakira asked the designers to give her character some curves.