Moana’s Final Design
Moana’s final design has a much more normal body type, which audiences loved because she looked like a real adolescent girl. Writer John Musker explained the changes in the character, “We wanted this action adventure heroine. We really did want her to feel like she had legs that could really swim and scale a tree and jump off a cliff. She could really believably carry all that stuff, and it wouldn’t look like she’d be overpowered by her own environment but that she could physically take charge and command a boat across the ocean.”