The minotaur is a crucial part of the Percy Jackson story.
Here is how the Disney+ series crafted its version.
But that all changes at the end of episode one of theDisney+series.
All at once, Percy Jackson discovers that everything he suspected, and more, is true.
That discovery takes the form of an angry nine-foot-tall minotaur.
Its a gear to catapult you into the world youre about to inhabit.
It is a game-changing moment for Percy, for the audience, and for the show itself.
You had to feel like there was real danger there.
One great thing was all the attention to detail.
We had breath coming out of his nostrils and water running down it.
The Minotaur is one of the all-time classic creatures of myth and legend.
We also really wanted it not to look like any other minotaur youve seen, White insists.
It meant making some unusual design choices.
Erik came to us with that from the beginning.
So that was a big part of the iterative design process.
The minotaur also had to tread a fine line.
It is a terrifying monster, but it is also a guy with a cows head.
It had to appeal to an audience of children and adults.
The guys were keen that it not be too scary, Henry emphasizes.
If you make it too doe-eyed, the adults watching it with their kids tune out.
Sometimes, they leaned even further into that silliness, however.
Little moments like that help take the edge off that tension in the middle of the battle.
Ultimately, about a third of the minotaur was constructed in real life.
It had horns to hold onto but no limbs or head.
It also had hairwhich became a challenge.
So, our intrepid coordinator in Vancouver spent the better part of two days basically giving it a haircut!
