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Robin miles voice actor12/29/2023 Co-director Gary Trousdale noted that Fox, despite being in his late thirties at the time, could still project a youthful exuberance needed to voice a character like Milo. Fox enjoyed not having to worry about the way he looked and could do what he needed, be it contorting himself, in order to project the right emotion through his voice. (another science fiction animated feature, directed by Don Bluth) and left it to his son to decide. Fox reportedly had to decide between this film and Titan A.E. Because Milo appeared in virtually every scene of the film, he was one of the few characters requiring a team of animators working under Pomeroy. Pomeroy has also noted that Milo was the closest in his then thirty years in the business that he had animated a self-portrait. Pomeroy had the unique challenge of trying to figure out what a linguist looked like and, according to Marc Okrand, who developed the Atlantean language for the film, used him as a basis for the design of the character. The supervising animator of Milo was John Pomeroy. There was an early concept that Milo was the descendant of Blackbeard the pirate, but that was abandoned in favor of Milo discovering his inner self and love for exploration rather than his inner pirate. Heroes, in general, have been widely regarded as the least interesting for animators to work on, so the filmmakers sought to develop Milo as a character with a great deal of personality. The development of Milo as a hero was a difficult one for the filmmakers. Tried out for Rowing Team, 1899 (rejected) Archery Team, 1900 (rejected) Debate Team, 1900 (accepted) Cricket Team, 1901 (rejected) and Chess Team, 1902 (accepted). Graduated Buford Beaumont High School at age 11, accepted (and declined) admission at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Universities for advanced academic studies, 1895. Milo took after his grandfather with regard to his affinity and passion for languages and antiquities. Having been orphaned by a railway accident in 1885, Milo Thatch was raised and educated by his grandfather Thaddeus Thatch (see related files: Archeological Expeditions led by, Diplomatic Relations brokered through, Patents held by, and Georgetown Incident).
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