Is this selection of personnel from the future film “Lilo and Stitch” true?

In February 2025, almost a dozen images were distributed on social networks, which allegedly show how the title hero of the famous Disney cartoon will look in the future film reward. We checked the authenticity of these personnel.

In viral publications, up to nine photos are presented, which are claimed, they are shots from the upcoming full -length film “Lilo and Stich”. At the same time, only the second title hero, a blue alien, is captured in all images. The authors of some posts also compared scenes from the original cartoon with the alleged personnel of the film version.

The most popular such records were on VKontakte, where they were published by public Nr (672,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Rhymes and Panchi"(633,000)," Hell's Kitchen: Nonpoiler "(twice: 490 000 And 41 000), Netflix (136,000), "World PlayStation" (129,000), Marvel / DC: Geek Movies (115 000), Kosti Bloggers (113,000), Marvel / DC (66,000), “Popcorn: Nonpoler” (twice: 57 000 And 32 000) and other similar posts are found in Telegram channels, among which "Rhymes and Panchi"(187,000 views),"Medica"(173 000) and Kosti (139,000), as well as on Instagram*, where he wrote, for example, an account of the Belarusian cinema network Skyline Cinema. News notes with the same selection released entertainment sites PlayGround And Animation Club.

Photo: screenshots of posts from the site vk.com and from the TGSTAT service

"Lilo and Stich»From Walt Disney was released in 2002 and was nominated For the Academy Award in the category "Best Animated Film". According to the plot, the girl Lilo, who was living on Hawaii, made friends with a sweet look like an alien named Stich. The premiere of the same name Cinema Planned At the end of May 2025.

By the time of writing this analysis, studio Published Several official promoters of the upcoming film, including posters, teasers and personnel. However, images from a viral selection are not presented either on the site or on the social networks of Walt Disney, or in the film rollers. In addition, a blue alien from the distributed personnel externally differs from the hero, which is shown on already released materials.

Official posters. Photo: Walt Disney

All publications mentioned at the beginning of this text are given, as it turned out, cropped images. With the help of a reverse search, you can find the full versions of the same pictures, and in all cases, in the lower left corner there is a barely noticeable wrapper with Latin letters J and H.

On February 10, 2025, the images from the distributed selection were published on the platform ArtStation The 3D artist living in the Czech Republic Juan Hernández. Later in your own Instagram The author himself Placed cut versions of the same pictures.

Ernandez previously worked on large film projects. So, he himself He wrotewhat for the film "Imaginary friends»With Ryan Reynolds helped to create more than ten characters. However, judging by the signatures in the artist’s posts, he did not participate in the creation of “Lilo and Stich”. Ernandes said that this is his version of a realistic Stich, which he did as an exercise on visual development. “This is a wonderful character, it was very interesting for me to work on him. It seemed to me that this is an excellent design, and the technical task, especially with putting hands and simultaneous work with wool. I tried to reconstruct the original design and looked for small elements that could bring realism, while remaining true to the original, ”said Ernandes.

On the left - a fragment of the frame from Disney, on the right is the design from Ernandes. Photo: Walt Disney / Juan Hernández

According to the artist, he also decided to make several cinematographic personnel, repeating scenes from the cartoon-pioneer. Moreover, on his page on ArtStation, not nine, but ten such images are published.

Photo: Collage "Tested" / Walt Disney / Juan Hernández

In addition, the author shared several videos with an animated version of his Stitch, and also demonstrated some stages of his creation.

Video: Juan Hernández

Thus, the authors of large publics on VKontakte, Telegram channels and entertainment sites gave out unofficial fan arts for genuine shots from the upcoming film.

This is not the first similar case associated with Stich. Back in 2019 (long before filming the film render) in social networks distributed Another image of this character, claiming that he will look like this in the future film.

Photo: screenshots of posts from the site vk.com

It turned out that it was a drawing of a concept artist Boris Kiselitsky From Germany. He Published their work back in 2016, and later explainedthat she has nothing to do with the film from Disney. On the uncircumcised version of the art, there was also a wrapper of the author.

Photo: Boris kiselicki

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Instagram, is prohibited by an extremist organization, its activities and symbolism in Russia.

Photo on the cover: Juan Hernández

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