Stitch is a blue koala-like alien standing around three feet tall. The production team later established Sanders as the official voice of his own character after getting used to his vocalizations. However, when the Lilo & Stitch production team realized that the film's story "hinged" on the character being able to explain himself at the end of the film, Sanders provided vocals for Stitch during early animation. The character was originally meant to be incapable of speaking intelligibly. Test audience response to early versions of the film resulted in the change of Stitch and Jumba's relationship to that of creation and creator, respectively. In later development for the film's story, the character was originally going to be the leader of an intergalactic gang of criminals, with Jumba being one of his former cronies summoned by the Intergalactic Council to capture him. When Sanders said that the alien character was going to crash-land in a forest filled with other animals, Schumacher told Sanders that the animal world was already "overly alien" to humans, and suggested that the character should end up in the human world to provide better contrast and juxtaposition for the story. The idea for the character was shelved until around 1996 when then-President of Walt Disney Feature Animation Thomas Schumacher approached Sanders and asked him if he wanted to a pitch a story, giving Sanders the opportunity to use his character again. Sanders originally created the character in 1985 for an unsuccessful children's book pitch, and developed a treatment for an animated feature featuring the character.
This section needs expansion with: Needs further history of how the character was created and developed. He became a firm believer of the ʻohana concept, and with the help of Lilo applied it to reform Jumba's 625 prior experiments, nearly all of whom Stitch treats as his " cousins". Through Lilo's beliefs in the Hawaiian concept of ʻohana, meaning ' family', Stitch evolved from an uncaring, destructive creature to a loving, more self-conscious being who enjoys the company of his adoptive family on Earth. Stitch is marked by his mischievous behavior, which endeared him to Lilo, who adopted him as her " dog". Jumba Jookiba to cause chaos across the galaxy. In the franchise's chronology, he was originally created by Dr. Benjamin Diskin voices the character in the English versions of the Eastern-produced television spin-offs Stitch! and Stitch & Ai. Stitch was created by Lilo & Stitch co-writer and co-director Chris Sanders, who also voices him in all Western-produced media that he appears in. An illegally-made, genetically-engineered, extraterrestrial life-form resembling a blue koala, he is one of the franchise's two title characters, alongside his human adopter and best friend Lilo Pelekai, and its most prominent protagonist. Stitch (also known by his species/"birth" name Experiment 626 number pronounced as "six-two-six") is a fictional character in Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise. Super-sensitive hearing and sense of smell.Retractable claws, antennae, spines, and lower pair of arms.Skilled hand-to-hand combat with four arms.