Saturday, 12 October 2013 05:41 pm
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deckardcanineMy mom showed me and my sister this article and asked for our thoughts. She liked my response well enough that I'll post it here:
From what I can tell, women may be the more emotive if not the more emotional sex, but I doubt their emotions are any more complicated or difficult to capture. Men, being the majority of creators in the business, just need more practice at recognizing how we're different and not so different. And as long as men don't have to be constantly handsome, let's not be afraid to let a woman stop being pretty for a while.
Lots of people think of Rapunzel when they see these images. Heck, the adjectival title is enough to evoke Tangled. I suspect that Disney feels a need to take baby steps in innovation, so much of it is hackneyed on purpose. They don't want preexisting fans to feel left in the dust. Probably most giants are slow to change.
I appreciate the article's hyperlink to the Bechdel Test. Of course, what we know so far is no guarantee that Frozen passes.
From what I can tell, women may be the more emotive if not the more emotional sex, but I doubt their emotions are any more complicated or difficult to capture. Men, being the majority of creators in the business, just need more practice at recognizing how we're different and not so different. And as long as men don't have to be constantly handsome, let's not be afraid to let a woman stop being pretty for a while.
Lots of people think of Rapunzel when they see these images. Heck, the adjectival title is enough to evoke Tangled. I suspect that Disney feels a need to take baby steps in innovation, so much of it is hackneyed on purpose. They don't want preexisting fans to feel left in the dust. Probably most giants are slow to change.
I appreciate the article's hyperlink to the Bechdel Test. Of course, what we know so far is no guarantee that Frozen passes.
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This is key. It's also different from his earlier "keep them pretty."
Accurate, on-model, expressions of emotions like anger or disgust are NOT going to be pretty. These emotions distort the face in ways that are mutually exclusive with pretty. In particular, with disgust, you cannot have "pretty" and "on-model" without wandering into "uncanny." The solution is to surrender "pretty" just as one might have to with a live actress. "Uncanny" is as bad as it can get in animation.
It should be noted, that it is possible to achieve uncanny even with a live actress these day, through the wonders of BoTox. That too looks bad on film.