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Kaeverspell

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I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

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Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

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People who r so desperate to paint every "original" fairy tale as being all super fucked up and dark and edgy are so funny lol. They're all like "The story that inspired Frozen was originally super dark guys–!" NO IT WAS TF NOT BITCH WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ????

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The thing with fairytales is that, folk stories as they are, they handle rather dark themes, but couched in layers of metaphor and of course a long, long game of cultural telephone. Lots of “dark” takes of fairytales are just peeling the metaphor off. Which isn’t bad in and on itself, but it doesn’t kill to admit it!

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When I say some people try to paint every fairytale as "dark and edgy", what I mean is that they want to paint those stories as "explicit" and "inappropriate for kids". They take the examples of fairytales that are, for instance, explicitly sexual and gory, and then they try to imprint this narrative into every story no matter how little sense it makes. Some do it for pure sensationalism and views, but others do it for this strange human desire to be a part of some "dark secret" gossip. "Isn't it cool!?" "Isn't it fun!?" "Guys it's like, So Bad. It's So Bad can you believe it!?" is what they think. So these people will look at, for instance, The Snow Queen, and they'll be like "Guys, in the Dark Origins of Frozen there's an Evil mirror made by the Devil! Isn't that Dark!?" And like, no, it's not. That's regular shit you'd find in modern kids' entertainment. And saying that's oh so scary and inappropriate for kids makes the person saying it sound silly and like a complete fool who's trying to sound "cool".

Now if there is, as you say, some dark cultural context in The Snow Queen i have missed, please share it. But merely "dark metaphors" does not a "dark" story make, not with the meaning I'm describing here. (Though i guess those ppl would try to pull that crap anyway)

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gameshow voice: is it gay subtext or are the writers just so catastrophically bad at writing female characters that the only relationships in the entire story that feel human are the ones between the men.

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dressing the way i do is so funny because everyone thinks i’m a weirdo except for literally every old woman i run into. they all adore my silly little hat and my awesome cloak and my big big skirt

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old women love me

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I do love that when the Heated Rivalry’s show runner was asked about casting queer actors to play queer characters he ignored the bait and was just straight up like “You can’t ask that. That’s illegal.” lmao because yeah. It is. Weird how a lot of discourse on this subject acts like this is not a factor.

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Reblogged redstonedust
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Finding some random artists OC and getting so incredibly attached to the character and design out of nowhere like hi. I’ve just met you and your Pet Freak. I’m going to Monitor You so I can one day catch another sighting of your Pet Freak

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