I will never get over 1900’s Disney the stories were amazing, all the female protagonists had personalities besides just being cute and quirky, the art was just drop dead gorgeous specifically the background art and the villains were actually evil instead of having some backstory that makes them sympathetic, i would also argue that the movies were more interesting artistically especially Sleeping Beauty, the illuminated manuscript and medieval art style is just lovely. I wish that Disney would put the same effort into their new movies and create new stories instead of just creating live actions of every movie under the sun. Personally idc if we only got one movie every once in a while as long as they were the quality of the previous movies. Not to mention that 2d animation is much easier to achieve now than it was back then. Like can you imagine if encanto was in 2d animation and had a more distinct style.

Disney released their live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. Please spend your ticket money on supporting these mermaid-themed animation projects instead.

(Note: This is the repost from the comment that I have made on reddit. Search it if you want.)

Now that the live-action The Little Mermaid remake just came out in theaters, here are some on-going mermaid-themed animation crowdfunds you can support with your money on instead of purchasing tickets. (I am not sure if mods allow me to share them here.)

But for real, whenever Disney announce live-action remakes or finished and release them in theaters, someone needs to share a crowdfunding page for an independent 2D animation project. Instead of dreading and bemoaning over Disney abandoning 2D traditional animation and remaking their animated canons, why not support independent animators and their projects? Use our movie ticket money to help them instead of watching live-action remakes.

Syrenka: Legend of the Warsaw Mermaid - A hand drawn 2D animation feminist fantasy/drama short film based on the Warsaw Mermaid legend (directed by one of the animators of Netflix's Cupheads series). You can follow the animator here: https://twitter.com/NawrockiTina

THE LOVERS - An animated thriller about the romantic tension between a seafood chef and a siren, set in a dark fantasy Philippines.

Sirenetta: Part-Time Mermaid - a feature length animated film made by a Boston-based freelance animator and based on his animated short Sirenetta's Family Dinner. It's about a mermaid, her human fiancé, and their friends going on a global treasure hunt to stop evil Voda Yaga from draining the ocean of life.

And there are some recent traditional animated movies that felt more like the classic Disney animated canons. I am planning to watch all of them.

Bring back 2D animation >:(

hOW do i cancel the hollywood ppl that keep making the "HEEHEE ITS TIME FOR THE KIDDIE CATEGORY" jokes whenever theyre announcing best animated feature or short film like can we do this pls its so exhausting and disrespectful and never funny gOD

THE BOY AND THE HERON WON THIS YEAR AND WHEN I SAW IT IN THE THEATERS NEARLY EVERY SEAT WAS FILLED AND THERE WERE NO CHILDREN LMAO

Lammy || talking what’s not yours animation meme

I’ve been sick all week and finally getting over whatever I had so here’s a yucky collection of stuff (finally drawing all of the components too😫)

I liked your thoughts on diversity issues in the LA TLM. Would be happy to read your analysis of the whole movie.

Thank you for enjoying my thoughts! I think people are really blinded by the casting of Halle to realize that a film set in the Caribbean (TLM 2023) should not look like this:

It's also worthy of noting that the only two people of color in this picture aside from Halle are only featured via their voice- Halle's father, uncle, and love interest are all white- even Ariel's "alter ego" (ie the one who stole her voice and is using it, so should conceivably look enough like her to believably be the original owner of the stolen voice) is also a white British woman...such a missed opportunity. Especially since Disney doesn't have a black Prince (Naveen is South Asian).

Honestly, that specific fandom is probably the worst to interact with if you aren't blindly praising the movie. I think it was a mistake just like every other live-action Disney movie, which are always inferior versions of their original counterparts. I could get more granular but, again, I really don't feel like being countered on why this movie is the best ever and every choice was genius when I have a difference of opinion. I think the added lore was confusing and convoluted and never paid off, the design of the costumes and the worldbuilding was ugly tbh, I think they put WAY too many expectations on Halle and the character of Ariel to the point where it obliterated the very human and vulnerable components of her, they went against all of Howard's original notes of effect vs going broad, and Rob Marshall showed who he was multiple times by saying how he felt the original had a shallow love story that he never connected with, Eric was two dimensional character in the original, and just all the other negative things he said about Ron and John's great work while simultaneously ripping them off (Jodi's said multiple times that Ron kept mentioning to her during the screening that they used a ton of his lines from his original story treatment).

I think the performances were wooden, to put it mildly. And, honestly while a lot of this boils down to bad acting and lack of chemistry (Javier might give the worst performance I've ever seen in a film), it also isn't fair to have actors navigate a heavily CGI'd world compared to the medium of animation that has like four performances for a single character (between the many supervising and sequence animators a single character might have, their voice, the dialogue director, etc). In the original, you can see how Triton and Ariel keep interrupting one another in a masterclass of expressive animation and dimensional voice acting, they're almost one top of each other, and the heave Ariel musters as all the emotions build in her chest. We can feel how frustrated she feels at her inability to be heard and how she's fighting to keep her emotions from getting the best of her. Halle and Javier have a different dynamic, where they never really get that heated or emotionally charged and they're barely interrupting one another; they're super still, and the calm way with which she stares at him before swimming off...I'm sorry, this just isn't it for me lol the film isn't as bad as Lily's Cinderella but nothing ever will be lol

I think more people should learn how to manage their expectations and not be surprised that media conglomerates that are making live action remakes of animated movies less than a decade old aren’t taking risks

i’m just. never gonna be normal abt bravern 9 i think

how tf is the snapchat bitmoji shit gonna give an option to tuck your shirt into your pants but then this shirt only gets like 1/4th of the way tucked in. ill fucking kill you?

I saw it a few hours earlier and was too caught up with other things to say my immediate thoughts, BUT OH MY GOD ONCE UPON A STUDIO WAS WONDERFUL. I can totally see why it made so many people emotional because I got emotional too. ❤️

It was such a sweet love letter to Disney animation and all that they've brought to us over the years. And of course I loved the way all the characters interacted with each other and knew each other kinda like a family in a way. HOUSE OF MOUSE REBOOT WITH THIS CAST WHEN???

But anyway yeah, Imma watch it over and over again and fangirl over all the fantastic moments it had to offer. Also thinking about redrawing Fidget in that beautiful group photo at the end! Hoping to get a higher resolution of that image soon so I can see him in all his glory. <3

so the new fire emblem looks bad

man do they even make anime anymore that doesn’t use that weird janky 3d model animation… i don’t mind off-model frames, in fact i love them, i’ll take a thousand megukas over that soulless uncanny valley stuff

Put aside what you think of artist compensation/copyright/permission - if you say work used with AI tools isn't art, I will come over there and bite you and then hand you a cookie after and we'll talk about creative tool use. I want to support all of you in your rage and sadness, and there are other ways to do that without gatekeeping art. That will bite you in the ass.

also, needless to say but all of ariel's poses are taken directly from her original film in ralph breaks the internet

there's the obvious ones like the parallels below

but literally every single pose in the below scene is an exact walkthrough of ariel caps from the first movie