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You know the main problem with the “live action” Lion King? Why it looks so lifeless?

The hyper realistic style is actually limiting the animators, rather than freeing them. The style makes it much harder to have memorable character designs and good expressions. Real lions don’t need to do things like emote in a way that humans can understand – but characters in a film do. The original movie was more cartoony not due to animation limitations of the time, but because that style genuinely serves the story better.

To show you what I mean, compare these two shots of Simba, from right after Scar says “run away and never return.”

Here is a clear reaction, with a strong beat for us to connect with before the character makes a decision. Even without any dialogue, even without any context, you can understand the emotion there just by the expression and the mannerisms. Is it realistic? No! He’s bright yellow and has eyebrows. But do we empathize with him? Yes!

Meanwhile, here is… a lion. Turning and running. No expression, no beats, no character moments, nothing. He actually can’t express himself because the animators are locked into the realistic style. If they tried to animate a strong expression as warranted for the scene, it would look terrible. Is it realistic? Hell yeah! Look at those textures! Look at that fur! But do we empathize with him? …nah. Not really.

To conclude: when you’re retelling Hamlet with a bunch of animated lions, cartoonish-ness is your friend, not your enemy.

i’m a little late, but i wanted to make a little smth for adventure time’s 10th anniversary! i still remember seeing the commercials announcing this “new show” when I was like 8.. now i’m 18 and i never would’ve thought it would come to be such an important part of the person i have become! thank you for the good memories, i’m honored that i had the opportunity to grow up alongside Finn :’)

"Even a man who is pure in heart,

And says his prayers by night,

May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms,

And the moon is full and bright." -Curt Siodmak

"And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

Unplanned companion to this Murderer, Shinichi Kudo piece from a few days ago.

I'm blaming this one entirely on my brother lmao

I thought I was done with this concept, like I had NO plans to continue representing this idea in this particular aesthetic, but then as we're watching Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small, completely unprompted he hits me with this fuckin curveball:

"Do you think [Shinichi] thinks of himself as a murderer?"

And I just. Man

To be fair... I don't think I'll ever be done with the idea of a more emotionally-driven revenge story than what we're given for Shinichi, and the temptation of vigilantism in his pursuit of it, but I wasn't ready to start thinking about it agaaainnnn

Bought a second hand car a few months back. Last week the CD player started making weird noises. I've never used it before (because it's 2021, ya know). Today I get in car and it starts playing a CD that I swear was not there before.

Honest truth, I eject it and its a Best of Queen album.

It is a true thing...

in my defense, your honor, a criminal organization murdered my dad and then i found a secret room in my bedroom with vinyls recorded by said dad instructing me on how to take on a criminal life, so what else was i supposed to do?

Detective Conan doodles