“I had been led to believe, like anyone else, that it was simply pretty girls who traced and colored. As I got into it, I learned about the landmark work accomplished by these women. These women were artists in their own right; they were animating and moving color and we don’t talk about that. We focus on men wielding pencils, but there were women wielding pencils as well.” -Mindi Johnson
#disney#animation#animation history#women#women in animation#animation industry#cel animation#sleeping beauty#us labor rights#bambi#cleanup animation#ink animation#paint animation#societal misogyny#1940s#but traditional cel animation is so easy right#(These were the things I was trying to explain during Tri and DigiAdv 2020 eras when people endlessly ragged hard on the animation)#(& we got completely ignored {+STILL} by the wider metafandom here when we tried to explain even a little of such concepts about Animation)#(yes even)#2d animation#(This is also why you can see such variation often wholly unintended in even color and shading techniques)#(including between different animators who havent worked together on past projects)#(But then I have to sit back & listen to people {+clearly younger than me} in the metafandom for my fandom *endlessly* 8+ years rant about)#('Oh but ANIMATION is sO EASY!!1!1! *EVERYONE* CAN EASILY DO IT *I* could *DO IT BETTER* than {COMPANY}')#(Well Why Dont You Then)#(Why dont YOU try animating an ENTIRE 50+ EP 'CLASSIC' 2D SERIES WITH MINIMAL HELP AND SEE HOW 'EASY' IT IS FOR YOU????)#(People think making a small series of high quality COMPUTER animations is even vastly comparable to making an ENTIRE SERIES *THIS* WAY)#(Even my own *AMV editing* can take upwards of 6+ hours to WEEKS~MONTHS & a lot of people here DONT REALIZE how hard these things can be!!)