I’ve realized I don’t like animated “anthro animal” movies when there’s 1. No point of them being animals or 2. Them being animals isn’t taken advantage of world building and design wise.

Real talk tho, my biggest gripe with SING is the fact that having all the characters be anthro animals was kinda unnecessary. If anything, I think people would be able to relate to and enjoy the characters more if they were actual humans. Cos that’s the thing, them being animals in the movie is seriously… Wasted I guess? They all move and act like humans, there was no interesting factors to be brought in by them being animals. 

And I know what you’re thinking: Oh, well that’s the point of anthro animals, they’re supposed to move and act like humans. 

Which I understand! But, there should still be some creative liberties you when making characters (who could have easily been humans) as animals. 

For example:

Aside from a few nods to their “ original animal behavior”, everyone really does just behave like human people, and as previously stated, I feel a better connection could have been made with these characters if you made them humans; them being animals feels almost gimmicky in this movie. 

But with Kung Fu Panda on the other hand:

It almost ALWAYS takes into account that these characters are animals, which adds so much charm to them and really opens up a lot of creative opportunities for world building and character interactions. 

Like, this is a super obvious/minor addition in the animation, but I always loved how they have Monkey walk on his knuckles

It would have been super easy to just have him walk on both feet, with practically little to no complaints I think. 

Anyways, I didn’t think that far ahead so I have no way to wrap this up, thank you for coming to my TED talk and remember to wash your hands. 

Zootopia (2016) dir. Byron Howard & Rich Moore

This was a big deal once.

Look at the CG animation on hair now:

oh my god, i remember watching the special features of the incredibles and they kept saying how difficult violet’s hair was to animate.

excuse me i think we’re forgetting someone else’s beautiful hair

YOU’RE RIGHT

Are we really overlooking the Disney/Pixar character with 2,320,413 individually animated hairs?

can’t forget this lil Dreamworks lady’s hair

One of the senior animators actually spent six fucking years trying to write a new program to animate Rapunzel’s hair.

adding to the comment above, it turns out that disney had to actually hire someone with a PhD in animating human hair to get rapunzel’s hair correct

a PhD in hair

Imagine hearing about Disney need someone with a hair PhD and finally being able to say:

“This is my time”.

AND THEN THERE WAS THIS REVOLUTION

That’s amazing

A single giraffe in Zootopia has 9 million hairs

i don’t know how i know it but this is Liam Neeson’s fursona 100%

#i dont know who you are but i ill find you and i will sniff your asshole

they’re evolving 

I was thrilled to pieces when I saw this scene. Disney could have written Gideon off like some bully character who never really amounted to anything, or got what was coming to him like a lot of those characters do in their movies.  Gideon made something of himself. He’s a pastry chef, something that’s not traditionally a job for men in media. And as soon as Judy speaks to him, he immediately apologizes to her. He doesn’t try to shrug it off as no big deal, or say that it was just boys being boys or whatever; he knows he hurt her, and he owns up to it. And Judy immediately forgives him. 

Well done, Disney. 

Also the language that he used is not something that he would have most likely grown up hearing/using. Describing his failings as self-doubt that manifested into “unchecked rage and aggression” sounds SO MUCH like therapy speak. So he’s either gotten counseling to help him with some of his problems, or sought out literature to help himself. A++ disney :)

This movie is a treasure.

I see no difference

One of the many things that makes cosplay so awesome is that absolutely anyone can do it. The Department of Awesome Parenting salutes the Cosplay Parents, a mother and father duo who, inspired by their cosplaying daughter, are taking advantage of their retirement to cosplay their hearts out.

They like to cosplay complementary, age-appropriate characters such as Carl and Ellie from Pixar’s movie Up (as though Ellie survived to go adventuring with Carl) or Captain America and Peggy Carter as though they were able to grow old together. Awww!

Follow the Cosplay Parents on Facebook to check out more of their delightful and heartwarming costumes.

[via Fashionably Geek]

Post #2: Cosplay Parents prove that age is no limit to the awesomeness of one’s cosplay!

This made me laugh for a couple of minutes it is so hilarious and cute!

This is the best joke Disney has ever made. 

Judy Hopps deaths • Carrot Days Talent Show (1m26) // Natural History Museum of Zootopia (1h31)

I was thrilled to pieces when I saw this scene. Disney could have written Gideon off like some bully character who never really amounted to anything, or got what was coming to him like a lot of those characters do in their movies.  Gideon made something of himself. He’s a pastry chef, something that’s not traditionally a job for men in media. And as soon as Judy speaks to him, he immediately apologizes to her. He doesn’t try to shrug it off as no big deal, or say that it was just boys being boys or whatever; he knows he hurt her, and he owns up to it. And Judy immediately forgives him. 

Well done, Disney. 

Also the language that he used is not something that he would have most likely grown up hearing/using. Describing his failings as self-doubt that manifested into “unchecked rage and aggression” sounds SO MUCH like therapy speak. So he’s either gotten counseling to help him with some of his problems, or sought out literature to help himself. A++ disney :)

Zootopia (2016) dir. Byron Howard and Rich Moore

It is so important to me that a kids movie had this conversation in it

This movie gave an entire generation of children a script for how to handle this issue. It showed marginalized kids that it’s okay to call people out, and gave them a script for how to do so firmly but with compassion

It also gave privileged kids a script for how to respond to being called out– which is to listen, have compassion, apologize, and never do the problematic thing again

It also managed to convey this to all the adults who brought their kids to the movies, and all the rest of us who just went because we wanted to

This scene is so important to me

i don’t know how i know it but this is Liam Neeson’s fursona 100%

#i dont know who you are but i ill find you and i will sniff your asshole