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"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

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.

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April 1st means

INUYASHAS BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

BEAUTIFUL BOI

Drawtober day 5 - Kaito sleeping and his ladies decided to snuggle up and join in.

A sketch I drew at school

Haha look what I found on IG explore (@mcm)

this is so wild

I’m watching Detective Conan for the first time and I’m on The Piano Sonata and Conan really just, is told the piano is cursed and immediately goes to play on it huh? Oh the last two people to play this piano died mysteriously? *cracks knuckles* my time has come.

IM NOT CRYING... YOURE CRYING