![]() ![]() ![]() It's worth noting that by “baby face,” what TheNamelessDoll means is the “huge eyes + big head + tiny body” look, which she further describes as “when animated women are designed to have the same main features as babies/children.” The results of her tinkering are women with eyes that are smaller and more in proportion with the rest of their faces, lending a slightly more realistic look to these otherwise still fictional women.Īs Dan Van Winkle over at The Mary Sue wrote, though, we can all still talk about whether or not they're an improvement. ![]() Their faces, however, do have more human-like proportions, particularly when it comes to the eyes - which, in turn, tones down the “baby-faced” quality most of these characters were designed to have. We're not looking at representations of the characters if they were actual humans or anything for that matter, we're not even looking solely at Disney characters ( Mavis from Hotel Transylvania, for example, hails from Sony Animation). I'm not going to call the reworked images flat-out “realistic Disney characters,” because they're still not indicative of the proportions of most - or, y'know, any - real, flesh-and-blood people. But now, Tumblr user and digital artist TheNamelessDoll has created a series of Disney characters with slightly more realistic proportions - and while the project was initially begun simply as an exercise in image manipulation, they've inspired an absolutely fascinating conversation. Take, for example, the typical character designs of the female characters: They're all traditionally beautiful, and these days, they all have the same slightly child-like look to them, no matter how old they are. (via the gender stereotypes on display in the first trailer for Inside Out is not helping matters.As I've remarked numerous times before (as have many others), I love Disney movies… but I'm often still critical of them. If you want literally dozens of examples of other characters omitted from the list see the other comments below. All the princes and male romantic leads in these movies have the same face shape as well but NO, she takes old men and villains and comedy relief characters to "prove" how sexist animation is. Yes the face shapes are all softer feminine shapes, but they purposely didn't include female characters from those same movies with less feminine faces, like Edna Mode in The Incredibles, or the Witch or the Cook in Brave, or any of the older female characters, like the fairy godmother, or. The female characters they show have very varied faces. This is idiotic and obviously written by someone who (A) can't draw and (B) has an axe to grind. Update: This piece has generated some interesting comments on Good, including this one from Dan Povenmire, co-creator of Phineas and Ferb. The only face that girls get to have is some round snub-nosed baby face. But Alex of every flavored bean noticed that, in contrast to the diversity of male faces, female characters in Disney/Pixar's recent movies all have the same face.īoys in animated movies have faces that are square, round, skinny, fat, alien-looking, handsome, and ugly. 2012's Brave and this summer's Inside Out have addressed this criticism to an extent 1. For years, one of the knocks on Pixar was the lack of main characters who are women in their movies. ![]()
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