@erohrsâ: No Iâm pretty sure one of the main complaints about the face *is* the fact that Disney has been doing it for such a long time. And I donât think you quite understand what an aesthetic is if you think making all of your main female characters look identical qualifies. Itâs just kinda boring and lazy for a studio with Disneyâs prowess to reuse the same basic character design, especially when we know they can do better.
It also doesnât particularly matter if you think complaining about it is useless or not, critique is critique regardless if the person itâs aimed at decides to act on it or not. Not to mention, between airing your grievances and remaining silent, only one actually has a chance of getting the issue solved.
1) And itâs getting extraordinarily tiring to deal with the same dumb complaints that are just people looking for issues. You may or may not subjectively like/dislike Sisuâs design. Thatâs fine, and thereâs plenty of valid criticism to be had on that front. But she doesnât look like Elsa just because sheâs got Big Disney Eyes. She just doesnât. Her human form doesnât look like Elsa and the only âresemblanceâ Dragon!Sisu shares with Elsa is that sheâs blue and has big eyes. Thatâs it.
2) The complaints are getting more and more ridiculous as time goes on. First it was the âeveryone looks like Rapunzel!â crowd. Now itâs âeveryone looks like Elsa.â Itâs the same dumb criticism repackaged because of this websiteâs weird and raging hatred for Frozen.
We have literally cycled through âAnna and Elsa look like Rapunzel!â, âVanellope looks like Baby!Elsa,â âJudy Hopps is just Furry!Elsa,â âMoana looks like Elsa but brown and with rounder cheeks,â and âRaya looks like Elsa but Asian.â Now itâs the damn dragon that looks like Elsa. Newsflash: none of them actually look that much like Elsa! They just have big eyes, which IS, in fact, a purposeful aesthetic animation choice Disney has made during the Revival Era, just like the rough, half-finished look was a purposeful choice they made during the Xerox Era and why all Disney animals are recognizably Disney products regardless of era.
And theyâre not going to change it because you âair your grievancesâ about it, lol; if that were the case, they would have changed styles after the âHoney Lemon looks like Rapunzelâ debacle seven years ago.Â
3) Even if they were blatantly same-facing, itâs not like this is a âDisney onlyâ problem. Don Bluth knew how to make exactly two men, for example:
And Studio Ghibli, critical and public darling that it is, is notorious for same-facing their mains. Donât hear anyone complaining about them.
These pictures are four different women, from four completely different movies (and thereâs plenty more examples; these were just the four most obvious ones). And yet these characters (who are carbon copies of each other) and their movies are judged not the appearance of the female characters, but by their personalities, their role in their movie, and the movie as a whole. No one cares that they look the same. Everyone (shocker) still loves SG movies. ForâŠyou knowâŠthe STORIES.
Meanwhile, Disney makes Honey Lemon look like Rapunzel and gives some big eyes to a dragon and Tumblr goes apeshit. Thereâs a huge double standard where Disney vs. other animation studios are concerned. Itâs exhausting, and boring, and utterly uninspired because âcanât yâall come up with literally ANY other criticism other than âthe dragon looks boring and has big eyesâ? Is that really the best you can do?â
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