Disney Exec Says Women Are Hard to Animate Because of Emotions

[MadrasT]

Disney Exec Says Women Are Hard to Animate Because of Emotions

This Thanksgiving, Disney's studios will release Frozen, an infinitely license-able animated family film with a cast of main characters consisting of a reindeer (prediction: bumbling but lovable!), a talking snowman (prediction: sassy in a dumb way!) and four animated humans — two boy cartoons, two girl cartoons. This is an accomplishment because, according to one Disney exec, female characters are harder to animate than male ones due to their having to show a "wide range of emotions" and having to "keep them pretty" in the midst of movement. Almost immediately, the internet called bullshit.

The exec, whose foot is probably by now firmly in his mouth, is one Lino Disalvo, Disney's head of animation for film. He lauded the achievements of the animation staff who worked on Frozen to a visiting animation blogger, saying making the film look good was a unique challenge. BECAUSE LADIES.

Historically speaking, animating female characters are really, really difficult, ’cause they have to go through these range of emotions, but they’re very, very — you have to keep them pretty and they’re very sensitive to — you can get them off a model very quickly. So, having a film with two hero female characters was really tough, and having them both in the scene and look very different if they’re echoing the same expression; that Elsa looking angry looks different from Anna being angry.

Hey, if Disalvo thinks animating women is hard, he doesn't even want to know how hard it is to be a woman. Boobs, vaginas, etc. Plus we've got all those emotions to express while still remaining pretty. It's exhausting. No wonder we're so moody.

More at link: http://jezebel.com/disney-exec-says-women-are-hard-to-animate-because-of-e-1442563003

Good Lord.

I don't know how much more I can take of teh stoopid.

We are not a different species, ferfucksake.

[seabeyond]

1. and the two boys got to look the same in their anger? hmmmm. ya, just a whole lot of stupid. my fav?

Hey, if Disalvo thinks animating women is hard, he doesn't even want to know how hard it is to be a woman. Boobs, vaginas, etc. Plus we've got all those emotions to express while still remaining pretty. It's exhausting. No wonder we're so moody.

[TlalocW]

2. Well, to be fair...

I bet a lot of people would be upset if he said, "Women? Naw, they're easy to animate."

TlalocW

[seabeyond]

3. right. that would happen. not throw in gotta have a GIRL pretty at all times, emotion

identifying her gender is so much better.

really? who would be bothered.

[redqueen]

4. I've been enjoying the response to this :)

So that’s their (blatantly misogynistic) excuse for scrapping all but twoof the female characters; that they’re too hard to animate? Those emotional female characters, they’re all the same, right? Here’s a hint: their “femaleness” isn’t what’s making them indistinguishable.




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http://aryashi.tumblr.com/post/63470455332/animating-female-characters-are-extremely

[seabeyond]

6. wait... even a sexy twinkle in eye and a smile when angry. wow. animated know how to do the feminism

"nicely" like none of us do. lol

so fuckin funny

[KitSileya]

5. grrr arrrgh!

The belief that women have a greater emotional range than men is just such a load of cr@p! The big difference is that men are trained from a very young age to hide and bottle up their emotions, to the detriment of the individual men and society. And then women get chided for being too emotional, because they're allowed to show the "softer" emotions like sadness and joy, while men are only allowed to show "harder" emotions, like anger, because being angry isn't emotional, natch!

[seabeyond]

7. all learned. my boys both can readily identify and express what they feel. they were allowed

nothing less.