I do watch a silly amount of childish films and I remember watching Snow White when it was re realsed (and I was probably 10 or younger) and being confused as to how it could be on video (VHS) when the origional footage was all black and white of Walt Disney recieving his Oscars which was shown at the end of the video as some sort of early day hidden bonus feature... But as Ive grown up I discovered the origional versions of the little mermaid, peter pan, and all the other films the company changed to make a happy ever after ending. Realising how they changed the origional stories so much has annoyed me to the point of my continual studies into finding out what else Disney ruined. From basically stealing The Lion King from "Kimba the White Lion" and kicking any other copyright claim with their massive legal team, To owning other companies like DC and spreading their money and white castle logo throughout popular tv shows such as Desperate Housewives to even tormenting the globe with Jonas brothers and Hanna Montana. Just how much of the entertainment world does Disney own???
But one thing that annoys me more is how the quality of their "drawn" cartoons has dropped.
We went from this
High detailed and quality cartoons
To this
Low detailed, stark, boring and pointless. This makes no sense to me but when I was younger watching Pooh Corner I could imagine being there with the characters... the more modern cartoons like above. Deserve to be burnt.
Irrigardless... One of the things when Disney made their detailed cartoons was their detailed hand drawn movies. Hours upon hours of practice, research, study, scripting went into making movies. Now the company has teams of people working hours upon hours infront of computers where their art departmet makes clay models of the characters and passes them over to be made digital. But thats the advances in technology for you I guess.
One thing I shall forever smile about, despite Disneys actions and world domination is the way they did things origionally.
Above is the test footage of Alice and Wonderland in sync with the cartoon footage. Where actors who would do the voices acted out the lines and potentially the cartoon performance. They would dress up, wave their hands about play with props all relative to the story. And in this instance above the audio from the test footage was used exactly for the film of Alice in Wonderland. As a form of research, although in some reports extreamly outdated I think its fantastic to continue this idea. Although I'd never at current consider making an animation or video, despite it being an ambition one day to do so. I can see me taking photographs of people in postions to draw from, I can see me pulling silly positions to understand how a drawing I may be working on may form.
Its something that maybe the artist who created this image should have tried out...
Sometimes I wonder if technology is killing the practice of drawing and should old methods still be in our basic practice before we move onto the macs and pc's software to draw. Should we stick to pencil and paper before jumping on the computer 100% of the time and should we be pulling silly poses ourselves to figure out how the human form works?
These are just some of the random questions that buzz about my brain on thursday nights resulting in me doing a mad spree of research and understanding. I should really be putting this all towards my Contextual Studies. Till then it can rest safe and sound on this blogger update
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