My favorite part is when the kitty runs to the window and looks out like āthe outside stuff????? It is inside?????ā
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Yāall this is a great video to study to observe the body language of a very happy but also very excited cat.Ā Lots of people see videos of excited cats doing things like climb rock climbing walls or get on small boats and think they are angry or scared, when they arenāt.Ā Hereās a good example of happy excitement and tension in a cat where the catās pleasure is easy to see.Ā The catās tail is lashing and its ears are going backward and forward like crazy, but the cat is not angry, it is merely off its shits because snow is just incredible.Ā This is a wildly playful cat which mightĀ play-attack a hand or other animal because it is so excited, but not out of anger.Ā Note the zoomies at the end to burn off some of that energy!
Think about it. When we humans do something fun and very physical, our bodies are often tense, at the ready, and a lot of our body language does look kind of aggressive or even scared. Cats are the same!Ā Animals at play or investigating new things often show some tension, but tension is not the same as anger or fear!
And talking about how the new frizz her is her niece, allow me to do a direct side by side instead
These are STILL not the same woman. Where is the icon fashion, the earrings (the chameleon, which might be in the new show idk I havenāt watched it), the prominent hooked nose, the broader shoulders, the volume to her hair, the LIFE IN HER EYES
This frizzle looks like sheās been called into the school board for inappropriate behavior and dress one too many times and has been broken.
Also others have said it before me but I couldnāt find it in the scroll backs but they whitewashed all the kids too. They same face syndromed everyone to either be easier to draw or be more ambiguous so as not to offend or both or something, and it just makes me sad
Fuck it I did the digging cause Iām still mad
And thatās not even to mention what they did to the bus itself.
The old bus had a personality and life and fun and now itās justā¦ a bus.
HOW DO YāALL WHITEWASH A BUS?!
Itās gives āanti abortion Jehovaās Witness cartoonā now
Vector puppet animation and a shocking drop off in investment in kidvid is largely at fault, but international marketing is also to blame.
Whatās important to remember is that the whitewashy approach to character design in kidvid is a backslide.
Representation in cartoons had generally been on an upswing since the 1980s, even though efforts were often minimal, clumsy, or badly executed. Diversity helped sell action figures in the lucrative US/Canadian market and it was recognized as a prosocial value on the production side.
āProsocial messagesā are a major part of kidvid TV pitches and development, nearly every show has specific prosocial lessons the narrative themes are intended to work around, even if its an action-figure ad. These range from sincere expressions of the creatorās intent (Gargoyles, OG Magic Schoolbus, OG He-Man (no, for real)) to the entertainment equivalent of carbon credits.
Slight aside. Actual ink-and-paint animation tended to lock characters down into more distinct tones because there were only so many standard paint colors. Which is why Kwame from Captain Planet, Roadblock from GI-Joe, and Tim from OG magic schoolbus all use essentially the same pantone.
Ralphie gets skinny because not only fatphobia, but I suspect because he would need slightly different rigging and would add just a teensy bit to the budget adjusting his animations when they could just copy-paste from one of the other identically built kids. If they need to put them all in spacesuits or diving suits or whatever, they just make the one body and slap the heads on, eazy-pezy.
Decals on the schoolbus mean they have to be tracked, they have to use different versions of the bus in flipped shots, same with Mrs. Frizzleās clothing patterns. Wouldnāt want to spend time flipping Ralphieās āRā around.
And with the marketing for everything now being global, thereās an impulse to average everything down to appeal to all markets to a general degree. Making stories oversimple makes them easy to translate. Humor varies culture to culture, keep it slapstick or quick quips that can be localized easily. Everything that makes the Chinese censor boards happy also makes US reactionaries less likely to kick up a protest, the incentive is to keep everything:
ALSO:These characters have the same face. They probably use the same eye and mouth parts for character animations.
Itās all to do it as cheap and broadly appealing as possible, as determined by business weirdos who know nothing about art and care nothing about kids, and theyāre more than willing to leverage racism (or just ignore that its happening) for the promise of a tenth of a percent more profit.
And whatās galling is that this kind of animation software doesnāt have to make crap. It can be used to make amazing stuff and still be vastly cheaper than traditional hand-drawn, but the same quality at 60% of the cost is never going to beat Ā½ the quality at 5% of the cost for the money-men.
The path of least resistance rolls over a lot of people.
you know those tropes where you come across them and are like Hard No Thank You but then you see the authorās name and are likeā¦ š i will read this FOR YOU šā¦
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