#franchise: disney animated

[goldensunset]

when people refer to canon story-relevant kingdom hearts games as ‘spinoffs’ it makes me sad not only for the obvious reasons i always say but also bc like man i WISH this series had spinoffs. imagine what they could do if they had permission from nomura to truly go off the rails and ignore the greater canon for a second and just do some fun whimsical plotless thing in an alternate universe. imagine a fishing/boating game on destiny islands. kh fighting game. it is an injustice that we have been deprived of kingdom karts. can anyone hear me

[bixels]

I really like MLP stuff because I feel like a lot of artists choose to set their stories in the 20's(makes sense it's a cool time period). But when drawing their characters and settings they look mostly at the fashion and the architecture and not the drawings of the time. Which always made me sad because the commercial illustrations, comics and paintings look so good and still feel totally modern and fresh even though they are almost 100 years old.

Anyways I just want to say that your art really has that sleek modern feel and I was wondering if there were any specific illustrators that you keep in mind or if I'm just making stuff up in my head

This is a small thing I've also been struggling with art for the AU project. Deciding whether or not I want it to truly feel authentic to the 20s/30s or draw what feels natural to me. I ended up going with the latter because if I'm constantly forcing myself to draw in a style that doesn't feel right for me, it'll stop being fun really quickly and I'll burn out. That's why a lot of the illustrations feel more anime-ish.

That being said, I pull a lot of inspiration from 50s-60s pulp comics (especially in the CYMK color palettes) and 1920s graphic artists like Leyendecker and Hirschfeld. In terms of graphic design, I'll sometimes pull from art deco, art nouveau, or reference the visual flourishes of book covers from the time period.

[astridhoff03]

Animation is not only an entertainment for younger audiences, it’s a medium, a form of art and Storytelling that can appeal to every age group. Stories that are unique and wonderful in their own way and doesn’t need to have any sort of live action remake.

[easthigh]

KIM POSSIBLE | 04x13 "Cap'n Drakken"

[its-wabby-stuff]

How Human is your Animal?

Based on animalistic representation in Media. Ranging from anthropomorphic to everyday pet.

A tier list for your convenience

S Tier- Humans don’t exist here

Qualifications: the world has no humans, animals tend to walk on hind legs and participate in human like societies, most likely anthropomorphic but not required

Zootopia, Kung Fu Panda, Sing, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Chicken Little, My Little Pony, Goofy Movie, Ducktales, Robin Hood, Angry Birds, Samurai Rabbit, Paws of Fury, Spiderhams Universe

A Tier- I see, a little co-op happening

Qualifications: the world has humans, humans acknowledge animals in some way, they can be hired/considered for jobs and/or are active in society. Might be considered mutants

Paddigton, Muppets, Stuart Little, The Bad Guys, Pinnocio, Shrek universe, Care Bears, the Bee Movie, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3, and subsequently the entire MCU, Monsters Inc, Storks, Looney Tunes, TMNT, MHA, Yogi Bear, We Bare Bears, Chip N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Hop, Wonderland, James and the Giant Peach, Hoodwinked, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Ichabod and Toad, Sonic Movie

B Tier- Your getting suspiciously close

Qualifications: act more human like, perhaps develop a hidden society or walk on hind legs or plan elaborate heists, it’s just not quite right for an animal

Madagascar, Ice Age, Shark Tale, Surfs Up, Snoopy, Rescuers, SpongeBob, Ratatouille, Horton Hears a Who, Free Birds, Great Mouse Detective, Chicken Run, Flushed Away, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Tom and Jerry, Secret of Nym, Tale of Desperaeux, American Tail, Once Upon a Forest, Garfield, Over the Hedge, Rango

C Tier- Communication is key in fostering animal relationships

Qualifications: Perhaps by magical transformation or special gift or something that has always been kept a secret until now, these animals are able to talk to you

Cinderella, Tarzan, Jungle Book, Epic, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Charlottes Web, Scooby Doo, Happy Feet, Snow White, Pete’s Dragon, Princess and the Frog, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Spies In Disguise, Emperors New Groove, Enchanted, Sophia the First, Peter Rabbit, Meet the Robinsons, Anastasia, Swan Princess, Dr. Dolittle, Leo, Up

D Tier- Oh look, it’s gaining complexity

Qualifications: although animals have been known to convey emotions nothing is more complex than creating Shakespearean like storylines. Humans take to the sidelines

Lion King, Finding Nemo, 101 Dalmatians, Bambi, Land Before Time, The Secret Life of Pets, Bugs Life, Oliver and Company, All Dogs go to Heaven, Lady and the Tramp, Fox and the Hound, Aristocats, Migration, Bolt, Dinosaur, The Good Dinosaur, Super Pets, Dumbo, Home in the Range, G-force, The Wild, Spirit, Rio, Curious George

F Tier- It’s all okay, animals are just animals here

Qualifications: Imagine your pet in a movie, that’s prolly what fits here. The everyday dog, or cat, or shark. Likely plays a part in the plot progression of the movie

Babe, Jurassic Park, Milo and Otis, Old Yeller, Life of Pi, Sword in the Stone, Beethoven, A Dogs Purpose, We Bought a Zoo, Pokémon, Dolphins Tale, Homeward Bound, The Black Stallion, Marley and Me, Jaws, King Kong, How to Train Your Dragon

Z Tier- So it doesn’t work like other places, but it works for you

Qualifications: a Universe with its own set of rules, perhaps jumping into a place outside of their own where rules seem just a little different. Who can say if it was real, or a dream?

Mary Poppins, Spiderverse, Fantasia, Mario Bros, Song of the South, Alice in Wonderland (cartoon), Calvin and Hobbes

Each placing is based on the highest human to animal ratio in universe even if that is one exception. This is for fun, don’t take it too seriously. You’re welcome to fill in anything you think is missing. If I mentioned one of your favorite movies you have to reblog, I don’t make the rules.

😉

[trendfilmsetter]

The next AVATAR film will be titled AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH

Releasing in theaters December 19th, 2025

[vendriin]

Scared Shrekless (2010)

[sailorplanet1997]

is it just me thinking "Tinkerbell And The Great Fairy Rescue" should've take place in Fall instead of Summer?

i mean look at this? Summer? call it rather Fall with this weather, it literally rains most of the times, this match more with Fall to be honest but maybe it's just me i love how Tink's friends needs to make a plan in the middle of the bad weathers even if they can't fly to the house to rescue Tinkerbell, hell apparently even (especially) Vidia seems to think it's a waste of time to wait until it's dry to save Tinkerbell (she was very impatient when Clank and Bobble came with a plan to go on a mission outside fairy camp so they can go to the human house in the middle of the rain since she asked kind of in a irritating way to the 2 Tinker fairies what they were talking about) knowing how she is with her talent and stuff and for the way how she dealt with everything in the first movie, i'm surprised she wanted to get involved with everything, including rescuing Tinkerbell from the humans knowing she was gonna take the risk with the chances she gets captured in the process, she took the chance without even thinking about her own (Vidia clearly was putting everything including her pride, the hate on Tinkerbell and her talent aside during a mission to save Tinkerbell) the weather match with the mission from Tink's friends to rescue Tinkerbell while dealing with their struggles (from waterfalls up to the cat attack and from Vidia saving Tinkerbell up to Tinkerbell saving Vidia) Vidia deals with the struggles the most from everybody and i life for the struggles in the movies (poor Vidia she's innocent with all this and didn't asked for any of it...well except she wanted to rescue Tinkerbell) the weather is like nothing like Summer, like i said in my previous post, the movie should stay the same like it is now but the seasons should be switched with the second movie

[daystarvoyage]

Hey everyone its the daystar voyage Head LT Kyoko cane here to bring you another good post on my blog, one of my concerned posts on black poc representation in black media

Today in this two part special where gonna discuss about Good hair in animation & how it can define the character and fashion.

i wanted to talk about the topic of hair in animated shows, how it can define the details and proper cultural portrayal of how black people or POC have been represented as a whole (be it of mixed ecthnicity)

Lets get down to it, I feel we need to make a discussion on the Good & bad on proper cultural rep on shows especially when it relates & emotes to viewers & fans, we do have the discussions oof having nothing but our sexuality been made a character define characteer instead of good character, wriitng, physcial features and up holding a beauty standard.

The topic of HAIR Appreciation in animation, Questionable taste in how hair is not styled well for ethnicity.

Example

Luz's hair has so much symbolism of who she is, going to all works of animation, I do feel when she wasn't fully understood at home she acted out very ill-conditioned cause her father pass and moved into a new area, never relating to anyone, So it leads her to not changing her looks be it fashion, which i feel the shows writing shouldve explored more into why she keeps in short and theres a topic ill put in is masculization of black women think about it.

Dear I say it, after rewatching the show, IT feels like A LETDOWN & missed chances at times, with the staff & writers not know how to make great hairstyles to show proper culutral race. (and i have seen alot of fanart who did a great job on giving her better styles that enhnace her physcial features.

i feel this a recurring trope been used since the miles morales hair controversy cause black people or poc presented hair comes in many forms that can gives so much praise. Hers a article on the miles morales hair debut which is a logical standpoint on hair reprenentation, shows we need to have more diverse hairstyles in media or poc characters

NOW

I mean girl this HAIRMET (Fused words hairdo+helmet) and my goodness will never let them down for the outfit choices for luz comparing the femme presented amity and willow which is tasteless at best.

Look down down below on how her hair could’ve made her more feminine and beautiful I blame the masculinity of black women, a topic video you can find on my youtube that contribute to such aspects of how we see poc or black people.

so many missed oppurtunitys Remind yourselfs to draw long hair luz ill be a sucka to buy it which i discuss in my video.

My FAVORITE VIDEO AND PIC on how that did her justice

also another thing, nobody shouldnt have an excuse to brush away fem qualities over sexual orientation , let there design be versatile and not one track (along with the writing of the show.)

The greater aspects of how we should style characters.

Now unlike other media i talked about above whihc have been flawed in design and dont contribute to the chaaracters growth, two shows that did a absolutely great job of showing good ethnic & cultural representation in series such as amphibia & molly mcgee whihc made raw characters come out of theere own with greatness with prominent physical features

While anne boonchy & moon girl lunella had great writing, having there cultural cleebbrated in great execution of proper black hair great with good results, In moon girl we also get in episode where we discuss why we see black people be in love with there selves for there beautiful features including hair along anne boochuy diaspora making a impact.

moon girl video below

Great hair episode that impacts Cultural and ecthinic representation above.

i feel we have a long way to go when it comes for the new gen to desgin well executed characters, instead not having there postive trait of whos orenitation being there great feature.

but i disgress

look at the hairstlyes from the winx club, the long hair on characters as layla (aisha) & flora is PHENOMENAL AND COULD’VE PLAYED A ROLE IN BLACK PEOPLES HAIR BEING BEAUTIFUL FOR VIEWERS

One Great example for hair representation, and also cultural goodness put into it was the Winx club (which had actual fashion designers work on the character concepts and outfits)

Thank you for reading this post hope we can discuss the topic on the comments (that means civilized and dont hate appreciate others critiques and statements)

Thank you for being on the daystar voyage.

[halohalona]

was scrolling through tiktok (i know), and a "Be an Alpha" video came up. Let's just say 1. i could not enjoy the deadpool content that came after that, and 2. I should really stop looking at the comments of every video i see.

[swan2swan]

Watching Mulan (after meeting Ming-Na Wen and watching Wish I want to note, but this is more about the latter) is very much an experience of "YOU SEE, DISNEY??? THIS IS WHAT WE WANT IN OUR MOVIES! IT'S DIVERSE! IT'S EMPOWERING! IT'S BEAUTIFUL! IT'S...*shoos Eddie Murphy dragon away*...DEEP! IT'S GOT WONDERFUL MUSIC! IT'S SHOT LIKE AN...*pushes Eddie Murphy dragon away*...ACTION MOVIE!"

The difference in quality is vast, and why is that?

Because the scene before this war meeting where they discuss actual strategy like warriors (*pushes aside other franchise*) is a comedic thirty seconds WITHOUT DIALOGUE where the visuals take over. Silly? Yes. But not obnoxious.

It's a cartoon!

You don't need to be reading jokes all the time!

[i-am-trans-gwender]

This Fantasia concept art is funny to me because Mickey has Sonic eyes

[princess-ibri]

So…they’re making another Swan Lake movie…sigh

And in this, the twelfth one, they finally show Odette’s mother. And gonna be honest I don’t hate her design? It’s nice, so I thought I’d take a shot of drawing what it might look like in traditional 2D, with a few little tweaks (mostly hair volume)

Anyway go watch the trailer if you want, it’s a scream

And thanks @gayfergus for letting me know about it xD

[easthigh]

KIM POSSIBLE | 02x15 “A Very Possible Christmas”

[rainbowdelicsunshine]

Least favorite character from media you love?

Im thinking of just giving a quick Top Five list for you since there are WAY too many characters from WAY too much media that I like to keep it down to just one

So here we go!

Nagito Komaeda (SDR2) (his backstory and how fucked up he is is very interesting character wise and I like his dynamic with Hajime, but as a person/personality wise I fucking hate this lil prick and the fact he GETS AWAY WITH MOST OF IT)

Rabbit (Winnie the Pooh) (The way he acted and all the events in Springtime with Roo really have soured my view of him with how selfish and rude he was. And he has a Karen Habit he needs to kick)

Toshio Otomo (Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel) (he's just a prick who likes to tease and make fun of a literal ten year old when he's fucking around 15 years old, and the character regression Toshio went through halfway in the series does not help)

Dr. Amanda Mixter (Chucky TV Series; Season 2) (if you've seen me talk about Dr. Mixter on here before, you'll know that this lady is a literal fucking She Devil)

Dante Hicks (Clerks) (I deal with people who are like him and have the exact same attitude as him, including my own Mom, so I just fucking hate the way he acts throughout the whole first movie) (I love Clerks tho)

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[slaket-and-sprash]

Actually Shrek forever after is on par with Shrek 2 and Puss In Boots the last wish as the best film in the Shrek franchise and one of the best DreamWorks films period.

I will say that it is the least funniest Shrek movie. Not because of the fact that jokes don't land just that it has so few jokes throughout, the jokes they do tell do in fact land. Shrek the third, on the other hand tries to be funny but none of the jokes really land, the story sucks and it dosent do Shrek's charecter arc justice. Shrek the third is easily the weakest Shrek movie and whenever I rewatch the films I skip Shrek the third to Shrek forever after.

And I feel the reason why people dislike Shrek forever after is because people view the Shrek series as straight up comedies that are meant to take the piss out of Disney. Instead of movies that take typical Disney/fairytale tropes and makes something new with them. The Shrek series has always had a hefty focus on drama and with Shrek's charecter arc, with him feeling as though he does not deserve love or happiness bc he is an ogre. The Shrek series has always been an animated fantasy/drama like Kung Fu Panda and How to train your Dragon, as opposed to a straight up comedy like Madagascar.

Alot of people claim that Shrek forever after became the very thing it was making fun of, an animated serious fantasy drama but Shrek was always that, just that it subverted average fairytale and animated tropes of the time. It came out after the 90s, the era of the Disney renaissance. Where every animated movie needed to have the same exact tropes and Shrek subverted every single one of those to make a new golden standard for animated films.

Shrek forever after still subverts typical fairytale tropes, it continues Shrek's charecter arc with him finally realizing that yes he does deserve happiness no matter what. Also the animation still looks stunning and I love how Fiona gets to be a badass. Shrek forever after isn't a funny movie, but that's not what it's supposed to be. It's supposed to cap off Shrek's story in a satisfying way.