#renaissance age of animation

[tootern2345]

A common occurrence for Sydney, Australia based animation studio. Mr. Big Cartoons. Was that sometimes, their animation can be fully inbetweened. And in other moments, like this one here. It’s janky pose to pose animation reminiscent of Lacewood Productions’ work on Season 1 of Ren & Stimpy. This is from the rather bleh season 5 episode, Travelouge.

[synergysilhouette]

The 90s/early 2000s was the best Disney era for male protagonists

This isn't all of them, but these were the best of them, imo. And this is just the characters; how I felt about their movies varies. I hope more Disney films in the future feature male leads--especially musicals!

[elephantlovemedleys]

disney meme (favourite couple 1/2):

pocahontas & john smith

[fictionadventurer]

Imagining fairy tales as Disney Golden Age animated films:

Thumbelina

The opening storybook is about her mother wanting a child and planting the flower seed to get one.

The story then starts with Thumbelina's "birth" from the flower. She's presented as not quite an infant, but as a very young child. Long sequences of her exploring the cottage and garden of her home.

A lot of work put into perspective--keeping this at Thumbelina's level, showing the world as a huge place. Extreme work put into details because everything is oversized. It's beautiful, very realistic, almost bankrupts them, and no one appreciates it.

The mother is rotoscoped, while Thumbelina herself is a bit more cartoony.

All the animal friends in this story are extremely cute. The toads sit in this uncanny valley between cartoonish and realistic that makes them scary in a different way than was intended. A particularly silly-looking screenshot of one of them becomes a meme.

Thumbelina's main struggle is staying cheerful through all her dangerous misadventures. She succeeds, with song.

The mouse is a somewhat comic, somewhat anthropomorphized mouse. She's a mother figure who's more demanding than the idealized human mother of Thumbelina's carefree childhood.

Thumbelina is an excellent housekeeper for the mouse and nurse to the injured swallow.

The mole is presented as a comic character who turns unexpectedly sinister when Thumbelina resists his marriage proposal. There's a nightmare sequence of Thumbelina going into his tunnels and feeling trapped and fleeing with terror into the sunlight.

It ends with a very Fantasia-esque ballet-inspired sequence as Thumbelina finds a home among the flower fairies.

The Goose Girl

Opening storybook explains how the princess is sent off to marry a prince, the handmaid is jealous, and steals the princess' identity, forcing her to work as a goose girl.

The goose girl is very kind to her geese. The geese are cute and provide lots of silly little slapstick interludes set to music.

Falada is pastured with other horses nearby, and the goose girl talks to him. He's a very expressive animal companion, but still silent.

The prince meets the goose girl unexpectedly in the pasture. They get a cute little love duet.

The handmaid gets threatened by this and recruits Conrad the goose boy to kill the goose girl.

The wind is presented early on as another living thing that the goose girl is kind to. Perhaps a windy day is causing her trouble, and she unthinkingly is like "Stop it!" as it sends some adorable little goslings tumbling over each other. And then it turns out the wind is a living creature, and takes various shapes with leaves and things, and proves to be a bit bashful at being scolded, and has a long sequence of helping to tidy up and generally being playful.

When Conrad tries to kill the goose girl, she calls on the wind for help, and it becomes this terrifying elemental force that leaves her and us shocked at what she's just unleashed.

The princess flees and runs into the prince, who is unable to get the full story out of her (either because she's too terrified to think straight, can't speak because of some vow, or has some reason to think she can't trust him).

Conrad runs back to the handmaid, who decides to kill the princess herself.

The princess tries to escape on Falada during a thunderstorm. The handmaid tries to chase her down and in the process Falada winds up getting killed or injured so the goose girl either has to flee on foot or just plain stop to help him, thus allowing the handmaid to catch up.

The geese and the wind work to get the prince there in time to hear the handmaid reveal that she's not the true princess and to save the true princess just as the handmaid winds up getting trampled/pushed over a cliff by her own horse.

Very brief happy ending--all sunshine and flowers and happy choir singing--as the goose girl goes back to the palace in the arms of her beloved and takes her place as the true princess.

[blanket-art]

IM FINALLY FREE

this took 10 hours

Plain gif under cut

[sleepy-stories]

[arkivalier]

Mysio (cat) - KB, National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands - Public Domain.

Migale - KB, National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands - Public Domain.

Mustela (weasel) - KB, National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands - Public Domain.

Canis (dog) - KB, National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands - Public Domain.

[yen-sids-tournament]

Disney Animated Movie Music

Our first tournament (the reason we even created this blog) is about which animated Disney movie has the best music.

Nominate your favorite Disney animated movies based on their music. Whether it be your absolute favorite song, the genius of the composer, the contribution to music, which soundtrack is full of the most bangers, or really anything you want, as long as you include the name, it will be considered.

There is space for you to nominate up to five films if you are super committed to one movie you can always put it multiple times. there is no requirement for you to chose five movies as well. And for clarification; this is for purely animated movies. We will accept Pixar as well as Disney Animated Studios, but not something acquired by Disney (like Anastasia 1997). We also will not accept Mary Poppins, High School Musical, or (while we do call it an animated movie) the 2019 Lion King and the like here.

The votes will be tallied to create the bracket inclusions and placements. Any movie that has won or been nominated for a notable award (like Oscars) will start with one point for each nomination and two points for each win.

The size of the bracket will depend on how many submissions are received. Nominations will remain open until May 20th, unless we are overwhelmed. (in that case we will close it early after announcing the change).

inspired by: @maskedmaniatournament @found-family-tournament @mermaidbracket @princesspoll @latine-showdown @disabled-character-showdown @gentle-giant-swag @the-worst-bracket @eldest-sibling-tournament @disneychanneltournament

[marciabrady]

😬😬😬

[vermilion-sky]

The Red Queen Pt.2

“Is she going to be okay?”

“Are any of us really ever okay here? Maybe she can save herself by never waking up Stay trapped in whatever dream you are in, you are better off than waking up to this ugly reality you hear?”

I can hear distant voices slowly growing louder, My vision faded in and out trying to make sense of the figures looming over me. I slowly make out two pairs of eyes when I shoot straight up from my resting spot.

“Well shit, you have been warned”, muttered the same voice that snapped me into this reality.

The two maids sat on both ends of the bed I had been laid to rest in, they slowly got up and brought golden trays of food fit for a king.

“Eat up, You fainted due to the amount of blood loss from yesterday’s battle”, said the same maid in a tired and monotone voice accompanied by the colorless expression on her face. 

Without a word the smell of food hit my nose as my survival instinct kicked in, next thing I knew I was stuffing my face not even realizing that the two women still hadn't left the room and stood there watching in almost disgust.

“Here you have to try this!” I shouted shamelessly in excitement as I held out a grilled limb of poultry in their direction.

One of the girls drooled being very tempted by my offer.

“Don’t you even dare, do you realize how much trouble you can get into if the higher ranks see you eating food that wasn’t assigned to you?” Said the other stern maid.

“Well it’s your loss, with all the shit they put us through I am taking my chances in whatever little pleasures I can get. Better than being obedient and miserable, besides, what else could they possibly do to me? At this point death is more favorable,” I proceeded to chow down my meal purposefully, leaving some aside for the maids to join me. 

The more shy maid stood there silently watching for a moment when she unexpectedly joined me on my bed taking a handful of food and scarfing it down without another word.

“And I lost her,” scoffed the other.

“She has a point, I'd rather die of a worthy cause such as food than to live my life obediently dull and flavorless. Hmmm you should try this! It’s delicious!” I successfully won one of them over.

The other slowly climbed on the bed with us grabbing a piece of buttered bread, as if to believe that the least fulfilling piece of food would grant her a lesser punishment. She slowly brought it to her lips as the other maid and I eagerly waited for her reaction, and with one bite she too desperately began to devour her food joining us in this frenzy.

The maids began to slowly open up to me revealing their names and quirks and how they ended up here. One of them was named Pricilla and the other Prachi, Pricilla was the shy one of the two and her quirk garnered her, her ranking due to the fact that she's able to manipulate peoples emotions by making eye contact with them, she was deemed highly useful to the hounds, I wondered why they assigned her to me for the matter. Prachi on the other hand is the more stern one that hardly shows any emotion, despite her cold attitude she can use the sun to charge her energy like a plant during photosynthesis, but also transfers that energy onto another person to speed the process of healing within the body, like a reiki master. I can also see why she is also highly favored by the counsel. I was a little skeptical, after all these two were assigned to me for a reason, but regardless after the loss of my best friend I would take any company. 

“I don’t understand how you could possibly act so unbothered despite the counsel discussing breeding you like one of their brood dams”, asked Prachi.

“At least now you won't have to fight anymore, the dam’s are treated like royalty here in order to keep them in perfect shape for reproduction, you’ll have plenty of meals like these, it doesn't seem like such a bad deal”, argued Pricilla. 

The term “dam” is referred to a female dog that is used for breeding purposes, opposed to the men who are referred to as “sire”, if you were to be considered “breed-able” by the counsel, that made you an automatic rank eight and just like how Pricilla mentioned before you were pretty much considered a prize possession by the counsel. Soon enough they will be assigning me to a male abettor they see fit based on the compatibility of our quirks. ‘Lovely isn’t it’.

Before I could process a response there was a sudden knock at the door. Both maids jumped up at the sudden noise, it never being a good sign, as they quickly wiped their fingers leaving no trace of their prey. They stood quietly beside the bed with their hands folded behind them and their heads hanging low in shame, this was definitely a different mannerism from before. The two same men entered the room in their usual formation. 

“Good to see you are feeling better, the counsel has unfinished business with you, you will be joining us in the labs to run further tests. You two, quickly get her dressed”, Barked one of the guards as they exited the room and waited outside on stand by.

‘What test could they possibly want to run on me?’, with that thought I had barely realized the cluster gem that was left of Kikio was no longer fused to my hand. “Where is she!?”I quickly jumped looking all over the bedroom.

“Uhm, who?”, the two maids looked over at each other in confusion.

“Kikio, she was here with me yesterday and now she's gone!” I was on the verge of tears since it was all I had of her.

“You mean that crystal? It was removed from your hand last night after you fainted, they needed it for examination of the properties of your quirk, that's probably why they need to run more tests on you to get a better idea of how your blood will react when breeding”, explained Pricilla. 

I began to hyperventilate feeling as though I betrayed Kikio once more having lost the remnants of her. 

“Hey, hey. It’s okay, calm down, I was able to save a piece,” whispered Prachi as she handed me a folded handkerchief to reveal a small piece of a red shard beneath the folds. 

“How did you get that?” questioned Pricilla.

“I heard one of the guards talking about how her blood crystals might actually hold some value, so I chipped a piece away when she was asleep, I was originally going to save it for myself… you know, for when I get out I had something to use as payment, but seeing how much it means to you I guess you can have it, I mean you can always make more right?” Prachi further explained.

“Thank you!” I threw my hands around Prachi engulfing her in a tight embrace. 

Prachi, shocked at my response, lightly patted my back, not being used to such affection. 

“Here I’ll keep it somewhere safe in the meantime, you can’t be seen with it otherwise it will be confiscated”, Prachi quickly folded the jewel back into the handkerchief out of sight and rushed me over to the dressing room before the two guards came wondering in as to why it’s taking us so long.

They swiftly changed me to my usual white robe with a matching white hood to obscure my face as I was escorted down the hall by the two guards. I was brought into a white laboratory room with a white chair in the center where I was placed, they strapped me as more white hooded figures flooded the room surrounding me, poking me with needles. 

“Leave no drop wasted, you will all be examined before leaving the lab so don’t get any ideas”, announced one of the guards as they stood back and watched the hooded figures do their work.

Slowly I began to dose off as they injected me with some clear liquid, I was out in minutes not being able to recall any of this encounter which was preferred at this rate if I had no say in the matter. I woke up as quickly as I passed out, I could see figures alongside the guards with their backs turned against me reading out loud the analysis. They didn’t realize I had been awake. 

“Seems as though whenever her blood comes into contact with foreign blood it has some sort of reaction where it begins to crystalize taking over the others, with that said do to the fact that it is contaminated by the other hosts blood the value of the crystals themselves are not as high from getting it directly from her blood stream”.

“So the idea of using her blood to inject it into others in order to create more crystals would be a no go”.

“Not exactly, we can still use her blood to create human crystals for currency; it just wouldn't be as valuable compared to the source itself”.

“Which is good because the more crystals we produce regardless the less value they will have, mind you the gem Argyle Everglow gets its value due to how rare the gem itself is, as long as the hounds possess the girl we will be sitting filthy rich!”

‘Were my ears deceiving me? Are the hounds really plotting to start a human farm to create more crystals like what happened to Kikio?!’, suddenly my thoughts were interrupted by a loud beeping coming from the machine next to me I had been attached to with wires. 

Several of the figures rushed over to me to inject me with more of that same liquid as I tried to fight back on the strapped chair, I met my defeat once more.

To be Continued…

edited by: @saiyanstars​

written by: ♠️

[tootern2345]

Double Header is filled with a lot of amazing moments lmao! Still a top tier episode directed by one of the more stellar directors during the Games Animation era, Mike Kim!

[synergysilhouette]

If Disney was just starting to do remakes, this is how I'd feel about it. You may be surprised

Note: this is concerning REMAKES, not reimagining (ie Maleficent) or sequels (Alice in Wonderland). Lemme know if you have any questions/concerns!

[a-queer-little-wombat]

Hope y'all are interested in medieval English systems of cadency and how they changed over the centuries between their invention and, say, the death of Elizabeth. With side rants about heraldry as a game of telephone as it was played across Europe.

No?

How about the importance of native plants and animals? Side rants include permaculture, why grass lawns are terrible, why hottuniya cordata should be banned from sale in the US, fucking colonization, foraging, why petty town ordinances that force grass lawns are bullshit, and more.

No?

How about I keep talking for half an hour listing things I could easily talk for half an hour about?

the spn drama could take a whole year to explain in the least so i’m good

[hellbornsworld]

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[tanadrin]

I mean, renaissance does extend to the modern era but started during the middle ages. Discovery of the Americas / reformation are what are usually used as the symbolic cut-off points

no, this is actually completely wrong. modernity is a sticky but diaphanous fluid which began to seep up through a crack in the earth's crust below florence, italy, after the earthquake of september 28, 1453. it adheres vigorously to animal flesh, and minute traces are spread by person to person contact. even in trace amounts, its presence inhibits miracles, spiritual apparitions, and feudalism, and encourages the mercantile spirit, which is why its spread ended the middle ages. it also enables the visual cortex to comprehend perspective, which is why paintings looked so funny before. unfortunately it also tends to accumulate in the inner ear, dampening transcendent vibrations that otherwise are naturally picked up by the auditory nerve, making it impossible for humans to hear the voice of the divine.

that sounds bad, but most of what untainted humans in europe were perceiving as the voice of the divine was actually just the voice of a lesser divinity that pope adrian iv trapped in the roman catacombs, harvesting its body for communion. while non-sentient, the psychic defense mechanism of this creature produced aggression, zealotry, and visions of fire. since modernity is toxic to divine beings, despite the church's best efforts it began to sicken in the 17th century and by the 18th was in dire condition. its death finally enabled the first vatican council to occur.

of course if you ask about this at the vatican they won't tell you the truth. it's not on purpose: when divine beings die all memory of them vanishes from this plane of existence as well, including written records. but traces remain if you know where to look. you didn't think the eucharist was always just a little cracker and a sip of wine, did you? that wouldn't make sense. it doesn't even look like flesh.