#the emperor's new groove style

[mast3r-rainb0w]

[C] 'SWAPPED' Styles: Joe Swanson + Kronk by Mast3r-Rainb0w

Joe Swanson is made in the “The Emperor's New Groove” artstyle, while Kronk is made in the “Family Guy” artstyle. As you can tell, their native artstyles are SWAPPED with each other, making this interesting combination you see here. This was a commission I made via Deviantart. Enjoy the fanart!

[tmmyhug]

the loyal attack dog has been done. the stupid goons have been (over)done. give me the villain’s henchman who’s arguably more evil than the actual villain and so has to be kept on a leash like an overeager puppy lest they kill their 17th random civilian

[selenadrawsstuff]

Yzma is all finished! Yayy!! Can’t wait to draw the other villains in my style!

[ravaging-angel]

ur angle and ur davil

[chocochococoffee]

watched nimona

i thought it was going to be a series, yet it was a movie. tough luck, its too fast paced. not thats not likeable, but it feels like when you watch an anime movie, and you know its a recap of a whole series that was shortened too much to fit a certain amount oh hours replacing it with good effects. which aint bad but sure you feel that lacks a certain spark. what i know is that certainly i will search for the original source.

characters were great. nimona herself is great, loved the dynamics with barrister, and barrister with mr i dont remember his name. its a bit too on the nose, the way the movie leads you to the end. forgot whats the word? well it feels like a well done of a trope i gues. villians felt like jokes tho. one ridiculous jock, the other a racist, classist, phobic caricature. idk there was more to be done eith them i believe, and there were little that wanted to be shown of mr trainer but in the end it wasnt enough. much less of todd, the joke.

anyways it was ok, very much tumblr also. 7/10. im interested on the sources more tho.

[hazbinbabbling4ever]

Tumblr. The only place on the internet where a fanfiction site is wished happy birthday. And it answers back.

Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

[rumbuckle]

I need a novel from the point of view of the Raven Queen… I want to know what she was thinking during her og human backstory, her ascension, the calamity, getting Vax as a champion, and everything that’s about to happen.… truly that internal monologue must be insane

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Veronica Lake (I Married a Witch, Sullivan's Travels)—her look is so iconic they used her as a visual model for jessica rabbit in who framed roger rabbit and a bunch of other femme fatale types in cartoons and live action alike. i didnt think i liked women and then i saw her in sullivans travels and said gee i hope this doesnt awaken anything in me! every role ive seen her in she absolutely oozes an aura of "i know people would ask me to step on them" and her EYES bro every photo ive looked at for this submission its like shes piercing thru time and space to judge me <3

Eartha Kitt (Anna Lucasta, St. Louis Blues)—My friend and I have a saying: NOBODY is Eartha Kitt. A thousand have tried, and they've all come up empty and will continue to do so. Everyone knows her for something: from "Santa Baby" to Yzma in Emperor's New Groove to Catwoman to making Lady Bird Johnson cry for the Vietnam War. She was a master of comedy and sex, an extremely vocal activist, and she aged like fine wine... I honestly don't know what I can say about her that hasn't already been said, so I'll stick to linking all my propaganda. Like what else do you want from me. She was iconic at everything she ever did. Literally name another. How can anyone even think of her and not want to absolutely drown?

This is round 5 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Veronica Lake:

Her HAIR, her FIGURE, her VOICE, the way she wore LEATHER AND SANG SONGS FOR NO REASON.

I don't believe there's a person on earth who can watch Veronica Lake in I Married A Witch and not be struck by how gorgeous she is. She had that youthful wonder about her that almost every Hollywood starlet was trying to achieve. Her hairstyle (peekaboo bangs) became an iconic Hollywood style after she popularized it, and made her signature look all the more suggestive. Also, witches are tumblrs favorite!

ICONIC hair sweep

The US government literally begged her to change her hairstyle because it was TOO HOT to handle and women who copied it were getting their hair caught in machinery

Her hairstyle was so iconic and popular that the war department had to come out with a PSA instructing lady ironworkers with ways they could pin their hair up to avoid it getting bound in machinery. [https://veteranlife.com/military-history/veronica-lake/]

She played a lot of femme fatale roles but my favorite is Sullivan’s Travels opposite Joel McRea, which is a comedy. She became famous for her hair style at the time—she wore it long and parted on one side so it would fall over half her face in a very sexy way. They called it a peek-a-boo I think. You’ve definitely seen Bugs Bunny dressed up like her, so I think if she’s being honored in such a way she’s very cool.

look at her

she's GORGEOUS in her little witch outfits that she wore for promos and also in the oversized coats and pajamas she wore throughout the movie...she's got RANGE

My Grandpa supposedly dated her in high school, he drove her to school in his car every day. This is legend in the family.

She has gorgeous hair, has got the smouldering look over the shoulder down PAT, and is just drop-dead gorgeous too!

Schizophrenic icon, popularized the peekaboo hairdo long before Jessica Rabbit

She’s just so prettyyyyy

So much hot in such a tiny package. She was no more than 5 feet tall, and some reports claim as small as 4'9"

If you picture a femme fatale in your head, almost certainly Veronica Lake had a hand in shaping the image you think of. She came to embody the look of the noir leading lady as well as the sound and the performance. Certified Noir Baddie.

Eartha Kitt:

"A hot vintage woman who was not just known for her voice, beauty, poise, and presence, but also her unapologetic ways of speaking about how she was mistreated in the show business as a girl who grew up on cotton fields in South Carolina in the 1930s through the 1940s coming to Broadway first and then Hollywood."

"Have you watched her sing?? Have you seen her face?? Have you heard her talk?? How could you not fall instantly in love. She makes me incoherent with how hot she is."

"She can ACT she can SING she can speak FOUR LANGUAGES she is a GODDESS!!! Although she is (rightfully) remembered for her singing, TV appearances (Catwoman my beloved), and later film roles, her early appearances in film are no less impressive or noteworthy!! She’s an amazing actress with so much charisma in every role. She was also blacklisted from Hollywood for 10 years for criticizing the Johnson administration/Vietnam War, so. Iconic. Also Orson Welles apparently called her “the most exciting woman in the world.”

"She had such a stunning, remarkable appearance, like she could tear you to shreds with just a glance- but the most undeniable part of her hotness was her voice, and it makes sense that it's what most people nowadays know her for. Nothing encapsulates the sheer magnetism of her singing better than this clip of her and Nat King Cole in St. Louis Blues, she pops in at 2:49. Also I know it's post-1970 but her song that was cut from Emperor's New Groove is likely to make you feel Feelings."

Even with as racist as Hollywood was in the 1950s and 60s, Eartha Kitt STILL managed to have a thriving career. She also once had a threesome with Paul Newman and James Dean, and called out LBJ over the Vietnam War so hard that it made First Lady Johnson cry. Eartha Kitt was talented, sexy, and a total badass activist.

[dreamclod]

To everyone wondering what's happening on Twitter

A lot of stuff was "leaked" online, all of them being Disney pilots/pitch bibles (ex. Gravity falls pilot, Emperor's new groove new skool show pitch bible, Sofia the first pitch bible ECT.).

One of the leaked pilots was for a pilot episode of a cartoon called "Shed force" by Matt Danner from 2012. It has an amazing art style and death metal. Back to the main topic-

Basically everyone is thirsting over the villain, his name is Nordic Bunny and he looks like this:

Like I get it.

If he wasn't canned he'd be a Tumblr sexyman.

[ja-khajay]

hiii! In regards to the "Guillermo del Toro Says “We Have to Rescue” Studio Animation From “Emoji-Style Behavior”" article/statement, do u have examples of animation that specifically is & is not this type of expression/animation? Bc it's rly hard for me to actually picture this and like I need examples ahaha

Disclaimer - I was not at this specific talk, so I don't have the full context and I know from reliable sources - friends of mine that DID attend it - that it's not all he said there, so that article is pretty much only relying spicy chosen bits. That being said, I will focus on this paragraph.

Getting more specific, he went on to detail what he despises about certain lazy proclivities in commercial animation, notably how characters and emotions are “codified into a sort of teenage rom-com, almost emoji-style behavior.” He added, “[If] I see a character raising his fucking eyebrow, or crossing his arms, having a sassy pose — oh, I hate that shit. [Why] does everything act as if they’re in a sitcom? I think it is emotional pornography. All the families are happy and sassy and quick, everyone has a one-liner. Well, my dad was boring. I was boring. Everybody in my family was boring. We had no one-liners. We’re all fucked up. That’s what I want to see animated. I would love to see real life in animation. I actually think it’s urgent. think it’s urgent to see real life in animation.”

What he talks about here is something I find omnipresent in modern American animation, or from studios that are funded by and/or trying to sell to americans (ex: Illumination McGuff). Here del Toro specifically mentions characters and emotions and how they are codified, which would include how characters are written, how animated their emotions and body language are, how they interact... He also mentions studio animation, an important distinction - this does not include indie animators!

A few things, adding * to those he's specifically calling out here, and more of my own that are not stated but I feel match the style

*one liners

*the "dreamworks face"

*sassy attitude

*quick banter

*taking poses

looking into the camera

overtly smooth, cartoony body language

characters explaining their emotions, plot resolutions around this

I will now get to examples, starting by a comparison between two animated films. Both of these films are contemporary, family-audience, french animated films. They share similarities in setting, being medieval fantasy fairytales about female heroes. One of these films was made with an american audience in mind (Pil), and the other caters to a french audience (Dragon Princess). You can compare how the characters act in both trailers:

Try and only focus on dialog, body language and expressions, barring art style and story!

Feature films that, in my opinion, also fit that "emoji style behaviour" (* for those I have not fully watched) any why:

Turning Red: the sass, the one liners, body language, camera looking, quick banter, plot resolution with characters explaining their emotions. The whole film fits

Puss in Boots: The last wish: sass, one liners, body language, banter, characters explaining their emotions. Scenes like Puss meeting his past lives and the dog's dialog are strong offenders

The emperor's new groove: sass, one liners, posing, banter

Encanto: sass, posing, banter; the explaining their emotions to drive the plot is ridiculously present to the point where I'd say del Toro was vagueing that one with the family example

Klaus: posing, banter, body language, explaining their emotions

*Nimona: sass, posing, banter, expressions...I only watched the trailer so can't say much but it leans HARD into the rapid fire quip territory with emotional resolution

*Trolls: sass, posing, banter, body language, camera looking...

Regarding films that do not do this, the quick answer would be...watch foreign (=not american) and/or older films. Nowadays with internet a massive catalogue is available, although the USA has such a monopoly on animation via its advertising budget other countries don't have that those films can be harder to find especially if you only use english-speaking internet.

As most studio animation is for a young or family audience and my entire example list above is, I will give some recommendations of films that are also for such an audience, but with older and worldwide picks. Some of these films are fully available on YouTube (although not in english always), so I'll be linking that when possible!

Mom is pouring rain (France, 2020s) (trailer): A shorter film about a little girl sent to live with her grandmother while her mom heals from depression. Has emotions front and center but expressed and animated in a way typical of modern french animation, with cartoony designs but subtler, more "boring" acting

The little prince and the eight headed dragon (Japan, 1960s): Beautifully animated in a style distinct from anime, this is a simple folktale adaptation. Fully on YouTube, albeit in its original english dub who's quality is frankly not great.

Next! (UK, 1990s): Stop motion short by an animator who specifically explores subtler, harder to animate expressions, as well as the art of theater, represented here by a Shakespear puppet playing out his works as a one-man show.

Ramayana (India, 1990s): Animated version of the legend of the same name, coupling a Ghibli art style with your ancient legend's large scale battles and polite heroes.

Ne Zha (China, 2010s)(trailer): that trailer is dead serious, it's actually a pretty damn silly movie! Including this one because as a big CGI animated film it's interesting to compare to what Pixar/Dreamworks/etc is doing.

...I'm realizing that I included a whole lot of animated folk tales so for modern chinese animation I'll also name Legend of Hei (2020s)(trailer), an original fantasy film with indie origins and a whole lot of over the top action.

As for films from the US that do NOT match that style? As a country the US has a rich history of animation asides of Disney! I personally grew up on Tex Avery and Looney Tunes cartoons who (pre-90s) are great examples of this.

For more adult films, I'll link my list of mature animation recommendations!

My ask remains opens for any clarifications :) have a nice day!

[fictionadventurer]

Why did no one tell me about Cats Don't Dance? I had to hear it mentioned in an off-hand line in a Youtube video as an example of a good movie that flopped because it was screwed over by the studio, then I had to seek it out for myself, and only then find out:

It was the first non-Disney movie to win the Annie Award for Best Picture (it beat out Hercules).

It's an animated tribute to 1930s movie musicals done in the 1990s, which gives it a very Animaniacs vibe.

It has an insanely energetic and stretchy animation style.

It gives us the story of a starry-eyed song-and-dance man (who happens to be a talking cat) who leaves small-town Indiana hoping to make it big in Hollywood, only to find that talking animals don't get any starring roles. And then of course he meets a motley crew of eccentric animal actors who've had to content themselves with stereotyped bit parts and inspire them to try for better.

It has a romance where the cynical girl who had her dreams crushed gets inspired by the innocent, wide-eyed idealist to chase after hope again. (Which happens to be one of my special favorite kind of romances).

It's directed by a guy who'd go on to direct The Emperor's New Groove.

It's got songs by Randy Newman.

Scott Bakula voices the lead (and has a surprisingly decent singing voice).

Don Knotts plays a superstitious turtle.

There is a piano-playing elephant voiced by John Rhys-Davies.

The actress who voiced Cruella de Ville came out of retirement to voice a chain-smoking elderly fish (who might be my favorite side character).

Gene Kelly did the choreography (and it was the last project he worked on before his death).

The villain is an utterly insane Shirley-Temple-type child star who gets some of the most over-the-top animation I've ever seen.

She has a giant monstrous butler--like, it is absurd how giant this guy is.

And there are wild setpieces and big musical numbers and a scene with a clever use of color to show inner emotions.

It's not like the greatest movie ever made or anything, but it's a solid B-tier story that's a lot of fun and happens to perfectly fit my taste in so many ways, so I'm upset no one bothered to alert me to its existence.

[mochinomnoms]

Yev Quispe (TWST OC)

Twisted from The Emperor's New Groove

“The new Housewarden of Pomefiore appointed after Vil Schoenheit's third year. A remarkably beautiful young man with skills rivaling the most experienced apothecaries. He demands attention and respect from all due to his status as a young heir, lest you become an unwilling subject in his experiments.”

template by: @unfinished-projects-galore / art by: @the-trinket-witch

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I CAN FINALLY MAKE ONE OF THESE!!!!! I was so excited to commission Trinket and they did such an amazing job with Yev???!!!?!?! He's sooooo beautiful and they really paid attention to all the details and did wonderful references to Yzma I'm in love!!!! I got so excited that I spent all of my free time today editing this lovely TWST OC template by Vinnie and all together it all looks so good! I hope to continue this bit by bit with the other characters later on!

If you are interested in getting a sprite done for your OCs in the TWST style, do look into commissioning Trinket! ^_^

[entity9silvergen]

Everyone vote for Kronk in round 3

Btw for round 2 since there's an uneven number of characters I'm giving Kronk an automatic pass since he is basically the posterchild himbo and will probably destroy just about any character he's matched up against anyway (so he's probably gonna win the whole tournament anyway but it's not about the destination it's about the journey-). Basically Kronk is automatically in round 3 and I'm hoping the character number won't be uneven anymore by then (if it is I may do that thing where a character who got eliminated earlier gets to be brought back by popular demand or something idk-)

[loupy-mongoose]

Ehe~

Got another load of doodles!

First some character studies of Coco and Timber after watching The Emperor's New Groove for the millionth time and getting a character design bug. That movie is peak character design. It's just peak in a lot of ways, actually.

There's some shirtless Timber ahead, if that's uncomfortable for anyone.

I keep wanting to sit down and try to better unify everybody style wise, but I keep getting distracted. ;w;

And then someone called Brook pretty, and it sent me down a Brook spiral.

This is a joke I've had in mind for awhile, I finally got to put it to action, lol

I love this woman dearly~<3

Confident, by Demi Lovato is a good theme for her~

And some Talon and the twins! :D

There's a noticeable trend in my stories and Talon is part of it.

[foone]

My three favorite examples of Disney wasting money making animated films:

1. They storyboarded and began animating the climax of Lilo & Stitch, which involves the characters hijacking a 747 jet and flying it though the skyscrapers of downtown Honolulu. A few weeks before the end of production, 9/11 happens, and the scene has to be completely redone.

2. Jeffrey Katzenberg decides to re-edit The Black Cauldron, after it is basically complete. In a medium that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute to produce, he cuts 12 minutes of completed animation. (yes, every animator in the world still wants to kill him for this)

3. After the success of Elton John's soundtrack for The Lion King, they hire Sting to write eight original songs for The Kingdom of the Sun. The film then gets renamed to The Emperor's New Groove, and is NO LONGER A MUSICAL. They decide to have one song to open the film, though, but after offering the song to Sting, he says he (49) is too old to sing it in the style they want. They then go with Tom Jones (60).

Seriously. They hired a man with 17 Grammy awards, an Emmy and a Golden Globe, the guy with a BMI award for the most played song in radio history (Every Breath You Take), who has sold 100 million records, and they paid him to write eight original songs for them, and THEN decided they didn't want to make a musical after all.

The guy has so many awards WIKIPEDIA DIDN'T PUT THEM ON HIS MAIN PAGE, THEY HAD TO SPLIT THEM OFF INTO A SUBPAGE BECAUSE IT WAS GETTING TOO LONG.

[anonymous-dentist]

i saw something about a guapoduo ratatouille au.. and i can’t stop thinking about it, do you think you’d write something like that? and if not, do you at least have any thoughts about it?👀

Make it princess and the frog style

Roier was an aspiring chef who was turned into a rat by his evil jealous twin brother

Don’t question it

Meanwhile Cellbit is a serial killer who just escaped from prison and needs a job so he can provide for his newfound son

Yea, Richarlyson broke him out. Don’t question it

Roier is like “oh hey, we can work with this”

And so they do

Roier moves Cellbit around the kitchen, and Cellbit keeps his pretty well paying job

Meanwhile the restaurant owner is Cucurucho, who helped Doied make the Rat Spell in the first place (kinda like emperor’s new groove)

So Cucurucho and Doied work together to get exterminators to come to the restaurant, and they fire Cellbit for uh. Being a literal goddamn escaped convict

Cellbit uses his last moment before being caught to throw Roier the Rat to safety outside of the building. Then, he’s caught by his bosses, but the exterminators don’t catch Roier

By a magic technicality, this act of selfless devotion to a true friend counts as an act of True Love, so Roier is turned back to normal just in time to land in a dumpster, and he’s knocked out

A few hours later, Cellbit is going through the alley calling “Rat! Rat!!” looking for his little rat buddy, but what he finds instead is a hot guy passed out in a dumpster

Hot guy wakes up, sees Cellbit, grins, shouts Cellbit’s name happily, and the whole thing is explained

It’s a fairy tale, don’t worry about it

Together, they come up with a revenge plan

Yippee!

The next day, a food critic is meant to come to the restaurant, and Roier is PISSED about the whole rat thing

So naturally he gathers a bunch of his old rat friends together and gets them to go ruin the kitchens and everything with Cellbit, who locks Cucurucho in a closet

While that’s going on, Roier secretly takes Doied’s place and gives the food critic the worst food EVER!! It’s SO BAD!

The Federation restaurant is naturally shut down, rip to them

Meanwhile Cellbit and Roier start dating and open a little cafe together where Roier can cook and Cellbit can serve coffee. And it’s a happily ever after

The End