Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Animating the Fairy Tales

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Artwork: Tangled

Medium: Animation Movie

Runtime: 100 minutes

So last Friday I went to see the newly released Disney movie Tangled... for the second time. I have to say, hats off to Disney for making such a good movie. Although I have seen the movie twice I still want to watch it again. The movie is basically Disney's take on the classic fairy tale of Rapunzel. God... the colors in the animation were amazing... most importantly their facial expressions! The expressions were so right on. Makes me wonder if the animators had a minor in psychology. It was better than human acting. You can see all these multitude of emotions on their faces... the happiness, the sorrow, the guilt, the mischief and a whole lot more. I mean you could actually see the exact point of time when Flynn falls in love with Rapunzel. Giving facial expressions to humans might be considered easy but the animators at Disney were very very successful at giving facial expressions to even a horse. Even though there are many animated movies I don't know if Tangled can be compared to any other animated Film. If I had to pick one I would say Pocahontas comes very close to it but its geared more towards the older generation. Despite both movies being from the romance genre, Pocahontas can be claimed to be a beautiful movie, but Tangled definitely comes under the cute category.

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