Drawtober Day 5 - Kaito Sleeping And His Ladies Decided To Snuggle Up And Join In.

Bought a second hand car a few months back. Last week the CD player started making weird noises. I've never used it before (because it's 2021, ya know). Today I get in car and it starts playing a CD that I swear was not there before.

Honest truth, I eject it and its a Best of Queen album.

It is a true thing...

Watching morning cartoons be like

OG bisexual crisis

Haha look what I found on IG explore (@mcm)

“Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”

— Paulo Coelho

IM NOT CRYING... YOURE CRYING

Mouch!

Detective Conan doodles

You know the main problem with the “live action” Lion King? Why it looks so lifeless?

The hyper realistic style is actually limiting the animators, rather than freeing them. The style makes it much harder to have memorable character designs and good expressions. Real lions don’t need to do things like emote in a way that humans can understand – but characters in a film do. The original movie was more cartoony not due to animation limitations of the time, but because that style genuinely serves the story better.

To show you what I mean, compare these two shots of Simba, from right after Scar says “run away and never return.”

Here is a clear reaction, with a strong beat for us to connect with before the character makes a decision. Even without any dialogue, even without any context, you can understand the emotion there just by the expression and the mannerisms. Is it realistic? No! He’s bright yellow and has eyebrows. But do we empathize with him? Yes!

Meanwhile, here is… a lion. Turning and running. No expression, no beats, no character moments, nothing. He actually can’t express himself because the animators are locked into the realistic style. If they tried to animate a strong expression as warranted for the scene, it would look terrible. Is it realistic? Hell yeah! Look at those textures! Look at that fur! But do we empathize with him? …nah. Not really.

To conclude: when you’re retelling Hamlet with a bunch of animated lions, cartoonish-ness is your friend, not your enemy.