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Tired of seeing the same base female face in every animated film.

posted 8 years ago by Assemble
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Title says it all. These models remind me of those from Megamind, Monsters vs. Aliens, Frozen, and so on - round face shape, small noses, and big eyes, whereas the male characters have much more variety. It's getting to a point where the "female faces are easiest to animate if they're like this" excuse doesn't fly (to be honest, though, that excuse shouldn't have mattered in the first place because it's very untrue - and I'm saying that as someone in the VFX industry. The base mesh is the same. Females have the same expressive range as males. There is literally no reason to use the same design other than making a cookie-cutter "attractive" female.

[–] FishFu 8 years ago

It's the product of competing studios copying the Disney style template. Same thing happened in the 80's and 90's, where everyone wanted to make the next "little Mermaid" or "Beauty and the Beast". Also the fact that a lot of the same artists jump around from studio to studio.

If you want to find variation in character design, you go to TV animation because there is usually more creative freedom in stylization.

[–] lyrahowl-01933 8 years ago

I agree. I remember only one animated female from recent big budget movies that would stray from the pattern, and that was Merida. It's a shame I didn't like the movie itself, though.

[–] gcarras 8 years ago

The main redhead (Jennifer Aniston?) as seen in the stock ad for it reminds me of "Inside Out"'s Riley's friend Meg.

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MAGIC=Sarah Silverman.

[–] vircar2 8 years ago

Jennifer was the Mom-a blonde....the redhead was Katie Crown who voiced Tulip in the movie. Tulip does remind me of Meg in Inside Out too.