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Zootopia, my thoughts.
10 years ago
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I was asked a question on Ask.FM about my thoughts on Zootopia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9lmhBYB11U#_=_
My answer, below:
I'm sorry it took so long to write all this, but I didn't want to leave any stone unturned with this question, as it was one of amazing relevance to my outlook of animation, Disney and almagamating 2D/3D graphics, combined with the furry fandom. This is very important to me that I answer this as accurately as I can, with all corner covered.
I like it. I don't think it's bad. The way it's been portrayed is actually a really cute and stylised outlook on anthropomorphics, and suits what I want to see in such a movie. I'm actually very interested in a lot of the intricacies of things like clothes, food and other little details. I know what the plot's going to be about, and can somewhat predict what the interactions are going to be, but the added little details are what I'm going to be really looking forwards to seeing.
I was initially hoping it was going to be an amalgamation of 3D/2D graphics like they did in the animation short 'Paperman': http://www.disneyanimation.com/projects/paperman
This is where they use the bulk of everything in 3D, but the edges are done in 2D, so that it holds an almost uncanny look of 2D animation. This... this blew my mind in amazement. I saw the animated short shortly before I knew about Zootopia. I was really excited about it, and hoped they would do a similar thing.
Sadly, it doesn't look like the case, however, they have kept the rubber-bounce effect for animation. It's not super realistic, but it's good enough for me to actually appreciate it and to work with it in ideas that I've had, and in respect to the many worlds and ideas others have had for anthropomorphic worlds. I can see many worlds being created to reflect this, and many people possibly looking into the furry fandom with this beautiful chance we have.
This leads to the second side of the story... what I do have a problem with... is not the movie itself, but how people are reacting to it, and likely to go overboard with. Furries are making pornography of it as we speak. I can't change that :/
The one chance we have to really open the world up to what /we/ as a fandom love, and we don't think about how society changes, we think about how sexy it looks. It's kind of a little bit low on a scale of intelligence.
I don't want to say stuff like this, but I get really disappointed when I see what we do to a perfectly good opportunity to open ourselves up to the world, in a normal fashion, just like people talk about star wars, we now have the opportunity to talk about furries in much the same way, referencing a movie that's a popular showcase.
This is a world, a world we can use, to make things, to add a wonderful relationship with others, to create characters, diversity, fun things, we could broach on things the movie shows but doesn't explain, we could make the world fuller and more detailed. There is so much opportunity, I want to see this so badly to go further than the movie. And that's saying a lot. I love the concept of the movie so much!
My answer, below:
I'm sorry it took so long to write all this, but I didn't want to leave any stone unturned with this question, as it was one of amazing relevance to my outlook of animation, Disney and almagamating 2D/3D graphics, combined with the furry fandom. This is very important to me that I answer this as accurately as I can, with all corner covered.
I like it. I don't think it's bad. The way it's been portrayed is actually a really cute and stylised outlook on anthropomorphics, and suits what I want to see in such a movie. I'm actually very interested in a lot of the intricacies of things like clothes, food and other little details. I know what the plot's going to be about, and can somewhat predict what the interactions are going to be, but the added little details are what I'm going to be really looking forwards to seeing.
I was initially hoping it was going to be an amalgamation of 3D/2D graphics like they did in the animation short 'Paperman': http://www.disneyanimation.com/projects/paperman
This is where they use the bulk of everything in 3D, but the edges are done in 2D, so that it holds an almost uncanny look of 2D animation. This... this blew my mind in amazement. I saw the animated short shortly before I knew about Zootopia. I was really excited about it, and hoped they would do a similar thing.
Sadly, it doesn't look like the case, however, they have kept the rubber-bounce effect for animation. It's not super realistic, but it's good enough for me to actually appreciate it and to work with it in ideas that I've had, and in respect to the many worlds and ideas others have had for anthropomorphic worlds. I can see many worlds being created to reflect this, and many people possibly looking into the furry fandom with this beautiful chance we have.
This leads to the second side of the story... what I do have a problem with... is not the movie itself, but how people are reacting to it, and likely to go overboard with. Furries are making pornography of it as we speak. I can't change that :/
The one chance we have to really open the world up to what /we/ as a fandom love, and we don't think about how society changes, we think about how sexy it looks. It's kind of a little bit low on a scale of intelligence.
I don't want to say stuff like this, but I get really disappointed when I see what we do to a perfectly good opportunity to open ourselves up to the world, in a normal fashion, just like people talk about star wars, we now have the opportunity to talk about furries in much the same way, referencing a movie that's a popular showcase.
This is a world, a world we can use, to make things, to add a wonderful relationship with others, to create characters, diversity, fun things, we could broach on things the movie shows but doesn't explain, we could make the world fuller and more detailed. There is so much opportunity, I want to see this so badly to go further than the movie. And that's saying a lot. I love the concept of the movie so much!
