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The Pixar version "Americanized" her....
Yup. She looks whitewashed.
That's assuming Americans are all white...
I don't think it did. The Pixar version is just simpler, so it's difficult to bring out features of race in a person's face that well.
This explanation makes no sense. Are you saying white faces are simpler and therefore the default? Idgi.
They managed to animate every strand o hair on Merida's head. Surely they're not shitty artists to the point of where there can't take their craft and their style far enough to correctly represent a person's ethnicity. Unless they don't want to, or they can, but... they don't want to. Didn't they also have the excuse of reusing Rapunzel / Elsa / Anna's faces that it was "too hard to animate a woman's face"? Totally an art issue -__-
No, I'm saying the differences are not as easy to show. I don't think they look white either. They are just generally made to look more "Cute" by rounding their faces, enlarging their eyes and decreasing the size of their nose to resemble that of a baby. In the process many distinct racial features disappear, and the final result just looks like a general "raceless" face. Of course, there are some features easier to keep, such as almond-shaped eyes, and dark hair and eye colours. I am not saying it would be impossible to make the girl in the picture look more Asian, but it might prove difficult, especially since the inspiration for the style mainly animates white characters, and since the artist probably gets more commissions from white people, (as she is the only Asian I've seen among these pictures). It is incredibly difficult to capture something you are not used to drawing often.
No the different shade is just because it is difficult to capture the original shade, especially in such lighting. I can't capture my own skin colour perfectly, for heaven's sake. Plus, if you look at the colour of her back, the artist captured that quite well. And they just aplied the same colour on the face, which is in a bit of shadow on the original picture. They made it more luminous (as if there was light coming from where she is facing too), becasue that looks better on this kind of art than the face being in shadow.
Many shades lighter is simpler?
I live in China and I know plenty of women like that.....and they're all spoken for...
The real life model is beautiful but the CG image does not capture that, she looks like a different person of a different race even.
Agreed!
Seriously...WTF is wrong with you IDIOTS who are literally pointing out every little detail that is off, including the MORONS who are pulling the "race" card?!?!? Don't worry, I'll wait.... I'm certain that the artist who created these was NOT in any way trying to offend anyone. But there is always that one idiot, and in this case many idiots, who try and throw race in the mix. Your stupidity is exhausting.
Intent and results are two different things. If I didn't mean to elbow you in the face, it make your nose any less broken. It's whitewashed. Every single one of the artist's renditions of people with east Asian ancestry is whitewashed. It's not every little detail, it's a glaring reoccurrence. YOUR stupidity is damaging.
Well done on saying that I am proud of that
Thank you. I'm glad someone said it.
The Pixar version "Americanized" her....
Yup. She looks whitewashed.
That's assuming Americans are all white...
I don't think it did. The Pixar version is just simpler, so it's difficult to bring out features of race in a person's face that well.
This explanation makes no sense. Are you saying white faces are simpler and therefore the default? Idgi.
They managed to animate every strand o hair on Merida's head. Surely they're not shitty artists to the point of where there can't take their craft and their style far enough to correctly represent a person's ethnicity. Unless they don't want to, or they can, but... they don't want to. Didn't they also have the excuse of reusing Rapunzel / Elsa / Anna's faces that it was "too hard to animate a woman's face"? Totally an art issue -__-
No, I'm saying the differences are not as easy to show. I don't think they look white either. They are just generally made to look more "Cute" by rounding their faces, enlarging their eyes and decreasing the size of their nose to resemble that of a baby. In the process many distinct racial features disappear, and the final result just looks like a general "raceless" face. Of course, there are some features easier to keep, such as almond-shaped eyes, and dark hair and eye colours. I am not saying it would be impossible to make the girl in the picture look more Asian, but it might prove difficult, especially since the inspiration for the style mainly animates white characters, and since the artist probably gets more commissions from white people, (as she is the only Asian I've seen among these pictures). It is incredibly difficult to capture something you are not used to drawing often.
No the different shade is just because it is difficult to capture the original shade, especially in such lighting. I can't capture my own skin colour perfectly, for heaven's sake. Plus, if you look at the colour of her back, the artist captured that quite well. And they just aplied the same colour on the face, which is in a bit of shadow on the original picture. They made it more luminous (as if there was light coming from where she is facing too), becasue that looks better on this kind of art than the face being in shadow.
Many shades lighter is simpler?
I live in China and I know plenty of women like that.....and they're all spoken for...
The real life model is beautiful but the CG image does not capture that, she looks like a different person of a different race even.
Agreed!
Seriously...WTF is wrong with you IDIOTS who are literally pointing out every little detail that is off, including the MORONS who are pulling the "race" card?!?!? Don't worry, I'll wait.... I'm certain that the artist who created these was NOT in any way trying to offend anyone. But there is always that one idiot, and in this case many idiots, who try and throw race in the mix. Your stupidity is exhausting.
Intent and results are two different things. If I didn't mean to elbow you in the face, it make your nose any less broken. It's whitewashed. Every single one of the artist's renditions of people with east Asian ancestry is whitewashed. It's not every little detail, it's a glaring reoccurrence. YOUR stupidity is damaging.
Well done on saying that I am proud of that
Thank you. I'm glad someone said it.