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This Tumblr User “Normalizes” Cartoon Characters And Now People Can’t Decide Which Is Better
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Have you ever wondered what makes the animated characters so cute? Sure, the colors and the fluff help, but the key selling point have always been their child-like features. And over the years animation companies like Disney have made that adorable look an industry standard.
Illustrator Roosa Karlsson aka TheNamelessDoll, calls it the "baby face": "The reason I call the phenomenon “baby-face” has nothing to do with a round face shape, but more with 'huge eyes+big head+tiny body'," writes Roosa. "Basically, when animated women are designed to have the same main features as babies/children. This has recently started appearing a lot in CGI animation, but has been very common in manga/anime for a while (especially shoujo)."
To highlight the technique Karlsson has Photoshopped a series of images where she gave famous animated characters a more realistic face proportions. The changes are subtle, but the overall impression actually changes quite a bit.
To the artist's surprise, her work has sparked a full-on debate on which version is better. Some say that animation doesn't have to represent real life, while the others think these unrealistic beauty standards are distorting our point of view. What do you think?
More info: TheNamelessDoll | Deviant Art (h/t: collegehumor)
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Aunt Cass In "Big Hero 6"
Roxanne In "Megamind"
The edits are way better. The big eyes and big foreheads are, just weird.
Elsa In "Frozen"
Once you see the more 'normal' versions (they're still an exaggeration) the exaggerated eyes and tiny noses look strange. I much prefer the edits.
Elsa In "Frozen"
Like this very much! Looks more like a "human". I think we need more realistic shapes in our society. Especially for our children!
Merida In "Brave"
Trying to make cartoons/animation characters look more realistic... Why actually? There are dragons, unicorns, magic and all sorts of fantasy things/creatures in these movies. So why should the "humans" look realistic?
Because it's a whole new perspective that we can view and I think it's fun and a very good experience for the artist
My thoughts exactly! There's no need for animated characters to look human. Since animals and dragons and all sorts of beasts, even the furniture and appliances can talk and have human like voices. Cartoons are supposed to be world of imagination where anything can happen. If you want realism than watch the goddamn documentaries.
Because humans actually exist and there is some legitimate reasoning to not dehumanize them.
Because humans exist
To prevent unrealistic expectations.You won't meet a dragon in real life.
I don't think anyone is expecting and hoping for large alienesque eyes... come on.
Hey Felicia I just want to let you know that you're a moron!
Felicia is right. There is actually a huge trend where people are paying thousands and tens of thousands of dollars to change their facial features to look more animated.
The characters are REPRESENTATIONS of people, and their shapes are supposed to be vague enough for people to see themselves in these characters. Otherwise, you might as well just stick to live action. Unrealistic beauty standards? Totally exists in magazines and fashion shoots, but this isn't the same thing. I actually think the edited versions project a more unrealistic version of reality because the animated women are perfect in their human form rather than a representation.
Let cartoon carater stay as they are. At the end, they are imagination and not supose to be like humans. Nice work, but i am prefer old version :)
Trying to make cartoons/animation characters look more realistic... Why actually? There are dragons, unicorns, magic and all sorts of fantasy things/creatures in these movies. So why should the "humans" look realistic?
Because it's a whole new perspective that we can view and I think it's fun and a very good experience for the artist
My thoughts exactly! There's no need for animated characters to look human. Since animals and dragons and all sorts of beasts, even the furniture and appliances can talk and have human like voices. Cartoons are supposed to be world of imagination where anything can happen. If you want realism than watch the goddamn documentaries.
Because humans actually exist and there is some legitimate reasoning to not dehumanize them.
Because humans exist
To prevent unrealistic expectations.You won't meet a dragon in real life.
I don't think anyone is expecting and hoping for large alienesque eyes... come on.
Hey Felicia I just want to let you know that you're a moron!
Felicia is right. There is actually a huge trend where people are paying thousands and tens of thousands of dollars to change their facial features to look more animated.
The characters are REPRESENTATIONS of people, and their shapes are supposed to be vague enough for people to see themselves in these characters. Otherwise, you might as well just stick to live action. Unrealistic beauty standards? Totally exists in magazines and fashion shoots, but this isn't the same thing. I actually think the edited versions project a more unrealistic version of reality because the animated women are perfect in their human form rather than a representation.
Let cartoon carater stay as they are. At the end, they are imagination and not supose to be like humans. Nice work, but i am prefer old version :)