Animation Blog #4

Blog 4 (Application) Walt Disney said (chapter 4), “I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.” What does he mean? Is there a contradiction here with arguments made in chapter 2? Think deeply. Distinguish the two arguments: Do they conflict? Apply your example (create an example)

Realism was one of the many things, proposed in the Disney animation studio when they first started out, Walt Disney took the idea half heartedly, instead he pushed the idea of the 12 Principles of Animation. Later on in the years, Walt Disney embraced the idea of realism and pressed his animators to take it on themselves as well.  I feel that there is a contradiction between the arguments made in Chapter 2, basically Walt and his animators had no idea how to make anything except  spot gags, steretoyped figures and also their characters lacked personality as well.  Then suddenly later on,  Walt Disney  stated that he "definitely feels that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real," this demonstrates that suddenly Disney had a "magical idea" and then suddenly he decided to pursue the real, which was realism.  In the end, the Disney animations studio embraced the techmique of realism to its fullest. 

An example of the evolution of realism, was Disney's latest which was Frozen , compared to Sleeping Beauty, Frozen has come a long way in the realism world.