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Character Designs From Disney's Traditionally Animated PRINCESS AND THE FROG Hop Onto The Internet!!
Merrick here...
Sharky17 sent in some characters from Disney's PRINCESS AND THE FROG - who contextualized them via the following psychotic rambling:
Hello from New York. Just got back from Wondercon in San Francisco. A friend of mine who works in TV in Los Angeles got himself and I some pull and we met some celebs from movies and television, attended some great panels, saw the new trailers, plus it was my 1st time at this convention, I had fun. Before I arrived to wotn, my friend attended a panel on Friday for Princess and the Frog the new Disney movie and spoke to someone there he knew who gave him some press-materials for the movie that had some character images from the 2009 christmas movie, wasn't sure if you already saw these, but thought I would send them to you. We got other bags of swag and things, but nothing else really cool enough to share. If you use this, call me; Sharky17
If I'm not mistaken, PRINCESS AND THE FROG marks the first traditionally animated (i.e. not entirely CGI) feature for Disney since HOME ON THE RANGE, which was...what?...five years ago or so? It's brought to us by the directors of THE LITTLE MERMAID and ALADDIN & features music and stuff by Randy Newman.
We've gotten a peek at this film already in the form of the teaser embedded below...
...but it didn't show us as m any characters as we see here.
NOTE: you can...
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Facilier
Naveen & Tiana Enfroggened
Tiana
Louie
Naveen
Ray
Mama Odie
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that all disney princess post Ariel must look identical?
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seconded. must be a law.
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Disney's fare has gotten weaker lately but everything about this one seems to b eok so far
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I assume Facilier wants to use the Frog in some voodoo spell to cure his crippling scoliosis. Then he'll have some musical number about how bent he is.
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Wasn't that a Peckinpah film?
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All dogs go to Heaven for some reason?
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Mar 15, 2009 7:58:41 PM CDT
Finally some real fucking art. Fuck Computer Animation.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Like the dog from Garfield?
I'm glad they're getting back to hand-drawn animation - I've missed it. -
2d animation! on the big screen again! finally. But i think we are all trying to avoid the REAL news here. That's right. The g-force trailer is up on apple...
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Hasn't he scored three out of every four animated features in the last fifteen years?
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Mar 15, 2009 8:16:06 PM CDT
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by geek molester
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So "Tiana" is the new Ariel...and "Ray" is the new Sebastian the Crab? Does that make Mama Odie the new "Ursula"?? Just guessing here. Even though the 2-D approach is a welcome throwback, you think they'd try and be just a little more daring with their model sheets! Same thing with Mr. Newman on the music. (*soberly reflects to self*) ...Ah, well. Kids'll love it anyway.
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Traditional animation? check! looks good.
New Setting, ethnic variety, New Orleans? check! looks good!
Girl can be of any race (asian, black, American Indian, etc) as long as Male Romantic Lead is the whitest frat boy dickhead you can find? Check and check! When a non-white male kisses a white female in a Disney cartoon, I'll say we've turned a corner. But you know it's only business. Who's gonna buy that? Riiiiight...
It's not a slight to white folks, at all. It's just something to think about. Not even the Fresh Prince or Denzel kiss white women on screen. I'm just sayin'. You know it's true.
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Disney has bent over backward trying to accomodate anti-defamation squadrons on this movie, and the result will be that for all their effort Disney wil still get slapped with rants that this is racist when it gets made. The only way to make sure it's NOT considered racist? Make sure the non-white characters are shown in ALL circumstances being SUPERIOR - note I'm not saying "equal" - to all white characters, denigrating them constantly - while at the same time following ugly reverse racism stereotyping. And before you say anything, I'm Native American by blood.
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Mar 15, 2009 9:02:38 PM CDT
Obviously, Tiana didn't learn anything from the Michael Jackson
by alfie boy
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Mar 15, 2009 9:03:40 PM CDT
Obviously, Tiana didn't learn anything from the Michael Jackson
by alfie boy
hanging the baby over the balcony screw-up, now did she?
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Hancock, for one. Smith kisses Theron - hell, they were married even.
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It has that old school Disney anthropomorphic-but-still-animalistic look... like the Jungle Book characters. The rest look fairly generic... no matter what colors they filled in the lines with.
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I want more!
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Hancock. Yes. I loved it, even.
Now, how about an animated feature?
BTW, look at that guy's face. Smug, arrogant, lounge lizard? Come on, you know it's true. -
Hand-drawn art, yes, but not good hand-drawn art. Terrible character designs.
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does it have to be African American specifically? or just inter-racial? Atlantis and Road to El Dorado come to mind
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Anybody notice it?
Looks alright... I like the new orleans setting and I'm anxious to see disney's return to 2d animation but I must admit the art is pretty bland and generic. -
and let Pixar make the toons. I was excited about the prospect of Disney getting back to what really made them, 2d animation. But that excitement is GONE after watching that shit teaser and seeing those shit designs, that prince looks like a Saturday morning rehash.
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the challenge is non-white male, white female animated movie, romantically involved, human, non mutant/other.
just so you all know, i love all this stuff, don't get me wrong. i'm just sayin'. so if i'm wrong, learn me somethin'!
and, come on, that prince guy should be winking and pointing his finger at you, sayin' "heyyy...how YOU doin'?"
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his name is Naveen. Balls in your court, AICN chapter of the NAACP.
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It's sad that they even mentioned this being the most recent 2-D animated film from Disney. That was the most boring, uninspired piece of crud I've ever seen. I own all the Disney animated movies and have watched them multiple times. HotR? I barely made it through the first viewing.
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Mar 15, 2009 10:41:49 PM CDT
Every Disney princess since Ariel looks like her?
by nasty in the pasty
Maybe Belle, but Jasmine, Pocahontas, Esmeralda, Megara, Mulan...?
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Mar 15, 2009 10:52:33 PM CDT
Princess and the Frog to be retitled BIRTH OF A NATION PART 2: D
by willie_watkins
gonna be great
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Ugh, the quality here is awful. Maybe this will encourage Disney to release some decent promo shots for a film even hardened AICN talkbackers seem somewhat enthusiastic for.
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...and I'm amazed by the painterly quality of the art on that 70-year-old film. I don't think any DIsney film since has approached that level of detail. I'm crossing my fingers that RAPUNZEL will break new ground in the area of painterly CG.
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If this takes place in New Orleans... what is she princess of, Mardi Gras?
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Mar 16, 2009 12:21:16 AM CDT
I'm guessing she's wearing a costume for Mardi Gras
by theghostwholurks
Maybe the frog helps her out when the levees break again. And yeah... having a white prince and a black princess in a Disney cartoon set in "the real world" — and in the SOUTH, no less — is just asking for criticism.
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regardless how good the film will be.the people nowadays think that the traditional animation is something of the old,of the past generation,something not as cool as the cgi.
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Seriously, wasn't this cookie cutter design / same old fucking princess plotlines the reason nobody wants to see Disney animation anymore?
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Who refuse to release Song of the South on DVD, because "The Powers That Be" now consider the film racist.
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It's been too long since Disney gave us a hand-drawn film. I remember when they had one every year, and yes, they needed to take a step away from it... for a while. But I think enough time has passed and just watching the teaser, there's something different about it. A charm that's really old school. I'm not sure how well it'll do at the box office. But, I hope that it'll be awesome, regardless of what the numbers say. ... I do think the music is going to be fabulous though. Right? I mean, so long as the horns don't take over!
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...until they learn how to write a friggin script. All these formula cartoons are stale and getting staler. I can't believe they're still making this stuff.
Like today's best music, the independent animation scene's where all the action is. While the big studios tread water, Don Hertzfeldt's latest films will quietly change your friggin life.
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Was funny!
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princess character to their list.
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Seriously Disney, pull your head out of your ass. Setting a european fairy-tale in New Orleans or whatever...? Why not try some new ideas, like Pixar did. Oh, wait...
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...Crash and Burn! Hahahaha!
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Um, seen All Dogs Go to Heaven much? Geez. Otherwise, I like the design of the ringmaster (?) but everything else looks pretty bland. Hopefully they'll have more fun with the sets than with the character designs. New Orleans with an African-American "princess" (?) could be pretty cool but I'm sure they'll cracker it up good, just to make sure they get nothing genuinely interesting from either aspect. Oh well.
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i was hoping that maybe they would try to reinvent 2d animation, not just rehash post Mermaid Disney. looks generic, and probably politically correct.
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Was the last great traditional animated movie.
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was better than Lilo and Stitch.
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