Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs was the first fully cel-animated feature length film, and the first of the classical Disney movies - arguably one of the most influential series' or category of films in children's animated films today. It was an adaptation of the classic Brothers Grimm story, and is the most iconic retelling of the story. Thought no one thought it would be successful, Walt disney fought to get it made, and it is probably one of the films in history most worth having been fought for. I love how we have so many iconic films based on fairytales, making them a lot more memorable and well known. If I was to adapt a fairytale, I would want to make my animations as stylistic and memorable as Disney have done with theirs, as you can tell throughout them all both who made it and what story it is very easily, although I would be inclined to look at more original concepts and ideas rather than just adapting things.



The newest 2D Disney film of the same technique in the Princess and the Frog. The animation since has gotten a lot smoother, and a lot more ambitious with techniques. Especially in the clip shown above - they try a completely different almost vector style, using no lines and much more stylised ideas that aren't seen in other Disney films. They stick to very strict colour schemes instead of what was around her before the song started, and has a completely different effect than other Disney songs do. I personally love this style and how they dared to try something different. Even if it wasn't their most successful film, I think that Disney could do a lot more if they used some of the ideas or willingness to experiment from this.