Disney School of Acting and Mime: Difference between revisions

Note that [[Large Ham|Hamming it Large 101]] is a required class at [[Disney School of Acting and Mime]] - after all, [[Milking the Giant Cow|gesturing plentifully]] is a great way to convey emotion silently. The realistic but overblown movements hark back to Silent Film and [[Vaudeville]] when actors had to emote more visibly. The style is rooted in visual realism while many younger animated works (after the migration of cartoons from film to TV) [[Limited Animation|are more stylized and hence easier and cheaper to animate]] as not the whole body of a character has to move from one frame to the next. This also sets this style apart from [[Anime]].

 

 

Historically, this often went together with [[Mickey Mousing]], accentuating a character's body language even further.

** This crosses over into ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', naturally.<ref>Interesting because the other company involved in the games, ''[[Square Enix]]'', averts it.</ref>

* [[Looney Tunes]], although they do have plenty of non-mime acting at the same time.

* [[Fleischer Studios]] used this in [[Max Fleischers Gullivers Travels|Gulliver's Travels]] and [[Mr. Bug Goes to Town]].

* The movies of ex-Disney animator [[Don Bluth]] use this, and as such are unfortunately why [[All Animation Is Disney|his films get mistaken for Disney]] ones. Bluth idolized the style, and wanted to keep it alive through his work at a time when Disney was moving away from it.

* ''[[The Swan Princess]]'' films use this.

* Explicitly avoided in [[John Kricfalusi]] and [[Ralph Bakshi]] cartoons, since they feel it's stale and cliche. Ralph even spoke out to young animators to stop using this and try and experiment with new types of acting.

* ''[[Fern Gully]]'', ''[[Once Upon a Forest]]'', and ''[[The Pagemaster]]'' use this.

* The movies done by [[Amblimation]] used this.

* All of [[Dreamworks Animation]]'s hand-drawn animated films use this.

 

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