I hope someone thinks this is as aweosme as I do.

[penguinfaery]

Read this article on cracked: http://www.cracked.com/article/231_5-things-hollywood-reuses-more-than-plots/

But while reading, start requiem for a dream, finish up that page, and open the second page in a new tab/window (So requiem for a dream is still playing, and that minute or so of extra reading has gotten you to some awesomely dramatic part.)

Then turn the sound down on the Disney reused clips, so you're watching those with requiem for a dream as the sound track.

It makes it seem so much more intense and sinister. It's awesome.

Also, like...I don't know animation intimately well, but it seems like repainting some of those scenes would be just as easy as redrawing em. Like...making one bear into another bear, yeah, but Maid Marion into Snow White seems waaaaaay more complicated then it's worth.

Also, the thing about reusing name brand intrigues me a lot. Because what happens when a name brand becomes important to a series (Like say, Oceanica Airlines), and then is like...every where else?

Does that imply that, say, the X-files and that 70's show are the same universe because they both have Morley cigarettes? (No, but the thought really freakin amuses me.)

Comments

[slr2moons.livejournal.com]

With animation, it's always faster to copy and tweak what has been drawn before, rather than draw it again from scratch. The pencil art and cels from Snow White would very likely been long gone in the 40 years between it and Robin Hood, so the animators would have consulted the actual film. My guess would be they took each frame, enlarged it, printed it to paper, and used it for reference.

The original dance scene in Snow White was rotoscoped (traced from live-action film footage) in the first place. All of Snow White's on-screen moments of the princess were traced this way, though the animators had to adjust proportions from real life to her character design. She's what, 5 heads tall??

Anyway, pretty much what akkhima said, only with more info. :B *waves her animation degree* I R SKOOLED.

[penguinfaery.livejournal.com]

Danke, to both of you, that makes it make MUCH more sense.

Also OH MAN, i love how DIsney use to have like...actresses in costume and stuff.