Tag: animation

k-lionheart:

xeniawarriorprincesa:

With as much as I will drag the emoji movie to the ground, none of my hatred or ill will goes towards the animators. They put in countless hours into creating this film and probably had little to no input on the storyline or script. The artists and animators deserve respect for their hard work and hopefully they will build their skills further from the experience they had on this production. I hope everyone who was on this film gets the opportunity to move up in the industry and get to work on their dream productions.

This is… such an honest and kind post

danguy96:

m4r1p0s4:

deadpan-searcher:

rapunzel-corona-lite:

highkeyheaux:

rapunzel-corona-lite:

soulfullynostalgic:

afatblackfairy:

superninjah:

bobbicai:

letmeprosper:

ghettablasta:

Walt Disney was racist af

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Wow

This breaks my inner child’s heart.

A LOOOOT of cartoons were racist asf back then and Walt Disney was a racist antisemitic asshole. Tom and Jerry did blackface and had that Aunt Jemima type character in there. Looney Toons also.

^^^ of course now when they show tom and jerry now they don’t show the ones with the aunt jemima character and the ones with blackface they skip over those parts. although one they did actually play. Tom put his face in a tea kettle where a dynamite was in and when it exploded he looked like for lack for better words a “nigger sunflower”

y’all aint know all them shits was mad racist lol

Lmao I need you @rapunzel-corona-lite to go away with that hashtag because I know I did too.

Lmaoooo

As a major animation nerd, learning about how racially insensitive alot of old school animation was is kind of a right of passage.

I mean do I dare mention how the old school Superman cartoons of the 1940s were riddled with Anti-Japanese propaganda, as well as featuring a weird episode where Nazis were in a unnamed African country, dressed like quasi-KKK members, and worshiped as gods, all before Superman came and beat them up.

As an animation nerd, I will be the first to tell you old school animation is ripe with Racial insensitivity. It sucks, and it’s hard to look back at it, butt it was the time. Hopefully we learn from it and never make those mistakes again, that’s all.

I stopped being surprised/”offended” by this kinda shit years ago, now I just giggle at its absurdity

To be honest, while I do realize that many of the really offensive stuff is bad, after the initial shock, I try to understand it’s mostly just a product of it’s time, and realize how absurd and stupid is.

Also, it’s worth noting that in this cartoon, Mickey and company were putting on a play of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, an anti-slavery story, written by an abolitionist. Yes, they were doing it in blackface, which is obviously wrong by today’s standards, but the villain of the was still an obviously evil white slave-owner, as it was in the book. 

Oh, and I see that people are still trying to peddle the old “Walt was totes an ebil anti-semite” chestnut, even though he wasn’t as a big a racist as people claim, contributed a lot to helping Jewish artists and Jewish organizations, and any prejudices he did have mostly resulting from him being a man of his time.

Yes, the caricatures are still dated, wrong, and offensive as fuck. But even so, we still should learn our history, so we can be better than we were in the past, and try to learn to better than we once were.