Evolution of animation

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History of Popular Culture—Week 5, Assignment 1

You’ve watched the animated movies Snow White and Toy Story. If Snow White were redone as a computer-animated modern-day feature, how might it differ from its original form and content?

The warm, hand-drawn features present in the original would be lost. The sometimes fuzzy lines and soft, varied colors of the original “Snow White” would give way to the clean, stark contrasting lines and bright, solid colors that can be seen in recent animated films such as “Toy Story” and “Finding Nemo.”

A newer version of “Snow White” would have more depth. Today’s 3D modelling software allows artists to add numerous light sources, shadows, and textures that would give an updated “Snow White” much more realistic perception of depth than the flat drawings of the original.

I, too, think that the film would be darker, and out of necessity; it would not sell nearly as well in today’s relatively insensitive culture. The villain would be more ominous, the chase scenes more tense.

One thing that has remained fairly consistent throughout Disney’s many years of developing full-length animated features is the music. Disney productions have always placed a great emphasis on quality soundtracks for their animations. Even while nearly every other aspect of Disney films’ development has been updated to use newer technology, the music—or rather, the qualities of the music—have not changed much.

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