July 6, 2007
It's not plagarism if you wrote it yourself
Here's a link to a bunch of side-by-side Disney animation cels showing how they've reused animations in various films.
I view this as kind of a fun Easter egg hunt, not a problem with the work. Back then the stuff was all drawn by hand, so any way of reducing the number of frames you had to draw from scratch would have saved dozens of hours per scene. It's kind of like Asimov: it's okay if you're stealing if you're stealing from yourself.
That is, provided what you're stealing from is worth stealing from. There's a reason people probably don't reuse frames from these all that often.
I just watched Hotel Rwanda last night and we had a discussion about genocide and the mindset that has to be created to make a society turn completely insane like that. A lot of it depends on the leaders' ability to dehumanize the target group. I can see why Disney isn't really proud of being a part of that kind of thing. Profiling is one thing. So is making valid generalizations about a culture or group. Dehumanizing them is quite another, and it often has chilling results.
Posted by: Becca at July 7, 2007 10:16 AM