Bevendre

People, or at least Tumblr, have a tendency to attack Disney on character design more than other companies. Ghibli often reuses character designs among female protagonists, not all the time but often. Disney does the same thing, but they’re the ones who get bashed.

Dreamworks almost never uses non-white characters, while Disney has touched most ethnicities in the last 2 decades, but it was Disney that was slammed when it portrayed northern European settings as being predominately white in population (Frozen vs. HTTYD2).

People getting upset about a character is one thing. People looking at and for flaws is one thing.

Going after a single company for doing something that is fairly commonplace in the industry, while completely ignoring the very same issues from opposing companies. Completely disregarding characters, and the works of designers and animators because of similarities in design, and leaving the judgement solely with the design without regard for the aspects that /should/ be what defines a character above all else. Deigning a property unworthy of attention because of one member of a diverse cast being similar to those of previous works, months before anything else is seen of the property. That is another thing entirely.

As an artist, as a writer, as a critic, and as a person, it is that thing that makes me mad. It’s not the judgements themselves, but their focus and their cause that makes me livid.