Bevendre

Big Hero 6 doesn’t come out for months, yet the drama surrounding it is already pissing me off.  We’ve seen ONE PICTURE of a character, one picture in which said character’s head is partially covered and people are in an uproar because the facial model looks similar, or even identical, to that of Rapunzel, Anna and Elsa.  Because of this, there are already shouts that Disney is being lazy and recycling models.

It’s one picture.

We haven’t seen this character in motion.  We haven’t heard how she’s going to sound, or seen how she’s going to act.  All that people are going off of is one picture of one character out of a cast that is arguably the most diverse and dynamic in Disney’s animated history.

I don’t know how long Disney has had Big Hero 6 in the works, but given the past few animated movies and the space between them I really don’t think it should be as big of a deal as it is being made out to be.  This film is coming out within a year of Frozen, which came out within a year of Wreck-it-Ralph.  All of that is from the same studio.  That models are being reused on certain characters within movies that are released within one year of one another should be understandable, especially by artists who work to put out consistent works.

Could Disney have made a new face model for Anna/Elsa, or for this new character? Yes.  Does it make them lazy that they didn’t? No.  Why not? Because the characters SHOULD NOT BE DEFINED BY THE STRUCTURE OF THEIR FACES OR SHAPE OF THEIR BODIES.

If you want to be mad and complain about Big Hero 6, then that’s fine.  Please, save it for after we’ve seen more of these characters, or better yet for after the god damn movie comes out.