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why Wish's soulless animation is worse than you thought
Disney's Wish is just the Wish version of Tangled. the way I went from "I can't make a video about this movie" to "let me actually read the whole art book in the middle of the night and make a 30-minute video analyzing the animation" is very on brand I must say. Also, I highly recommend the Tangled art book if you love the movie as much as I do 💛
Technical breakdown of Wish's animation (by an animator): czcams.com/video/oT5yzciQCJ4/video.htmlsi=6H73HNefTKYu_XkC
・*⋆☽ *chapters* ☾ ⋆*・
00:00 intro
01:59 milestone movies
02:18 animation innovation
05:48 colour
07:31 lighting
09:26 musical visuals
11:34 kingdoms
13:00 insignias
14:00 forests
16:21 towers
18:45 Asha vs Rapunzel
20:40 goals
22:49 visual humour
23:14 legacy
24:35 story issues
25:38 goodnight/i love Tangled
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References:
The Art of Wish (Book)
The Art of Tangled (Book)
Nathan and Byron Interview: czcams.com/video/7GhDxrMJrQ4/video.html
i analyze the animation of Wish (Disney, 2023), starring Ariana DeBose as Asha, and Tangled (Disney, 2010), starring Mandy Moore as Rapunzel.
#videoessay #Wish #Tangled #Disney
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Komentáře

  • @techanina5308
    @techanina5308 Před 2 minutami

    Wish looked like a spin off episode of Sophia the 1st lmao

  • @Rinkatoo
    @Rinkatoo Před 13 minutami

    I really really hope you do a part 2 🫶🏻

  • @Rockstar_Baby
    @Rockstar_Baby Před hodinou

    I love this movie so much but I gotta say my least favorite part is Ken, he's basically the main antagonist to the whole movie just because barbie didn't like him like that, I don't like him lol

  • @laceyellis5578
    @laceyellis5578 Před hodinou

    From what I’ve Personally noticed there’s two places you can take a story in film, (well hold on kinda hear me out) Something like game of thrones might be mainly swept by it’s story or ability to teach but also has elements of color because to a degree it’s not about the story it’s about fantasy. It’s about falling into an imaginary world for a minute. And that’s what defines Disney. And that’s what Disney forgot here. If your gonna sell a fantasy, make it a fantasy. I think that’s why some indie films seems so overly artistic. Because they want you to watch anyways when the overall message gets boring at points. ANYWAYS All this to say your story better be realllll strong if you wanna make your princess movie grey themed

  • @ElicBehexan
    @ElicBehexan Před 2 hodinami

    I have not seen Wish. I really don't know anything about it. However, I did think Tangled was an excellent movie. Maybe not the best ever made, but there were so many things that it did right. I agree that Flynn was probably the best romantic lead in any of the movies. He came across as a cad, but it turned out he was just a little boy playing at being one. No Prince Charming to ride and fight the evil witch, he was did end up trying to rescue her, but instead she rescued him.

  • @jesterday3965
    @jesterday3965 Před 2 hodinami

    AAAAH THAT'S WHAT BOTHERED ME ABOUT WISH!!! THE LIGHTING!!!!! THE CONTRAST IS HORRIFIC!!

  • @pearljam6976
    @pearljam6976 Před 4 hodinami

    Where the heck is Doja Cat tho? I mean I know she is arguably a hip hop artist/rapper but I think many of her top songs crossover into pop and her impact on pop culture and the music industry has been monumental despite controversy. Personally, I'd categorize her as a performer/trendsetter category as well, although recently I think she is more on the visionary side ah la Paint the Town Red.

  • @MonsieurSchue
    @MonsieurSchue Před 5 hodinami

    Somehow her music videos and styles just remind me of Ava Max. Speaking of which I don't get why Ava is so underrated in US.

  • @ohifonlyx33
    @ohifonlyx33 Před 6 hodinami

    Sabrina's aesthetic seems to be "hyper-sexualized minor" in the same way people will dress up as "s*xy school girls" ...i can't be the only one who thinks it's weird. 🤷‍♀️

    • @star_baker
      @star_baker Před 2 hodinami

      She’s literally 25 and started this aesthetic well into her young adulthood

    • @ohifonlyx33
      @ohifonlyx33 Před hodinou

      @@star_baker i didn't say she IS a minor. Just that it's weird for an adult to sexualize dressing up like a little girl. I like the girlish feminine aesthetic, but just not how sexualized it is.

  • @nerolia_gaming8030
    @nerolia_gaming8030 Před 6 hodinami

    I watched it once and one thing I remember now about Cinderella movie is that it has a good intrigue. Though we all know the Cinderella story, obviously, this movie added so much to the plot that I never knew what to expect in the next scene. So it kept me watching till the very end. I can't retell you the plot because it was complicated and intriguing... and a lot like life-like. It was believeable.

  • @Alyse12
    @Alyse12 Před 7 hodinami

    what was the LAST good Disney movie?

    • @htsunmiku
      @htsunmiku Před 3 hodinami

      🫣encanto? (+ it's the last time a film had a somewhat successful song. nothing compared to frozen ofc) also i personally enjoyed turning red (tho that's pixar ig)

    • @Alyse12
      @Alyse12 Před 2 hodinami

      @@htsunmiku is encanto a good movie still? :)

  • @catbatrat1760
    @catbatrat1760 Před 7 hodinami

    20:11-20:22 SAME!! :D

  • @Nicamon
    @Nicamon Před 7 hodinami

    *THIS VIDEO IS PERFECTION.* 🤩 You said basically everything I think about this show and these characters and pointed out several problems a lot of other people either missed or _dismissed._ But,unlike you,I *do* want to watch the 2nd season of"Wednesday". Also,I got a little fond of the Wednesday x Tyler ship(even if Twitter spoiled to me that Tyler was the monster before I could watch ep 1x02!😖💢)and I liked Wednesday with him more than with Xavier,but probably the main reason was that I find Tyler slightly more attractive than Xavier.

  • @randomlyLeah
    @randomlyLeah Před 7 hodinami

    This video makes me want to go and rewatch tangle😆 and thank you so much for that please do make an in-depth Video about tangle I'd love to watch that😍

  • @jessalyncaple8203
    @jessalyncaple8203 Před 8 hodinami

    Tangled is literally one of my all time favorite movies. From Rapunzel to Flynn to the scenery, it's just so beautiful and heartwarming. I'm so glad I haven't wasted time watching Wish when I could just go re-watch Tangled again😂

  • @missvanillacchi
    @missvanillacchi Před 8 hodinami

    her whole aesthetic is to die for

  • @Rajaalke
    @Rajaalke Před 9 hodinami

    I also love Flynn Ryder ❤

  • @theghettoone6638
    @theghettoone6638 Před 10 hodinami

    umm no i think it works for cinderella bc her story is simple and easy

  • @marybethcasey8358
    @marybethcasey8358 Před 10 hodinami

    Idk what your talking about Aladdin SLAYED

  • @elliestephenson4511
    @elliestephenson4511 Před 11 hodinami

    Tangled is my favourite Disney 3d Princess movie 100000% I am also her and wish I had my own Flynn… 🫠 I rewatch it on a regular basis and always have the music in my head Couldn’t agree more with everything you said, just wish they went with some of the concept art and turning the star into a love interest! It’s been said before and I will say it again… we were ROBBED Thank you for conveying my feelings with this movie.. I hope that Disney takes the criticism learns from it cos this all comes from a place of love really… there always hope ✨🫠

  • @anadia2201
    @anadia2201 Před 11 hodinami

    Watching Wish felt.. empty. I felt like there was no purpose to the whole movie at all. I felt like they were to focused on trying to make it "the one hundredth year" movie rather than just trying to make it *good* For me, Wish sucked.

  • @danielles7766
    @danielles7766 Před 12 hodinami

    Agree 100%. Disney as a company should update their theme parks instead of pushing movies to follow their theme parks

  • @chrisdemetriou8593
    @chrisdemetriou8593 Před 12 hodinami

    Great video! My immidiate thought about "Wish" when I saw the trailers was that the compositions felt extremely boring. Like, most of the shots feel like they just include a character awkwardly standing in a medium shot, and just... there's nothing around them. The background is just forgettable, grey noise. I think they tried to recreate the feel of old-school 2D animation, where the backgrounds were watercolor and the characters were celluloid, so the moving parts really popped. It feels like the creators of "Wish" dulled down and pulled back the backgrounds, to make them feel disconnected from the foregrounds, but that just makes every composition empty as heck. In old Disney cartoons, background elements (trees, mountains, buildings, people etc) combined to create interesting shapes and staging for every shot. Here, it's just a character standing in front of a very distant, boring background. You said that "Wish" feels a lot like current Disney and it's true: The whole movie feels like it was shot on green screen! Like their live-action remakes or Disney+ series, this movie feels like it was shot in the Volume, a series of grey, medium shots, were a couple of characters stand around in front of a distant background, interacting with nothing.

  • @littlekitty4562
    @littlekitty4562 Před 12 hodinami

    Wish seriously looks like a cheap kids shoe

  • @sealanternz9837
    @sealanternz9837 Před 13 hodinami

    'I want song' that immediately comes to mind os Waiting for a Miracle in Encanto, that is a song that gets you even further into Mirabel's character

  • @voronartista
    @voronartista Před 13 hodinami

    the worst fashion choice was Gretchen, she was so classy in both og musical and especially the og movie😭

  • @Scriblyn
    @Scriblyn Před 13 hodinami

    I gotta watch Tangled again

  • @linnylinlinlin
    @linnylinlinlin Před 14 hodinami

    Tangled is on my list of movies I could rewatch over and over and still love it as if I’m watching it for the first time.

  • @grateful7785
    @grateful7785 Před 14 hodinami

    Wow, so insightful. Agree!

  • @gracehopps6267
    @gracehopps6267 Před 14 hodinami

    I'd love to hear you talk about chappell roan ! it's definitely early, but to me, at least, she's doing something similar to sabrina, just slightly more on the vocalist side and for a queer audience

  • @91JLovesDisney
    @91JLovesDisney Před 14 hodinami

    This movie just feels devoid of contrast in every sense of the word. Color, lighting, plot, good vs evil, meaning behind songs, personalities. I think that's why it feels AI - AI isn't necessarily bad at writing things but the things it makes are so clearly not "thought out".

  • @ellouisebadger849
    @ellouisebadger849 Před 15 hodinami

    I liked both movies. I enjoyed Wish personally... 😅

  • @jennifermunro4374
    @jennifermunro4374 Před 15 hodinami

    How can one of the most lauded animation studios make a freaking film with FLAT LIGHTING. The amazing gift of watercolour is contrast! You can see it in the concept art! But they just didn't add any of the dramatic lighting. For shame

  • @themiddleones11
    @themiddleones11 Před 16 hodinami

    Honestly just keeping a few scrapped elements could have made this way better. The village being a place where people are hiding to keep their wishes!? That's one i didn't hear before, but that would fix major story problems

  • @Marialla.
    @Marialla. Před 16 hodinami

    In all the talk of how badly Ken is treated, I never hear anyone point out that Barbieland is basically a five-to-nine year old girl's fantasy. But definitely nobody would expect such a child to have any knowledge or interest in boys or romance or physical love beyond the parody that children know, which is that men are around (but not centered in a girl's world) and boys are kind of yucky, and girls have boyfriends but they don't really know why. It's not a value judgement against men, or a statement of where they belong. It's meant to be childish. Giving Kens a voice at all is a rebellion of us in the real world feeling it's unfair for men to not have representation. But somewhere in the five-to-nine year old boys fantasy land there certainly are no girls or female representation. It's all matchbox cars and G.I. Joes. That's why this movie is so silly. (Totally fun! But meant to be silly too.) Because no little boy OR girl would want to play with the Kens in Barbieland. They're just not the point.

  • @animiiboy8345
    @animiiboy8345 Před 16 hodinami

    Please look at a movie Wolfwalkers, I think it is an amazing movie for 2020

  • @helRAEzzzer
    @helRAEzzzer Před 16 hodinami

    I liked the music in Wish. The lyrics sucked, but not the music.

  • @piou77piou
    @piou77piou Před 16 hodinami

    The first time I saw the characters of Wish videos I litteraly reckon these weird Barbie movies.

  • @Marialla.
    @Marialla. Před 17 hodinami

    I thought I knew everything about these books, and you still gave me new insights! Thank you so much. It's the best analysis I've ever seen! I do hope for a Part Two, because there is still so much to unpack about deeper details, like Katniss' Appalachian accent, the Capitol fashions being exaggerated for the sake of American audiences, and Peeta's devotion to Katniss being so much a part of who he is, that he cannot leave her even after being hijacked, even when she is catatonic. And how disdainful Katniss feels not only at the Capitol for their shallowness, but also for other districts who name their children ridiculous things like "Glimmer". And the prep team who seem so self-centered that even deaths in the Arena become all about how THEY felt seeing it while getting their eyebrows waxed. And yet her unique ability to empathize even with these people she despises, realizing that had her own life been different she may have become just like them. And how much like her mother she was in her grief, though she never admitted to being anything like her mother in any way. And why the heck were we never given the names of Katniss' parents? (Which I think was because we're supposed to think of ourselves as Katniss, and to us our own parents have no names beyond "Mom" and "Dad".) And how children were sent to the Reaping in their best clothes "to look good for the Capitol", but really to look their best if that's their funeral.

  • @mara_kalat
    @mara_kalat Před 18 hodinami

    Something that I was so disappointed by in this adaptation coming from the musical was how they treated my favourite song, Apex Predator. This was originally a duet / back and forth between Cady and Janice, where Cady sees Regina as this imposing force that gets what she wants, and Janice is trying to talk her down because she got discarded by Regina in the past (as a friend). Like, I get that you wanted to take songs away from Cady (poor girl, why was she headlining a musical?!), but the dynamic here was so important and also good!

  • @lb3843
    @lb3843 Před 18 hodinami

    I loved the movie ❤I bought it on DVD including all of the other live actions. Ariel is my childhood character. Halle’s Ariel gave me all of the heartwarming emotions when I watched in theaters for the first time. ❤

  • @monochromedream-eatingbaku
    @monochromedream-eatingbaku Před 18 hodinami

    It isn't even impossible to create something that looks like a painting but is 3D, just look at Arcane. I actually had more examples in mind but i forgor. But yeah the most notable one is Arcane in my opinion. EDIT: Spiderverse. I was thinking of Spiderverse. Especially Gwen's world is designed to look like watercolours.

  • @EctoBabble
    @EctoBabble Před 19 hodinami

    I wish I found your channel a year ago because I'm been watching your videos all in a row - and I REALLY wish I saw this when all the hype was going on. This is so spot on.

  • @Marcuskwok-hn5yi
    @Marcuskwok-hn5yi Před 20 hodinami

    At least better than nevermind 2

  • @Helga-fe5xl
    @Helga-fe5xl Před 20 hodinami

    I thought wish was beautiful, the story was boring and predictable though

  • @user-sh8dy4py6k
    @user-sh8dy4py6k Před 21 hodinou

    The way they ruined an amazing and beatiful classic by actually adding a lot of nonesense and just incoherent stuff that cannot and wont happen in real life, for me the worst thing of all was ariels saving eric from ursula like when or how did she managed to be this badass taking control of the ship, a mermaid that knows nothing nor has experience at sailing while eric being born in a family of Mariners with innate skills for sailing, being one himself great at what he does of course, with actual knowledge about sailing, years of experience and most Likely one or too degrees, graduated with honors besides having all of his documents in check, owns a ship himself yet couldnt do the nothing at all not even the sailing part😅 so ariel (the mermaid) had to do it herself 😅😂 meanwhile eric be thinking all those years at sailing college didnt prepare him for this😂❤ ( part of your World reprise starts playing in the background) they get married, END🎉.❤

  • @wow1371
    @wow1371 Před 22 hodinami

    I watched it last night, I didn't feel too bothered with the animation style, it was whatever. But god it was so bad, the bad was the music...who the fuck wrote these songs and thought yeah, these are good. No one is going to ever sing these crap songs. Remember the disney sing along videos disney would make? Imagine they trying to make one with these songs. Holy shit

  • @pHseklanke
    @pHseklanke Před 23 hodinami

    I did not notice the rose...

  • @mikoevelynn111
    @mikoevelynn111 Před dnem

    18:26 tbf to the original movie, the wedding faded to a scene that could have been any time in the future. So we don't know for sure if they were "settling down right away" in the OG

  • @mikoevelynn111
    @mikoevelynn111 Před dnem

    16:10 I'd argue that animation eric still had interest in the sea BUT completely agree the live action went further with it and could have done more