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it’s not Ugly™, its just like

🤔🤔🤔 hm

i bet they didnt kno how to/didnt want to devote effort to defining her curls while having them be a dark color

I just don’t understand how a studio that can dedicate so much time and money to the hair of Merida and Moana(and violet if we include Pixar) but trip up when making Black hair.

It’s cute and I like the design but she looks like a generic black character and with no context people would not guess she’s Tiana from PATF

She’s adorable. But she’s not tiana and honest to god that is such a shame because tiana is so beloved and they really could have just put forth a little effort

Yeah even a bit of care and attention. It just feels generic and it has nothing to do with going from 2D to 3D as the other princesses(to varying degrees of success) captures their original designs well

Those few curls on her 2D version have more life in them than all of that mess on the right. And why isn’t her hair BLACK???????? First her skin now her hair they stay screwing her over!!!!

Disney/Pixar: We invented a whole new program to animate Merida’s hair, and another new program for Moana’s hair, for accuracy and detail.
Black fans & fans who care about Black fans: Have you put literally any effort at all into making Black hair?
Disney/Pixar: Oh no, all of a sudden animation is way too hard and hair is so difficult there was nothing we could do to make Tiana look like an actual Black woman or even just look like her 2D version
¯_(ツ)_/¯

Really confused because in the other trailer, she looks like this:

How does THIS design (not perfect! but a lot better) go to the other one, where her skin is lighter and nose is smaller and her hair literally changes colors to be lighter too?? Wtf.

RIGHT.

That’s what makes it so jarring. Like even if this turns out to be a promotional psuedo-screenshot, or something closer to conceptual art, it’s still concerning that they whitewashed her like that.

Especially because it’s the image they’re using to hype up the #relatable “princesses can be modern and down to earth and wear what they want just like you uwu” angle.

Role models for young girls have long since been set on pedestals and seemed completely unrealistic — and the film is trying to address that.

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Co-director Rich Moore said that the original versions of the princesses “felt like they were frozen in another time that made it hard for me to kind of identify with or understand them.” So putting them in the updated, casual scene added “a facet to them that makes them feel like real people.” Flannels and letter jackets and poison apple-branded graphic T-shirts — yeah, that’s about as real as it gets.

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And even though they’re animated, sticking to a more grounded representation of the human body can only make the fashion choices a more salient statement on the relatability of the princesses.

(they’re talking about what sarah silverman said about her character having a “human” waist and wearing a hoodie.)

But yeah.

“We wanted to make Tiana relatable so we completely retooled her design to the point where she’s unrecognizable! :D”

The designs for a lot of the princesses of color turned out very… Not Great.

it’s all so 😒😒😒

I had to put your very own words on here cause