Disney's Live Action version of "The Little Mermaid" is coming to a theater or streaming service near you. Are you super excited or like me, a little disappointed. I don't mind that this Ariel is a young black actress, but seeing photos of Sebastian the Crab, Flounder the fish and Scuttle the seagull made me almost gag.
Really WDA, are these the most appealling character designs you could come up with? With your animation studio of the most talented artists in the world, these supporting characters look like an AI program spit them out. Although, I bet an AI program would come up with a lot better choices. And how many designs did it take to narrow them down to these?
Do you think maybe Disney is just pulling our fin? Is this a brilliant Marketing ploy? Maybe Disney is showing these awful character designs to hype the film and then do a bait and switch where we see more appeal supporting characters when we see the film. Oh, what a relief that would be. But I have a funny feeling this is as good as it gets.
The original Little Mermaid was so great when it came out, because Disney animation was coming back, we loved the story and the characters all worked well together. I am not going to go see this new Little Mermaid, because like Disney's Aladdin, I already saw the good original and I don't need to see a Live Action version.
Would you like to see these characters walking along at Disneyland or Disney World?
And this brings me to a new 2D Mermaid film which you might not see until 2 years from now. Its a short 7 minute or so, animated film by Tina Nawrocki called "Syrenka the Warsaw Mermaid".
This is about Syrenka, the twin sister of the Little Mermaid, swam up to Warsaw, Poland and became a legend there. Below is my interview with Nawrocki and how she is planning to make the film.
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