Saturday, 29 December 2012

Evolution of an other character.






Looking at the evolution of a character like Micky Mouse you can see in proposhion size and character    he has not changed much at all, i think this is because Micky mouse and his popularity has make him more of a fashion accessory and a mascot rather than a character who can develop. 

with age all Micky Mouse has gained is gloves at the start to help his black and white animation and latter,more detail in his drawings with shading. Witch is natural as our TVs and animation programs advance in quality also. 

The character is now stale and uninteresting. and as this is has came on hard times as Disney try to change there mouses aperince the audience rejects its change. For example, in 1955 Disney made a TV advertisement with Micky Mouse in a modern style animation. 
The cartoon was taken off the air not to long after its relece because fans of Disney claimed its style to be to communistic.


Apart from changing Micky Mouses style thy have also tryed to improve his personality. Thet have done this mostly throw there games rather and television as this is a new market. 
this has been been mixed waters as not every one enjoys this new personality of Micky mouse. 

It is something that i personally don't believe can develop much further because of the constrained of fans and there character, What people like and what people are use to is very diffident and difficult to deal with. 


Friday, 28 December 2012

Evolution of a character.




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g3
g3.5
g4

Looking at the evolution of a series has helped to see how it has improved and changed due to changes in animation programs and style development.

Even just looking at the style from the first series of my little pony to the present day. there is a clear change from the hand drawn to digital style. 

And the popularity of the more resent series is huge. there are dedicated conventions to it all other the world. while the previous generation (G3.5) is largely disliked.

But was this because of there overly disproportional style and overly cuteness story line? 

Even tho the show was designed for little girls, its market has boomed with people of all ages enjoying the show even fully grown men, with its change in story characters and visual style. 

Looking at the characters they are sickly sweet and unrealistic compared to real people. in voice moment and character. This is fine for a little girls show as this is what they stereotypical look for in a show. while G4 has more repeatable characters and realistic personality's. Its not just, Pink, cute, handbag, shopping and cuddles. 



It still follows stereo types as the main 6 charictors you have, a kind shy one, the brainy school kid, the fashion girl, sporty tom boy, excited energetic party anime and a country girl. with more characters stereo types there is more to relate to.

It could also be said that the maturity of children is increasing and because of this the show has also.