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Rewatch it! Recommend it to your friends! Talk about it on social media! Discuss theories and head canons! Make/engage with fanart and fan edits and fanfiction! Cosplay the characters!

The loss of Originality because of Remakes and the state of animation

I won’t stop talking about the not usability of remakes, their gain for easy money and the fucking manipulative nostalgia trap, not until every cinema were remakes are shown are empty. Because my god this needs to stop now that also DreamWorks joins disney and other studios in this lazy trend. As @ryupioupiou mentioned to me, the animation industry is in crisis as they said on the Annecy film festival. They play it safe and pretend nothing is on stake, but how long can they keep their Fassade up? I can’t stand the fact that the studios are pushing the agenda and the belief that animated movies are just for kids forward with these remakes no one needs. Honestly the studios, DreamWorks sadly now included, should be ashamed of themselves at disrespecting the art of animation and all the many hard working animators behind it by calling them just simple kids movies before butchering them into ugly live action remakes. And the recent remake of httyd just pulled the last straw for me, not only because it’s my favorite trilogy and franchise, but also of how revolutionary it was for the animation industry and then they make this ugly ass remake out of it just for moneys sake. This is not for what httyd, the lion king, kung fu panda, spider verse and so on stand for. They stand for that animation is for everyone and that our picture of seeing animated movies just for kids has not aged well. It’s outdated. We can stop this view if we don’t let ourselves capture by the studios nostalgia traps and actually supporting original work and art. You know the feeling when you first saw httyd, this cant be recreated with a copy and paste of the same movie but in remake style, this feeling can truly be reinforced if you watch an original piece of art that is called animation. Wild Robot gave me this feeling for example.

(I‘m sorry Mason and Nico, I‘m sure you are great actors and can do better under better direction but I have to this for animations sake).

Animation Studios:

Me: Guys I'm more balding

I’m not really someone who wants to weigh in on what’s been going on with animation, but after the miracle of streaming came to be and Hollywood executives saw what they could do with their franchises and businesses, I realized I couldn’t remain silent any longer. I’ve had it with so many greedy executive producers acquiring film and animation studios that were never theirs to begin with, and shutting down various animation studios for the sake of corporate greed, as well as the cancellation of various projects for stupid bills to “keep their companies afloat”! Enough is enough! They are not only trying to steal our childhoods, but our futures as well as the futures of many children who aspire to become animators(even if the shows they watch are brainrot lol).

As you probably know already, the Animation Guild is holding a “Stand with animation” rally today in Burbank, and I thought to myself why not hold my own rally at my home, although being a thousand miles from where I’m from. So, I did hold my own protest but it was very hot outside so I had to come back inside but while the WGA and IATSE continue to defend for their professions and futures, I thought it would be wise to post some of the posters that I’ve made throughout 2024. I was originally wanting to protest on my own on March, I thought today was the right time to do it.