Animating female characters is 'really, really difficult,' says Disney.

Animating female characters is “really, really difficult” because you have to “keep them pretty” while they go through “a range of emotions”?

Oh, come on.

Bu that’s what the head of animation for Disney’s Frozen said in an interview this week. Not great PR, particularly since Frozen features two female lead characters who bear a suspicious resemblance to one of Disney’s other recent princess characters, Rapunzel.The similar appearance of Rapunzel, Anna and Elsa only highlights the lack of racial diversity in Disney animation. Is it authentic for Western European fairytales to focus entirely on white characters? And if so, does historical authenticity even matter when you’re marketing the movie to a diverse, 21st-century audience of kids who live in a multiracial environment? Particularly if the movie includes decidedly un-historical details like talking animals or magic. [READ MORE]

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