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[malymin]

"Problem Child" by Eli Cugini

Essay on the political subtext of recent Pixar films.

Building a new Flash by Bill

What it says on the tin - a Newsground oldie working on developing a successor to Flash.

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I've been working on a big post. Nothing "serious" - just indulging the way my media-related interests and my special interests in color-related topics intersect to form a fascination with color motifs in character design and fiction. The problem lies in gathering images and figuring out how to best display them.

I'm trying to crop this image with just css so that just the four color-framed characters are visible.

Comments

[lb_lee]

We kinda fell off the Pixar wagon around the time of Inside Out, and that essay you linked was interesting... and also sad. The only movie we have with a child protagonist these days is Return to Oz, which is all about a young girl escaping a mental institution her Aunt Em sent her to... and it ends with her aunt saying that she was wrong to do that, never doing it again, and Dorothy's Oz world being reaffirmed as true and real. And she gets to have scary adventures and overthrow a villainous princess AND king! (Evil princesses are pretty rare, aren't they...)

Then again, I guess that movie was considered "too creepy and weird" even then, back in the eighties...

[malymin]

I feel like it's not even remotely uncommon for art that appeals strongly to children to be "too creepy and weird" in the eyes of adults, or otherwise be perceived as "not appropriate" for children. One of the small tragedies that children depend on adults to make and publish books, movies, etc for them, and depend on adults allowing them to have access to that art. Children lack both the socioeconomic means and developmental maturity (particularly when it comes to project management, more than the quality or lack thereoff of the art itself - god knows a lot of art made for children by adults isn't particularly good either!) to make and distribute high-ambition artwork for themselves.

In a sense, the internet has acted as the main medium for art "by and for children" to proliferate past individual schoolyards... as much as that art gets bullied by adults, or denied opportunities to exist as spaces close or professionalize. Roblox is an exploitative company, but as medium in which games "by and for children" are being made, I see echoes of (less monetized) online communities that existed a decade and a half ago.

(Evil princesses are pretty uncommon as villians, aren't they? Something to be analyzed about how "evil queens" are a more common archetype than "evil princesses", to be sure.)