Disney Apparently Has A “Really, Really Difficult” Time Animating Female Characters’ Emotions

Apparently animating female characters that look different is hard?

Disney's newest musical Frozen comes out in November. It stars Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel as the film's only lead female characters.

Disney's newest musical Frozen comes out in November. It stars Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel as the film's only lead female characters.

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Historically speaking, animating female characters are really, really difficult, 'cause they have to go through these range of emotions, but they're very, very — you have to keep them pretty and they're very sensitive to — you can get them off a model very quickly. So, having a film with two hero female characters was really tough, and having them both in the scene and look very different if they're echoing the same expression; that Elsa looking angry looks different from Anna (Kristen Bell) being angry.

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