From a child's story to animation films

An exhaustive exploration of the meaning and trascendence of children's novels brings us a series of conclusions. I dedicate this space to this exploration.


First, I stop at one of THE children's novels: Alice in Wonderland.

- Universal plots in Alice in Wonderland.

This way I explain the trascendence of the novel, which I use as the main example of a children's story, so frequently adapted for the screen.

Disney's version is the best known of all the cinema adaptations. However, it's not the best of Disney's films. So, to find examples of interest in some of Disney's classics, I review Beaty and the Beast and Jungle Book.

- A brief critical view of Beauty and the Beast.

- Aesthetic comentary on Jungle Book (available only in Spanish).

I concentrate on these two examples, which come from different Disney periods to construct my thesis. For more references it is interesting to study the development of feminity and feminism throughout the history of "Disney princesses" or cultural aspects for which Pocahontas and Aladdin provide good examples.

Going back to Alice in Wonderland, its transcendence inspires creators in various fields of the arts, in music for example. But the influence of children's stories goes beyond art reaching other subjetcs like politics and sociology.


- Transcripction of the radio musical program: Homage to Alice in Wonderland.

- The children's story as a satirical resource.

These examples show the psychological depth of some main characters in children's stories, novels and films. However, recently mostly CG animation films are made (Pixar, Dreamworks). In these films characters are much more simple and canonical. Probably this is due to the limitation of CG rigs, still in a research phase, which only allows animators to create a type of character that aesthetically looks like "a dumb doll" which is crutial to its psychological depth.

lunes, 21 de abril de 2008

The child story as a satiric resource

Children's stories are the origin of many canonic characters, popular stories serve as easy-to-understand references for all inhabitants of the western world.

In this example Red Ridding Hood is presented as the innocent as opposed to the wolf and its false smile hidden under her granny's hat. An image of a Spanish polititian (Ruiz Gallardon) in 2007, when he presented himself as the moderate version of the right wing party:

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