Lion King DVD features: Letter from Dad

I wish I could find a video clip.

But you know there is this bit on The Lion King special edition features that gets me so deep it’s insane.

Quickly, I should note that The Lion King is my favourite film, it was so poignant in my life and many others’ too. I wouldn’t have started drawing if it wasn’t for the Lion King and it’s a film that just really touches me. I also think it’s one of the most aesthetically beautiful things I’ve ever seen!

Anyway there’s this bit on one of the many featurettes on the DVD where, I think, Linda Woolverton is telling a story. To me it just seems so sad, so powerful and incredible.

Basically not long after The Lion King’s release Disney (specifically the writers of TLK I would think), received a letter from a father of two sons. His wife had recently passed away and he didn’t know how to explain to his son what had happened. I believe he simply told them she had gone away but they kept asking when she was coming back.

He could not bring himself nor find the words to tell them she wasn’t.

The reason he wrote to the writers was to thank them. The Lion King helped him to tell his sons what had happened to their mother, that she had gone to another place but she would always be with them. That she was watching them from the stars and would always be there to guide them.

What makes it even more powerful is that Linda starts crying while telling it. I think she just feels so touched, that she was able to help this family through hard times.

FIlms are amazing, but this film takes the cake.

JEEZ AS IF THE FILM DOESN’T MAKE ME LOOSE MY SHIT ENOUGH AS IT IS!

I physically, literally (you don’t know how serious I am), ugly cry so hard just thinking about this story!

therothwoman:

that is fuckin animated rain what the hell

Ghibli? Beautiful.

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kingcheddarxvii:

evilplotting:

fetchanimation:

decided to take gothiebaby up on her challenge and make a powerpoint to help people differentiate between studios with 2D films (cuz it drives me mad when people say anastasia is disney, etc)

of course i have left anime out of the spectrum because i would be doing this damn thing forever, and a lot of great little indie 2D animations have also been omitted. this is purely mainstream, american animation.

sorry if i’ve made any spectacular omissions. please message me if i have and i’ll fix it. i know there are a few disney films missing but i couldn’t bear adding melody time, make mine music…etc. and robin hood is pretty much the aristocats anyway so yeah.

here is the OP i got the idea from

I just want to clarify that Touchstone is owned by Disney so yes, it’s a Disney film but it isn’t made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, therefore it isn’t part of the official Disney animated lineup. In case any of you were thinking “So wait, why does Disney sells the Who Framed Roger Rabbit merchandise?”, that’s why.

Pls and THANK

God THANK YOU!

It winds me up so much when people don’t do their research with these things.

Can you do a 3D one too? I’m so sick of people saying ‘Shrek’ is PIXAR!

rainbowbarnacle:

korrasexual:

mewsoleum:

msgryz:

lohkay:

This looks fucking amazing and I cannot wait.

THE COLORS IN THIS HOLY SHIT. This looks BEAUTIFUL I can’t want to see more of it.

i have a boner

In love with dem colours

SWOOOOOOON. O_O

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tamorajeancalhoun:

ARE PEOPLE SERIOUSLY PULLING THE “OH HERE WE GO AGAIN ATTRACTIVE BLONDE WHITE PROTAGONISTS IN A DISNEY MOVIE” CARD

FROZEN IS BASED ON THE SNOW QUEEN, A STORY WHICH ORIGINATES FROM SCANDINAVIA

NATIVE SCANDINAVIAN PEOPLE ARE WHITE AND BLONDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DO NOT DRAG YOUR SOCIAL JUSTICE BULLSHIT INTO MY DISNEY

‘Social Justic’ aside.

There is also the simple aesthetic perspective that Anna looks almost exactly like Rapunzel, it’s almost like they did not even attempt to design a heroine, just cookie cutted it. Not all white blonde people look the same so how come Anna and Rapunzel look like long lost twins.

If you don’t care for the emphasis on the demand for more POC protagonists then fine but there is at least the topic of some shamefully lazy art design. 

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missturdle:

loquaciousescapist:

this was EXACTLY the song i was hoping it would be. YES.

Also excuuuuuuse me,

while I jam (well chill) to this.

thesanityclause:

Sorry don’t mean to spam you every time I try something in AfterEffects but I put on some really basic expression changes. I didn’t like how just onion skinning it kind of looked, but doing like, one level of inbetweens might look all right.

Also tip for future, I can’t believe I thought it would be okay to put the eyebrows and eyes on the same layer.

Was this done using a ‘3D drawing effect’? I’ve seen this before and it’s such a cool look.

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