As a guy I don't get worked up over things like sexist remarks because lets face it some of them are pretty actuate, they don't fit every situations but some of them are pretty funny. The remarks made by Lino Disalvo really don't affect me on a personal bases but it did an interesting conversation about what the difference between animating male and female characters.
For one thing women's emotions are harder to portray because as Disalvo so elegantly put it you have to make them emotional and still look pretty witch can come off as quite a challenge. The creative director of Brave got around this by making the charters mouth expand as far as they could in order to create more believable expressions. Lastly I found out that when Disney used the character Merida for marketing the creative director when straight to the CEO and proclaimed it sexist among other things.
Like I said I 'm a dude so sexist remarks don't bother me, but as an animator knowing that one gender is harder to animate than another is a more than a little intimidating. I don't know a lot about animating but from some of the demos I watched animating a female character was said to be more difficult than male characters especially in the face region. I only hope they were exaggerating. On a side note I do think its good that people stand up for what they believe in, if said person is offended by something or thinks its difficult they should say so and these people did, I can respect that.
my only question would be "Is it really that difficult to animate female characters."
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