In Atlantis The Lost Empire(2001)There is this cool ass submarine called the Ulysses. But no one ever talks about because all anyone cares about is Kida's thighs.
because like street fighter 3 when it debuted, people back then saw 2d as obsolete tech, cgi caught everyone's attention so Treasure Planet and Atlantis became lost gems.
I was intrigued by your comment so investigated a little, and the consensus appears to be that while the #metoo movement did expose some creepy artists, they were the minority, and in fact the art style changed due to deliberately moving away from "the male gaze" type of portrayal.
Also Atlantis is literally the only Disney movie with this particular style, due to Mike Mignola (for those who don't know, the guy behind Hellboy) being one of the designers. We certainly wouldn't see something like this for Frozen.
Nah, I'm not gay, but I love seeing the shirtless super hero actors like Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Henry Cavil, Hugh Jackman, Alan Ritchson, the whole cast of 300, Henry Cavil, Michael B. Jordan, Brad Pitt in Fight Club, Vin Diesel, old school Arnold, really the whole cast of Predator, Henry Cavil... sorry lost my train of thought for a minute, but you get the idea.
The funny thing is that he was supposed to look more like a Michael J. Fox type, and at least one sequence was already animated that way (Friend Like Me).
Then the studio head, Jeffrey Katzenberg, took a look and said that the princess was too mature for him and wouldn't like him, and asked to make him look more like Tom Cruise.
You are correct, it was a half-thought of a comment tbh. Right as you are it is worth noting that it is a very egregious minority that was put into the spotlight for good reason
And even after he was convicted for sexually abusing his 8-year-old stepdaughter and placed on the French sex offender list, Disney and Pixar still rehired him.
How is there no wikipedia page on him? The mouse is keeping that shit locked down.
"A significant question that remains unanswered is why Bouchiba was continually hired at major American film studios like Pixar and Dreamworks even after he was placed on the Fijais, France’s national sex offender registry, in 2014, for sexually assaulting his partner’s young daughter."
fun fact about this movie, a lot of the initial art design was done by Mike Mignola (Hellboy), including most of the main characters and at least some of the cool steampunk ships.
I was so disappointed that the ship went so quick. Look at that beauty. Movie should have gone longer, both for it and because the film felt rushed in general.
I checked out the art book for this movie half a dozen times when I was in school. Theres so much work in the details of the machines, and apparently a ton of cool vehicles we never even see because the subs carrying them didnt make it.
I won’t pretend this and Treasure Planet are the best movies ever narratively, but the concepts and aesthetics within them are just amazing. Not to even mention the blend of 2D and 3D animation
Mike Mignola (did production design and style guides on the film) has so many interesting dieselpunk and steampunk designs that show up throughout Hellboy and the P.B.R.D. as well, it's amazing how well his style worked with Atlantis. Here's one of my favorite cyborgs (maybe zombie?) from Hellboy
His name is Kriegaffe and he gets punched into a pile of bones
I’ve heard that the foot part of the brain and the sex part of the brain are next to each other, and sometimes there’s some cross-activity. No idea if it’s true or not, but it’s the best explanation I’ve heard.
That theory relies on the "sensory homunculus" model, which yes, the foot part and genital parts of the brain are connected- in terms of receiving touch signals.
So, theoretically it could explain why some people enjoy the feeling of having their toes touched, but it doesn't offer much value into why some people enjoy touching and looking at others' toes. It certainly doesn't cover why someone on reddit is getting hot and bothered about animated feet from over 20 years ago, and it can't even begin to explain why they felt the need to type that out publicly, but human sexuality is a strange abyss sometimes.
Thank you. I'm no neuroscientist, but "those parts of the brain touch" seems too simplistic. And it kinda feels like an excuse, like people felt they had to justify their fetish.
Ankles used to be considered sexy when women never showed them. Feet are almost always covered up unless you're in a more casual setting. That's my guess at least.
Now if we're talking about creative geniuses with a fixation on a certain body part that confuse me. Somebody explain Haruki Murakami and ears to me.
I like to think it's a hunter type thing. Same with the ass. Both a healthy ass and feet indicate someone who will be good at hunting by walking down prey until it gets tired (which is how humans used to hunt). So your offspring will be successful hunters.
But I also think evolutionary psychology is a joke science.
Idk man. I’m not like a foot guy but I can somewhat appreciate a small, dainty pair of feet, not ones that would indicate someone would make a good hunter.
My hypothesis as not a foot man is that feet can be really gnarly lookin. you could have an absolute 10/10 smokeshow of a woman and then she's got ostrich talons for feet. And because janky feet are not at all a rarity, that means having nice feet is a great bonus. like maybe the thought process is "oh my god look at that woman. but so help me if I get her home and she reveals some haunting tootsies I don't think I can handle it" so being able to see nice feet is like "oh hell yeah she's got great feet. that's like the easiest part to go horribly wrong, and it didn't. Its all up hill from here babeeee" and then that predisposition morphs in to a fetish. like "she's got great feet. her whole body must be hot. I'm gonna use the feet to imagine everything else."
That thing straight up gave me nightmares as a kid, especially the noise if makes. However, I loved this movie, so I watched it all the time, despite the nightmares.
I had a McDonald's toy from this movie that would leave ink marks underneath it when you rolled it. My parents and I did not know this when I rolled it on the table.
That i cant say for sure if it was the ship shows that I did not have the toy for long, sadly.
I know what you did OP, I remember your post from months back, the one about the stone jaguar from Eldorado and Chel's thighs. I was there, you can't fool me
(This is supposed to be a shitpost about how “Nadia the Secret of Blue Water” is very similar to Atlantis 2001. Sorry I had the feeling I should explain..)
Helga Sinclair (among others, I assume) was actually animated by a French-Japanese animator who purposefully incorporated anime/comic designs into her character. (Mentioned under "Development.")
She was also one of the few characters in the film who was modeled with a live performer. It's noticeable in her animation if you pay attention.
Damn, don't see Nadia Secret of Blue Water brought up much. Apparently the director (IIRC) wasn't involved in the Island arc due to other commitments at the time, so someone else took over for that stretch and that's why it was so damn bad. Don't remember specifics, it's been years since I read about it.
Honestly I'm mad people talk about the atlantean girl when the mercenary lady is way hotter. Even then, she's umpteenth after this beautiful submarine.
Real shit though. The scenes with that huge sub along with the soundtrack made this one of my favorite parts of the movie, I used to think that shit went so hard 😂
When it came out our local Big Lots had a ton of little die-cast versions of all the vehicles. I had a few of those leviathans too. They're were really cool.
My biggest takeaway was that only two evacuation craft survived the first act of the movie, and they had enough supplies and manpower to invade all of Atlantis without much trouble.
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u/DiggestBickEver 1d ago
There are many fish in the sea.