An Artist Redesigns Disney Characters Giving Them Realistic Bodies

Why was this reposted?
I have nothing against the articles contents but.

Ok no... Because those bodies that are reimagined are fully grown women's bodies. Most of those characters are still under 18.

Oh ok 👌

I'm all for Disney Characters needing to be more realistic but giving making them look unhealthy for under 18 year olds might not be the best move.

Drawing characters a bit more thick doesn't make them realistic. You need more than meaningless kilos here and there. Take character one by one analyzing their habits and daily routines. For example Cinderella all days was doing chores - she could be be thin but she definitely must have been shrinking from looking mostly down. The same with Belle: girl who reads most of the time her spine can't be this straight, she could have glasses (just maybe). Aurora - this girl didn't eat for 100 years. She should be thin as humanly possible.

Lady needs to get out more. If she refuses to workout maybe sit outside a gym and realize the original bodies are real you just have to put in the work to for them... don't sit around drawing pictures complaining that cartoons look better then you...

This is cartoon, making everybody look realistic isn't the point. Barbie spent half a century being absolutely ridiculously shaped and generations of girls grew up just fine. Luckily there is Asian anime where they still draw what they like. Everybody there has ridiculous proportions, legs way to long, shoulders way too wide etc. Maybe, just maybe are people there better at recognizing real world from fantasy?

These are all crazy. And yes, a lot of them actually look morbidly obese. I'm chunky, and I can say this stuff. Disney characters have never been proportionate. Their heads are almost as wide as their shoulders. They're almost like anime characters, and that's what we like about them. Triton's waistline is thin too, and his abs and biceps are like Hercules.

I'm surprised I'm not the only thinking that they're not even close to realistic. The art is good, but it's not realistic at all.

Y'all just make me sad. Just let people do what they're gonna do, it's really not that deep.

This is just ridiculous they're eating healthier food being active nearly every day and, ITS A FAIRY TAIL NOT REAL LIFE!

The Thickening.

They look too chunky and are overwait they are supposed to be skinny they do not look more realistic at all they look less realistic they were meant to look like the way they looked before they were made chunky they look out of proportion

Why did they make their waistlines smaller before they made them chubby? Look closer and you can see they stretched their waists.

That’s not an artist😄…let’s hope he try another things in his life🙂

Right but I've seen a lot of people with that small of a waiste line the characters were made unquily in their own way there is no reason too change because they are not real humans and are just fictional characters that don't need to look realistic! You guys need to understand that this was a bad idea even I can do much better redesigns who did u hire a 5 year old for the job*

an artist did that? or a 10yr old with a crayon?

The "artist" clearly doesn't understand what a corset is or what it does 🤦🏻

Fictional characters don't have to be realistic, but young children are sensitive to suggestion, and the suggestions of Disney princesses being tiny and thin CAN be very damaging. I think it IS exaggerated in this article. And I think recent characters like Moana and Mirabel and mei mei, are healthier examples of a girl's body.

As true as it is that they were made to be unrealistic even with corsets there is still some thickness, they need to at least make them a bit skinnier with the ones in the corset, without the corset it would make more sense for some of the art pieces to be thicker, most ppl in these comments on the pictures are just set off by thicker bodies and call everything they see that isn't a barbie doll skinniness 'obese' its interesting to see how they tried though. A few edits then it should be alright. Most are also still children therefore they would also be skinnier still, the dresses would also need heavy alterations because the way they are designed by default is to fit a unrealistic hourglass/worm like body not a thicker or realistic one, there's a good bit that needs editing if you choose to make them realistic, i'd recommend a massive work critique and redraw, keep in mind ages.

Uuuhhhhmmmmm no. Just leave them thin and beautiful. Enough of pushing getting overweight is cool!! Because it's not!! Quit lying to yourself and others!

"Artist redesigns characters that were perfectly fine to begin with, and makes them heavier"
Why?

I think the idea is refreshing - BUT these princesses don't all need to go from too skinny to plus-size lol. They're not all American girls circa 2024, Cinderella is likely not even getting fed like she should - Tianna either. I've neve seen a thick French girl they walk everywhere over there, be realistic if you're gonna be realistic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You pretty much made them look a little chubby. Rapunzel looks good though

Fattening them up is disingenuous. Kate Middleton, Diana Spencer and most of the royals would be appalled. Camilla has only fluffed out in her later years, but she was skinny too, when she was younger. Altering body image is unrealistic. We are what we are. There is nothing wrong with being skinny.

Literally all you did was add weight to each of them.
You didn't make any of them more realistic, just a little chubby.

It's funny how people think they know what a "realistic" body looks like. They don't realize that before the 1980s most women had the body style of the original versions. Everyone today looks different than that because of the fact people today have either no self control when it comes to eating or because our bodies can't metabolize the chemicals in our foods today. That said nobody wanted to see what they would look like if they ate McDonald's every day. Leave the classics alone make your own characters don't change the ones we love.

Also nothing wrong with showing younger girls that there is no shame in not being skinny. Not all of us are built the same and that shouldn't be a bad thing. I think it's amazing

So apparently, in today's world, the norm is that EVERYBODY should look a little on the chubby side?

I think that the Disney princesses could be better to show the more realistic body, but I have seen many people with many different body types. But it is also big to remember that this is a made up story and the body is also made up and not real

Basically Americanized em all lol

Why would you make them.look.lime that???? People have no lives

If you, as an adult look at a caricature and perceive it as a realistic rendering you should probably get an eye exam, a CT scan and see a phycologist. A child however may not have the emotional intelligence to differentiate. That is the point.

You really just fattened all of them up. U do realise that them looking slim is actually a nod to health for the children watching them cuz all these princesses were physically active people so there is no way those edits are realistic. Also most children really don't care

I don't think it's fair to call these realistic. Just call them plus-sized or thick. Maybe Disney waists are too small, and can have some weight added...but I know loads of fit, healthy women with much smaller waists than these "realistic" princesses. You don't have to be plus-sized to be realistic.

honestly, if we were being historically accurate, a lot of them would be wearing stays or corsets, which would shape/flatten their body and give the illusion of a smaller waist. i feel like jasmine’s “realistic makeover” makes the most sense to alter a little. but again, their literal cartoon character/, why does everyone feel the need to change them at all.

I grew up watching Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. I do believe their figures made me think that was ideal. They are drawing them far too skinny in these films. Very few people even with healthy diet and exercise can look like these drawings. I am 5’ 1’’ and would have to starve myself to look like them.

Some are good some are eh... Chubby. Realistic isn't = chubby. Still.i liked some of em

I have nothing against thick princesses but realistic doesn't mean chubby. Yeah I agree for some of these the waist size could be more reasonable like Jasmine and Megara. But most of the princesses they're likely wearing corsets which would stop them from having a thicker waist size so it's not unreasonable. However, the one that annoyed me the most was giving Mulan more manly dimensions. Her whole thing was that she was a dainty average woman of that era that made her way in war. She's not going to be built like a body builder or someone prepared for war because she was raised to be married. Mulan was always my favorite Disney animated movie so messing with it is really off putting.

These aren’t even realistic these r just over weight for the most part

DOES EVERYONE HATE FUN? THEY ALL LOOKED ANOREXIC BEFORE LEAVE THE ARTIST ALONE AND JUST APPRECIATE THE ART PLEASE

Yes, many -- if not most -- female characters in cartoons and anime are drawn with unrealistic proportions. Not exaggerating them would be remarkable but I would applaud the effort if there was any real artistry involved. All the artist did was thicken the waistlines and widen the bust on some of them. There's no extra definition of the curves and the few changes to the faces are frankly awful. They didn't do most of these princesses any favors. If you're going to make them full figured, do it right and respect the source material. An AI would have done a better job giving them life like figures.

These are fantasy films. Why can't we enjoy movies for the fun and escapism they provide. Why must we tare everything down with reality.

This isn’t more realistic it’s just fatter. Let’s wake up and admit our country has an issue with obesity and we need to address it. Stop validating unhealthy lifestyles to patronize the masses. Stop watching movies and go for a walk

None of these characters were created in the twenty first century and it's common fact that the older you go back in time, the thinner the women are because no one was too busy faking inclusivity and pro obesity