Illustrator Reimagines Disney Characters With Realistic Body Types

I hardly saw any changes in Mulan. Figures.

For the most part all they did was give them double chins, fatter faces, and fatter bodies...Yes the original designs of some of these characters are unrealistic but the "Realistic Makeover" went further past Realistic and straight to chubby / chunky. Almost as if skinny people or other body types just don't exist? Sorry I'm just a bit tired of people simply calling these makeovers "Realistic" but only presenting chunkier frames instead of Realistic varieties.

As an artist, myself, I can tell you that this whole thing was for "show" and not actually reimagining these princesses with 'realistic' bodies. Firstly, Disney already did that. They have realistic proportions to the animated style. Secondly, Elsa, Cinderella and Rapunzel were wearing corsets so the belly roles wouldn't have been visible. Thirdly, you just made Ariel, Meg and Eric chunky to virtue signal. You didn't "reimagine" anything. You took someone's work (that the artists spent hours on and likely didn't get paid their worth), and f'ed it up to make yourself look like a good person. Go do something original before you call yourself an artist.

For someone attempting to include "all body types," You sure did a great job of eliminating every single slimmer body type. Making all the characters larger doesn't make it more inclusive than making all the characters slim.

So more realistic means fatter.

3 words: Gross body shaming. 😔

More like a before babies after babies lol.

They weren't even trying to vary body types, and just made them closer to plus size. You focused on only that body type and didn't even get it through your brain that slim people do exist. And the reason why most princesses had slimmer waists is because of the tight clothes and corsets.

The fact that some of those princesses didn't even need a realistic body. Like Rapunzel was a more normal body shape than the older disney movies but, then again she was wearing a corset 🤷‍♀️

"Body diversity is the key ingredient to all successful fairy tales"? Really? They are fairy tales. There's a reason they don't make whimsical children's movies about Bertha the girthy postal worker.

Just to play devils advocate, these Disney princesses are old, very old, on the technical and animation front we have some things to consider. Early animation techniques required clear, simple shapes that could be consistently and easily animated by hand. The slender waists made it easier for animators to create fluid movements and maintain consistency across thousands of frames. Also, nowadays, thicker framed people are more common as most of America is considered obese, childhood obesity in particular is on the rise as never seen before. Only about 1.6% of the adults in the US are thin framed, so yea, this reimagining is actually a more accurate representation of what most kids will see in todays population. The princesses look cool, don't know why everybody seems to be so negative in comments, why everyone so angry 😂
Thanks to the artist who made these, they are very interesting. I have observed people who have a bit more meat on the bones tend to be less comfortable in their bodies (especially being bombarded with advertisements of women primarily being very thin supermodels most movie stars, etc...) We should all aim to support each other on our journeys despite personal experiences and especially if we have the same experiences. 🙏🕊️💜

Welcome to Chubby world

I think it's more like 'fatter' than realistic.

so what I'm learning is that we're all too lazy to work out so instead we're reanimating pretty people to make ourselves feel better.... yeah that's great

I would have liked to see more variety, different body shapes; hourglass, pear, apple, inverted pear, where they are big on top and smaller towards the bottom, etc.

There are exactly 5 images that are "plus sized"

Cinderella 2.
Ariel 2
Jasmine 4
Eric.
Meg.

The rest is just giving proper space into the body to have proper developed muscles, bones, and organs.

So thin/very thin people are not realistic?
Then I guess this past week I've seen at least 5 fake women, with their super small, tight waists and all...
FAKE!!!!!!!!!

I see maybe four pictures that would be considered "realistic body sizes". Cinderella was fine as is, since it's meant to show how miss treated and malnourished she was, due to her step family. Mulan, it made sense to make her more muscular, she's a warrior. Everyone in the Disney world (aside from Cinderella) would be a more normal body shape with a range from 5 - 15 more pounds added. Of course this is a range depending on background, and way of life. Of course some of the members could be much heavier than this as well. For example, Jasmine lived in the castle her whole life, it's not like there is exercise equipment around, she could have definitely been heavier life her father. This is also true for Rapunzel. Realistically, there should be body shapes for the princess ranging from the original photo of Cinderella all the way up to Ursula from the little mermaid.

My question is, why are people bothered by cartoons? Be how you wan, but leave the movies and kids cartoons alone good grief. Like another comment said... WHO CARES!!

You made them all plus sizes. A little meat in the bones but Meg in Hercules was ridiculous

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Millennial women are trash, no wonder Gen Z women are reversing this obesity trend.