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Analysis Of Literary Techniques In Alice Blair's Animated Movies

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After working on Alice in Wonderland, Blair’s next two projects were short animated films that were released in 1952- Susie the Little Blue Coupe, and The Little House. Susie the Little Blue Coupe is an eight-minute short that was first featured on the 2003 Special Edition DVD of the movie The Love Bug which was theatrically released in December of 1968. Blair’s concept painting for this movie shows a nighttime city scene where the anthropomorphic car Susie is showcased in a display window. (Figure 6) Created in the similar style as her other works, this painting contains simple, clean lines with muted colors. The overall quality of the illustration is flat and simplified. The ideas in the animation of this film would eventually inspire the designs of the 2006 Disney/Pixar film, Cars. Once …show more content…

Her concept of Peter Pan and Captain Hook captures a moment in time in the middle of a battle. (Figure 8) Captain Hook lurches forward, sword in hand pointed in the direction of Peter Pan who hovers in the air with a dagger in hand as well. The illustration takes place on the top deck of a ship where we see part of a sail, ship railing, and a net next to a post. Captain Hook’s bright red coat stands out against the dark and murky green sky in the background. There are several dark parts of the illustration that represent shadowy places and thus, enhances the drama and mood of the painting. While those specific parts are dark, the characters are bright to establish them as the focal point. Like the other figures in her other concept illustrations for Disney movies, Peter Pan has no recognizable facial features. Instead of letting the viewer see the facial expressions on the figure out the emotion of a scene, Blair creates the emotion with other elements of the painting so that the viewer doesn’t even need to see the figures’ faces to determine the mood of the scene. This lets the viewer use their imagination to imagine a face, making the illustration more

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