If she goes with a spell, why stop at blinding him? And why make it temporary? The point in the original story was that he was somewhere deemed off limits by the witch, so he paid the price. It's amazing he didn't break his neck when he fell, really. ...I'm tempted to go pull out the story again.
Hmm...yellow? Pale, yes, but the skin tones in Pixar never looked yellow to me. (It makes me wonder about the television you watched the movies on.) Why they would choose pale skin colors is obvious since pale skin shows expression much more. It's a problem with television in general that darker skin colors are harder to see on film. If you've ever seen a movie with a black actor in a night scene, the actor is very hard to see compared to a white actor in the same scene. HTTYD definitely wins for complexity in skin tone, since it gave the characters freckles and the like. Actually, Hiccup's face always looked dirty to me because of this... XP I think skin tones just pose a problem in computer animation anyway. I can't imagine it being very easy to replicate.
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Date: 2010-06-14 03:00 pm (UTC)Hmm...yellow? Pale, yes, but the skin tones in Pixar never looked yellow to me. (It makes me wonder about the television you watched the movies on.) Why they would choose pale skin colors is obvious since pale skin shows expression much more. It's a problem with television in general that darker skin colors are harder to see on film. If you've ever seen a movie with a black actor in a night scene, the actor is very hard to see compared to a white actor in the same scene. HTTYD definitely wins for complexity in skin tone, since it gave the characters freckles and the like. Actually, Hiccup's face always looked dirty to me because of this... XP I think skin tones just pose a problem in computer animation anyway. I can't imagine it being very easy to replicate.