Here, I decided to do some further visual research into animated women characters. I mainly focuses on researching Disney characters because my essay mainly focused on Disney representation of women in their animated features.
Aries is a heavily recognisable prescense in society still to this day. She is iconic, with her long, red, flowing hair and her large eyes. Her waiste is something that is a main focus of the character. Her waiste is slender and extremely thin compared to the real life, female anatomy. In my essay, I mention how this is a negative aspiration for girls. Her hair is an iconic feature, that many girls aspire to have, and it seems a lot more healthy to aim to have the long flowing hair than the tiny waist.
Her facial features are iconic of Disney. The large eyes and large mouth are features that are used for almost all the main female Disney characters.
Belle from Disney's beauty and the beast has the same characteristics that are recognisable as Disney. However, she is depicted as intellectual, by being represented walking around her town with a book.
Cinderella is portrayed as a mistreated young woman, who apparently needs materialistic objects to be seen as beautiful. In the feature, a fairy godmother comes along and makes her attractive by giving her a sense of wealth through clothes and her mode of transport to the ball for her to fall inlove. She is a young woman who is overlooked until she changes the way she looks to find "true love". This is a key theme and structure to Disney's Animated Features.
From this brief visual research, I have come to the understanding that the typical body shape that is features in Disney' iconic animated films are of a slim variety, with large eyes and mouth. The size of the slender character's bodies link in with the social media research I did earlier, where the bodies were very slim. These features are something I will consider when designing my female character.
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