acquaintedwithrask:

strampunkgear:

foreverdisneynerd:

For Atlantis, Disney needed a new language for the Atlantean people. To do this, Disney hired Mark Okrand, the man who also created the famous Klingon and Vulcan for the Star Trek series. In the Atlantean language, Mark Okrand’s main source for it’s roots and stems of its words are Proto-Indo-European,but as Okrand also described it as being the “tower of babel” or “root dialect” for all languages in the world, he also used ancient Chinese, Latin, Greek, Biblical Hebrew, along with many other ancient languages or their reconstructions. As such, you can actually learn to write and speak the language!

This film is so underrated it hurts.

ah this explains how they understood french and english so well almost instantly… better than the magical wind in Pocahontas that’s for sure

Your grandad had a saying: “Our lives are remembered by the gifts we leave our children.” This journal is his gift to you, Milo. Atlantis is waiting.

Walt Disney Pictures intros and outros

Day 25: A Movie You Think Is Under Appreciated – Atlantis: The Lost Empire

scjacka:

Speaking of amazing fictional ladies

tmpls:

zevadavid:

frrostbytte:

dapenguinninja:

2014 in a nutshell

Bonus points for it being a white guy and a person of color.

Double bonus points for it being a man and a women

Triple points for it being an empirical invader villain.

braceandaim:

murdercide626:

randomhatthief:

noxaldia:

catbountry:

thewillowisp:

roguesquirrel:

If Hotel Transylvania didn’t come out, this would have been the #1 animated film walkcycle in 2012

Jesus King Candy, HOW DO YOU EVEN DO THAT?!

His feet are just twirling on his ankles it’s fucking magical.

Okay I don’t normally do this but let me just say something about this animation and the sheer amount of detail they put into this walk-cycle in correlation to the character themselves. The way he walks in this first real ‘introduction’ to the character; notice how his legs go straight out to the sides of him while he twirls his feet- like the wheels of the cars he has been programmed to drive. Not only that, but the lull in his walk is exactly like spinning your tires while breaking (or revving one’s engine), which happens at the start of every cart-racing game. Also, his hand literally changes gears and ‘locks’ before his shooing hand gesture, before returning to the unseen gear-shift. Even in the second shot close-up, he stops in perfect time of 3, the same as the ‘ready, set, go!’ of racing games.

He is literally embodying both his car and racing games in general. His animation team made him into the true ‘king’ of cart-racing.

HOLYFUCKINGSHIT

Holy Hera! I didn’t even consider that! 😯

That just makes him that much more awesome! 😀

And kudos to those awesome Disney animators for always finding ways to add nice little touches to the characters in their films. 🙂

I just sincerely love this post

lifeanim8ed:

Atlantis: The Lost Empire 

Visual Development by Mike Mignola

A beautiful piece

mauridianhallow:

I feel like Susan was the only one asking the real fucking questions

vaspider:

thingsamylikes:

browneyedtrickster:

Favourite Audrey Ramirez Quotes

Audrey doesn’t get NEARLY enough love. It’s Edwardian period, yet she’s a genius Hispanic engineer who wears overalls, has adorably little meaty arms, doesn’t take any crap from boys, runs a mechanic business with her father and her sister is a prize fighter.
Cool Disney female characters don’t have to be princesses, folks.

Also she wears lipstick and has cute curly hair down to her shoulders. She isn’t all butch – she has little femme touches too. She defies the stereotype that you have to be one hundred percent butch to be good with machines.

There is so much good representation here, and I always squee over the whole package.