Disney Animator Marlon West breaks down Princess Dress Animations

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• Talks about the color change of Cinderella's dress (There's a dissolve and a color shift!)
• West was the lead animator on The Princess and The Frog, how the pixie dust are interspersed with water droplets when they turn Tiana, the first and only black princess, into a frog. I'm still bitter.
• Actual Candy Princess Vanellope in Wreck It Ralph is an

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[xpirate_queenx]

Cinderella's dress gets me every time. Reading Walt Disney's quote about how it was supposed to look like/be made of pure moonlight, I'll never see it another way.

[greenfairy_87]

That explains so much about the color choice!

[xpirate_queenx]

It's why I'm so dissatisfied with the live action rendition. What they went with is very pretty, but so were all the other dresses in that movie. I was expecting something more along the lines of Claire Danes' MET Gala dress from a few years back.