All you need is _____

L O V E ! love, love is all you need.

As you could've guessed, this week's topic is L'amour. As it sounds better in french right? Well, in animation there's ALWAYS a love scene, no exception. What's about a story without the final kiss? And the...''happy forever after''.

Now we are talking about love as something literal like in Snowhite and the seven dwarfs or the Lion King, even Ariel from the little mermaid takes love as something that HAS to happen in order to give some action or to withdraw the storyline ahead into one defying plot. But what about the love as something subjective, like in Toy Story, you might say there's no storyline including love but, there's the love from Andy to his toys, and Woody keeps moving because of this love, because Love is a strength, its some kind of feeling that move the character to make somethings he wouldn't do, and as well as we watch it on animation (the prince could face a dragon in order to save the princess).

There's a question hidden behind every corner: what would you do...for love? Oh no no, better, What wouldn't you do for love? For you family, for your beloved, for your TOYS or your drawings, for your passions or goals. Save a gipsy hanging from a rope at 50feet from the floor, Losing your voice? Joining an army against the Huns? Or...becoming an OGER. Tousché! We all have that weak point where impossible becomes reachable with that strange force, love. There's also the 'Meant to be love' Like, Jack and Sally or Kiara and Kowu, Pocahontas and John Smith, that's no more than an animated reproduction of Romeo and Juliet.

It's also the I hate you I love you, like in Ratatouille, Hey Arnold! or Hercules. Or the weird love like in Beauty and the Beast or Evangeline in the Princess and the Frog. All of them are ways to express or to behave when Humans fell in love, those are only human feelings, they work as cultural models, I actually blame disney for convincing me of that Happy Forever after story, I believe that love stories nowadays will become sourer than what it is. Because children may grow with illusions in their heads, that are not exactly real. Princes will not always come at the right moment in a white horse, they might come when you less expect them , maybe in some sweat shirts, even in bus.

But the white horse and the Ads smile might not be very accurate in real life. 'Love is a battlefield' it's hard to get is as pure as it wants it to be, and there's one animation that has already shown this perfectly, Shrek the Fourth. There's a marriage between two ogres, and a Happy Forever After story. What happens? That happy life becomes terribly boring and repetitive. It's not only the morning kiss and the picnic, it's taking care of children, work to maintain a whole family, and also work to keep a love life effective, keep it alive, be always in love with the one you adore, watch it everyday as if it was the first time, and that is not easy to keep. So that's why many divorces are, because 'Love wasn't enough' and thats true, is about tolerance and matureness love feelings.

So, as this is my last post in here (naaa, I'll be back I promise) , I'll tell you what have I learnt from writing it:

Ive learnt that working in teams is really interesting because art can scream from different sides.
It's really nice to keep the constant posting, Ive learnt to be consequent with my posts, that might be very helpful in my own personal blog.
Ive learnt a lot of things about art, from movies to poetry and painting, this is a really interesting blog, we all did our best to keep the audience satisfied so I hope you enjoy.
I've learnt how to make this page heard by many people, with RSS channels or sharing it on twitter.
Blogger is a nice platform to make blogs, it's very easy to use and things such as customization are one of a kind.
I've learnt to thank my sources and appreciate their work.
I've learnt to use some widgets and blogger applications I had no idea they existed.
I discovered my passion for animation, I didn't knew I was totally fond of it.
I actually discovered many blogs in my class that are very interesting aswell, you may find them in our blogroll.
I didn't know how to use a blogroll.


So this is it, I hope you guys have a good time reading our posts. We might read each other another time. So leave comments!

Love is all.





I'd like to thank linemor92 for making this beautiful video, you should visit her youtube channel too!

Also I've got to thank elisabethc for the first image I posted, you can also visit her page on Tumblr