This year they changed Snow White and The Seven Dwarves

When I was a child, my father borrowed a DVD for me, which is named Snow White and The Seven Dwarves. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history, the first animated feature film produced in America, the first produced in full color, the first to be produced by Walt Disney Productions, and the first in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, as well as the first Disney cartoon film that I have seen as I remembered. The Seven Dwarves are cute and funny, and Snow White is so beautiful and elegant. There is no CG and render farm, it is just made in 2D which is simply, nothing of its technology is as stronger as today’s.

But this year, there come out two films which are based on the story of Snow White and The Seven Dwarves, one is called Mirror mirror, while the other is called Snow White and the Huntsman. Both of the two new films are full of CG elements and rendering results from render farm. There is a special mirror man that caught our eyes a lot in Snow White and the Huntsman. The Mill's forty shots spanned over two major sequences for the the Mill. These were pretty much full screen, ‘nowhere to hide’ kind of shots as well. The birth of the Mirror Man is where the Charlize Theron’s character Queen Ravenna is talking to the Mirror and the fluid-effects begin. The Mirror Man is a full CG character but the sequences are dialogues with Queen Ravenna. Because the sequences are not action sequences and there are multiple close ups, there is nowhere for the CG to hide.

The Snow White project was a ten month job for The Mill and another five months was just for R&D on the Mirror Man alone. There were many props for the shoot that had to be specially designed and constructed. One particular construction was required to collect the full reflection of the room surrounds.  CG and render farms are amazing technology for the original version of

Snow White and The Seven Dwarves, for me, even though they have made lots of improvements, the original one is the most impressive and classical, because it is full of our memory.