First Shot of Animation: Snowflakes form and float into the title treatment

This started as a look at history, of a sort, and now that we’re within the last 10 years it isn’t anymore. Kind of disorienting. There’s nothing I k ow of ahead that it substantially different from this and the previous entry. Which means we’re in a very stable period, I’m not sure that’s true of any other 10 year span.

Frozen is so fast, so efficient. The first time you have a chance to breathe is after Let it Go. Up to that is a barrage of exposition, scene setting, plot, and character definition; often more than one thing at a time. Songs usually stretch a moment but the Act 1 numbers are able to condense information better than dialog would as they move through space and time. It’s a very developed story with a screenwriting manual at hand. Note how every major character is introduced in the opening minutes.

I appreciate having lead animators set to characters, I think for the final time, and how they develop and reuse gestures. You know, acting.

The final scene on the ice should have been a song. Big confrontations, climactic feelings, the balcony nobles as a chorus, it’s the perfect moment for a finale number.