So I want to address a question that someone left for me about my BFA project. “The animation is great! I have no idea why it was made into a Spanish-theme, though. I don’t understand the point.”
For those of you that don’t know, my BFA project is an animated TV show titled “Candied Magic” which is a retelling of the Hansel and Gretel fairytale, mine being set in Mexico with a few twists.
I have received more backlash from this project that I expected, people writing racist comments about it to people asking me why I didn’t keep the characters white like the original story.
And my answer to this comment is simple enough. Because I want to see more diversity. I don’t have to be a minority to want that. There is not a single white person in my show and why does there need to be? Why can’t I retell this fairytale in a different and honestly beautiful culture? Mexico has some awesome and bizarre candy! It works perfectly! So if people can’t look past the skin color of my characters then frankly I don’t want them watching my show. I have a series of projects where I retell fariytales set to different cultures. It started with Stroke of Midnight, Cinderella in Italy, and I have no plans of stopping.
The best part of BFA was reading the comments from people who belong to this amazing culture. I had people come up to me saying they hadn’t expected to walk into the show and see their culture portrayed. That made me happier than anything else, for my characters to represent an amazing culture that we are finally seeing more of in animation and media, as well as people who don’t belong to the culture being introduced to some of it!
So to those who claim “don’t see the point”, I doubt you ever will.
Can you post a link to this? It looks awesome :o
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