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(Music: Peter Gundry – On the Edge of Forever)
"The Snow Queen" is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen
...Her kiss was colder than ice, it went quite through to his heart, which was already almost a lump of ice, he felt as if he were going to die, but only for a moment... Kay soon seemed quite well again, and did not notice the cold around him...
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Very well done, love the detail...and enjoyed the story thouroughly.
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I love the distorted perspective you have going on in the background. So cool. Makes it seem like everything is towering overhead and about to fall.
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One of my favorite childhood stories of all time
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I'm gonna have to get that book from Hans Andersen. It's an anthology of his stories. Only a handful of which I'm only familiar with.
The Snow Queen is not one of them, but it will be soon. Thank you...
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This is beautiful! The Snow Queen was one of my favourite fairy tales growing up and you captured it perfectly!
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I love how mythical this looks. This makes me want to read the original story of the snow queen. Your art is truly beautiful
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If Frozen had been more faithful to this story it could have been a better movie -_-
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frozen was a brilliant movie. its strayed quite far from the source of inspiration but it was a great movie with some really good characters and a good core meaning
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I'm in complete disagreement with you there, but hey it's no problem if you liked it
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its just that i dont get why people hate it so much... you dont like the point it makes about sisterly love being important? or the plot twist where its the fact that anna loves elsa that saves her even though through the entire thing everyones been thinking classic fairytale prince+princess love? i really dont get it....
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Well I wouldn't mind explaining why I personally don't like it.
I am in complete support of Disney doing a theme around siblings and sisters - I love family themes so much more than romance and love siblings in particular - but my problem with Frozen is that Anna and Elsa just... did not feel like sisters to me. I did not once get a feeling of any sort of bond between them. I would sooner have believed that they were close friends who had drifted apart rather than sisters, because the movie shows that throughout the years, despite the fact that they are sisters and live in the same place, they don't spend any time with each other. It's made out that Elsa just stays in her room all day while Anna entertains herself alone, and that the coronation is the first time Elsa ever actually leaves her room, apart from when they said goodbye to their parents. And then even after Elsa's powers are revealed 90% of the movie she is never even in the same scene as Anna. What I'm saying is, the movie did a very poor job of actually making the sisterly bond between them the focus, or even convincing. Aside from when they were kids, the only real "sisterly" moment I can remember about them is that small talk they have during the coronation party where they both go "mmm, chocolate". That's it. Sure Anna goes after Elsa when she leaves but I mean she kind of had to since Elsa just up and left the entire kingdom cursed with eternal winter. The rest of the movie? It's a boring road trip following Anna, who personality-wise hasn't got a lot going for her other than her I guess dorky positive attitude (she talks like a modern teenager which puts me off), and Kristoff, who serves no purpose in the movie and also doesn't have much of a personality. He is only there as a plot device, so that Anna can travel through the snow (which really she could've done herself if she had actually prepared instead of just rushing off in her party dress on a horse like an idiot), and I guess he's also there to fool the audience into thinking he would be the "true love" that will melt Anna's heart when she's frozen. Even in the latest Frozen short, Kristoff is barely a character, he's just there. If Disney really wanted to dispense with the whole "every princess needs a true love/prince" cliche then they could've gone to the lengths of actually making Kristoff a respectful character who is equal to Anna that doesn't end up with her, or just not have him be in there at all.
Honestly I could go on about a whole bunch of other things that makes Frozen bad, like the plot making little to no sense, the villain being lame and contrived, and Elsa herself being such a shallow underdeveloped character - but if I'm just going to address the point about sisterly love then I think I've said enough. If you want a Disney movie with a beautiful and believable sisterly bond then Lilo and Nani from Lilo and Stitch are a thousand times better than Elsa and Anna. Heck even Hiro and Tadashi from Big Hero 6, even with the small amount of screentime those two got together, did a better job of showing a beautiful and strong sibling relationship than Frozen did. Even further than that, I would add in Ralph and Vanellope from Wreck-It-Ralph as being characters with a great example of a sibling relationship, even though they're not related!
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It's wonderful! I love the toned down colors and the creepy city in the background. And her icy gaze... Poor, poor Kai. Also, I feel like a total idiot, but only after seeing your picture I realized how strongly the White Witch from Chronicles of Narnia and her relationship with Edmund was based on the Snow Queen story... Thanks for making me see that!
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I found it odd that she doesn't feel affection, yet wants to keep Kei (or Kai, Kay, Key; there are many ways to spell his name) all to herself as company. Or at least that's what was told in the version I heard.
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possessiveness and affection are not i repeat NOT the same thing AT ALL. please realise this before you EVER date ANYONE...
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I'm aware. I'm a victim of a Yandere - like an actual Yandere.
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This is just before Santa Claus T-bones her, puts Kay on Vixen to take to the North Pole, then leaps into a knife fight with the Snow Queen.
Seriously, a beautifully drawn, somber, and shadowy picture. Well done.
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That sounds like a GREAT story, or scene!
I'd like to actually see it portrayed.
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Oh! One of my fav Andersen's fary tale 
It's just beautifull
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If you're talking about the Disney version, it's not the same.
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Awesome work on the sky and I love the houses in the background^^
Also great color choice.
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beautiful lines and dark feel. I love their look, as some dark twisted love.
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Many thanks for enjoying!
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I'm one that should thank you.
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Enjoy this piece a lot! the lines are just swirl-wiggly enough to help the story along, but still give the whole thing great structure. Yay for you!
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Thank you so much!
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