article_snippet: The allegations follow on from claims made by Frozen's head of animation, Lindo De Salvo, in 2013 who said creating the characters was tricky because you have to 'keep the characters pretty.'
article_snippet: According to a Tumblr user, he said: 'Historically speaking, animating female characters are really, really difficult, because female characters have to go through these range of emotions, but you have to keep female characters pretty and female characters’re very sensitive to — you can get female characters off a model very quickly. '
article_snippet: A Disney spokeswoman reacted to the controversy by saying: 'Animation is an intricate and complex art form. '
article_snippet: As part of a roundtable discussion the binaries was describing some technical aspects of CG animation and not making a general comment on animations females versus males or other characters.'
article_snippet: The allegations follow on from claims by Frozen's head of animation, Lindo De Salvo, who said creating the female characters was tricky because you have to 'keep the female characters pretty .
highlights_snippet: Follows comments by Frozen's head of animation in 2013 that it's difficult to animate females because females  have to be kept 'pretty' 