Artist Illustrates Disney Characters With Modern Technologies, And These 12 Pics Will Make You Laugh And Wonder

by Damjan

Disney characters transcend time as the movies always speak about universal and timeless values and problems. That makes them never go out of style and always current. One artist wanted to go one step beyond and make them even more modern by giving them modern technology.

Onefairyfail created a series called “Phone Fairy Fails,” where he tries to imagine what would our favorite characters be like if they had smartphones and modern gadgets. The results are very interesting, and they may make you wonder if we are going in the right direction – it’s also a reflection on modern people.

Onefairyfail says: "Basically I love creating humorous scenes and the more they are inspired by real life and I can relate to them, the funnier they seem to me. The idea actually came to me while I was just scrolling social media, seeing all these selfies that people take with these face filters on, and then all the other situations just started floating in my head."

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"As for the rest of the FairyFAILS (that’s how I name my creations), they were born while I was watching 'Dirty Dancing' and I thought to myself how many cult movies the generation of today never watched. I thought combining famous scenes from these movies and shows with famous cartoon characters in a humorous way can pay tribute to these movies and get people to watch them and, at the same time, make others feel nostalgic."

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When asked about his inspiration, the artist said: "Basically when I started, I already had quite an active account Omerika where I’m known for my other work—which is surreal visual art, but while my Omerika artworks have a fairly melancholic vibe, once the pandemic started and quarantines became a never-ending thing, I felt that during this time, I should make more room for the lighter and more humorous side of me, so I decided to give more focus to my OneFairyFAIL account."

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"My entire concept of FairyFAILS is paying tribute to classic cult movies and TV shows that I love. I'm a huge fan of memes and cartoons in general, and so the idea of combining the cartoons with famous classic movies was born. At first, my FairyFAILS were all about that, then one day, after seeing countless videos of girls going through the 'DIY bangs' phase while in quarantine—I came up with the idea of Princess Ariel cutting her own bangs and that’s when my FairyFAILS started expanding to other concepts and scenarios and not just famous movie and TV show scenes."

Onefairyfail said this about her beginnings: "I’m originally a graphic designer, so I learned the basics of Photoshop during my graphic design studies, then I expanded my knowledge further on my own. My favorite part is bringing my idea to life visually, especially when it turns out the way I imagined it in my head.

The hardest part is when the idea I had suddenly loses its appeal to me or when the editing gets messy and doesn’t match the vision I had for it so I find myself changing the concept or starting the edit again from scratch. I’m a horrible perfectionist sometimes."

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Why did the artist choose Disney characters?

"I think that because cartoons and Disney characters, in particular, are so magical and supposedly perfect that it’s funny to me to suddenly think of them as regular people going through these realistic and not so fun experiences as we all go through in real life and how they react to these experiences."

She also shared where she gets her inspiration from: "I always come up with my ideas that are inspired from either personal experiences or something I see while scrolling through social media that I find relatable."