Disney turns away from hand-drawn animation

[Léo]

I just find on a article of the Guardians, which explain that Disney will do big budget cut in the Traditional Animation 2D department.
Here is the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/mar ... -animation
Here is a French article about that: http://www.allocine.fr/article/ficheart ... 23095.html

[Léo]

Just find the Cartoon Brew link about this case: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/break ... 81043.html

[Elodie]

Thanks for sharing Leo

[D.T. Nethery]

This is from an interview recorded in 2009 :




Passionate words about hand drawn animation ... so what changed between 2009 and now ? If what he said was true then , then it's true now. But the Disney Corporation seems to now be doing exactly that : blaming the medium , rather than looking honestly at what the real problem has been with HOW they use the medium.

[Fabrice]

maybe the real problem was the creativity.

[ematecki]

Or the software they used :)

[idragosani]

maybe the real problem was the creativity.

I share this opinion.

[Svengali]

I remember when John Lasseter was Anakin Skywalker. Now, I'm afraid he's turned into Darth Vader (pixar = deathstar)... and bought the ranch.

Sven

[idragosani]

This will give the indie animators and indie studios the opportunity to shine. I've far more enjoyed the stuff coming from Cartoon Saloon, Gobelins, Sylvain Chomet, Bill Plympton and that Fierlinger guy than anything Disney has done in a long while, and they spent far far less money than any overblown Disney film.

[Fabrice]

This will give the indie animators and indie studios the opportunity to shine. I've far more enjoyed the stuff coming from Cartoon Saloon, Gobelins, Sylvain Chomet, Bill Plympton and that Fierlinger guy than anything Disney has done in a long while, and they spent far far less money than any overblown Disney film.

I share this point of view with you.

Not good for people who will be fired and jobless, but good for the 2D animation in general, in the way the independant animation (or small companies) will then be more source of interest.

Same might happen in other famous places, later or sooner (Ghibli, for exemple)

[Léo]

This will give the indie animators and indie studios the opportunity to shine. I've far more enjoyed the stuff coming from Cartoon Saloon, Gobelins, Sylvain Chomet, Bill Plympton and that Fierlinger guy than anything Disney has done in a long while, and they spent far far less money than any overblown Disney film.

I share this point of view with you.

Not good for people who will be fired and jobless, but good for the 2D animation in general, in the way the independant animation (or small companies) will then be more source of interest.

Same might happen in other famous places, later or sooner (Ghibli, for exemple)

This will be "The New Hope" of the 2D animation

[idragosani]

Not good for people who will be fired and jobless, but good for the 2D animation in general, in the way the independant animation (or small companies) will then be more source of interest.

Same might happen in other famous places, later or sooner (Ghibli, for exemple)

It's always sad when someone loses a job, but hoping the people who became unemployed can find more interesting work.

[D.T. Nethery]

maybe the real problem was the creativity.

Precisely. But admitting that is harder on the ego than to shrug one's shoulders while making simplistic claims that "the movie-going public just does not want to see hand-drawn animation anymore. Too bad, but what can we do ? "


I think that the real answer is: the movie-going public doesn't want to see a certain kind of hand-drawn film -- such as a minor re-boot of "Winnie the Pooh" -- which they feel (rightly) is the same old thing they've seen before.

[User767]

Doesn't Disney still dub and redistribute Ghibli films? Obviously, someone can make that 2D stuff work. Just not the mega-corporation. They can't see that?

I see the problem as them lacking vision.

[slowtiger]

For me the last interesting Disney features have been The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo and Stitch. Everything in between wasn't even interesting enough to watch, except that I caught Bolt and Tangled on TV - the first one was OK, the second a mess. It's not that they don't know how to draw anymore - they don't know how to tell an interesting story anymore.