Dizco kills off traditional animation

[den]

Suspended Animation "Pencils down. Disney terminates traditional animation"

I love animations. I love 2D Cel and 3DCGI animations. One is not better than the other. Using one instead of the other to reduce costs can make an excellent movie look crap, even if the story is great. However, using one instead of the other will not make a movie better if the story is crap. If you start with a bad story, cut corners, sack animators and use CGI to cut costs, you'll end up with a really nice looking pile of pooh.

Never mind the quality, feel the length!

Comments

[trede.livejournal.com]

It's always been my dream to do cell-based animation...

Most universities I've checked with dont even offer it as a course anymore...

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

Just...ouch.

The notion of having badly done 3-D re-makes of all those gorgeous old 2-D stuff from back when Disney animation was actually something to be proud of...

Urgh.

[tropism.livejournal.com]

I personally loved the old look of the movies, back when they were using a xerox to reproduce the line art and such...;)

Disney films just don't look good to me any more, now that they're done in CG. I much preferred teh old-school style - 101 Dalmations, Cinderella...all those old ones.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

3D remakes... What is the logic? How will it be better?

WHY?

I fear we'll end up with something that has all the art of a Barbie Movie (I've been forced to watch one of those while the house was full of little girls. CGI at its worst.)

Dizco wouldn't know an original story if it bit them on the bum, and so promote the wrong movies. Lilo & Stich was an original but they promoted Treasure Planet, a remake.

ah. I think I just answered the "why."

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect that it will be 'better' in so far as it will be discernible from the originals, and the sad majority will rush out to buy the crud. Sort of like Star Wars Special Edition. Disney lost my respect with Beauty and the Beast on Ice, and it's all gone downhill from there. On the whole, I don't mind living in a Capitalist world, but I truly wish that somebody would tell the tepid money grubbing amoralists in charge of everything to bugger off.

[(Anonymous)]

Um... that was me.

-Rust

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

I remember in the 70's when some animators including Hanna-Barbera decided to go the fewer cells route to save money.This was in terms of Saturday morning cartoons. You *do* notice. The fluidity of motion, attention to detail, and picture quality all suffer. Sometimes dramatically.

I enjoy 3d animation too. I'm a Pixar Studios fan. But if the tried to do the 3D CGI thing to a classic
like Snow White for example (remake), I think some people whould get the heebie jeebies. Or at least object.