Lilo & Stitch

[den]

I watched Lio & Stitch again today (Bad Den! Do your assignments!) and enjoyed it immensely again. That enjoyment was spoiled a bit by the knowledge that Dizco will not be making a movie like this again. This one has a really nice mix of CGI and Cel animation, and the most wonderful backgrounds, and one of the best original stories - something Dizco hasn't had for yonks.

CGI will not make a crap movie better, and some stories are spoiled by hyper-realistic animation.

Comments

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Disney have closed their cel animation department and will only produce CGI animations by Pixar.

[erin-c-1978.livejournal.com]

Not just by Pixar. They're putting the cel animators they haven't laid off, veterans who've been doing beautiful drawings for ages, on computers. Unfortunately, they've yet to realize that computers won't fix story problems, and CGI isn't a magic bullet.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I've been watching the Bonus sections, and it looks like Lilo & Stitch are all done on "cels" that were created on the computer. The animators drew them on the digital version of a light table where running the pen over the screen created a line. However, each frame was still drawn by hand, and all the backgrounds were scanned watercolours.

[erin-c-1978.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I didn't mean that Lilo and Stitch was done on computers; like you said, their films have been colorized by computer for awhile now, but they're still hand drawn. I meant that that Disney's in the process of transferring their old 2D animators to an in-house 3D animation department, which will be making films separately from Pixar.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Ah.

...come to think of it, it might be better if they handed all their animation over to Pixar. I dread to see what will come out of this bastard animation department. Probably more even lower quality knock-off sequals to existing titles. Treasure Planet 2! YAY!