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]

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!