Figure it's worth a shot.
So the good news is, Disney's got their feature animation department working on The Snow Queen again. Bad news is, it's being retitled "Frozen" and it might be done in CGI instead of traditional animation.
Honestly, between this and Rapunzel being renamed "Tangled", this is shaping up to be the "Adjective Era" of Disney Animation.
It's to appeal to male audiences
Notice how the trailer focuses on Flynn
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSx1dYJlJh4[/media]
I have no specific opinion on Disney, but it seems that anything PIXAR pumps out, I can never seem to hate.
I'm on a nostalgic trip right now, rewatching stuff like Goof Troop, Darkwing Duck and stuff like that.
I do like the stuff Pixar pumps out, but for some reason I'll always love the cartoons more. I don't know how to describe it, it just seems that there's more life in drawn animation then in cg animation, if that makes any sense.
I do like the CGI ones, but usually they aren't able to make things quite as beautiful as the drawn movies. The CGI ones basically always have far more cartoonier proportions on the characters, and the drawn ones also always have more amazing detail to the characters and the environment.
Like rosthouse said, there is also something else I can't quite put my finger on that simply makes the drawn ones feel more alive.
Rewatched "Hercules" again the other day. I hope Disney brings on an outside artist to lead the look of a film again. Every time Disney adapts an artist's style to animation, [URL="http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/300/a/atlantasgn.jpg"]it's[/URL] [URL="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly90v2jlZC1qjm6tmo1_400.jpg"]frigging[/URL] [URL="http://hq55.com/disney/fan2000/fantasia2000-disneyscreencaps.com-2668.jpg"]gorgeous[/URL].
2D animation needs to make a comeback.
I miss it, and anime is too different from traditional disney-style stuff I like.
[QUOTE=Simski;34355193]I do like the CGI ones, but usually they aren't able to make things quite as beautiful as the drawn movies. The CGI ones basically always have far more cartoonier proportions on the characters, and the drawn ones also always have more amazing detail to the characters and the environment.
Like rosthouse said, there is also something else I can't quite put my finger on that simply makes the drawn ones feel more alive.[/QUOTE]
That really depends on what movies you're saying are actually "drawn" as in hand drawn. Movies have been computer animated for a while. Even the Brave Little Toaster, and Rescuers down under were both 100% computer drawn. Both movies respectively got someone fired from Disney for making them.
[QUOTE=Serj22;34404219]That really depends on what movies you're saying are actually "drawn" as in hand drawn. Movies have been computer animated for a while. Even the Brave Little Toaster, and Rescuers down under were both 100% computer drawn. Both movies respectively got someone fired from Disney for making them.[/QUOTE]
The distinction here is that they were drawn on computers, but there were still people sitting at their desk and draw stuff with their own hands. It still counts as hand-drawn.
Most of their newer stuff is done with ToonBoom, including this:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPA435yIuzQ[/media]
[QUOTE=Serj22;34404219]That really depends on what movies you're saying are actually "drawn" as in hand drawn. Movies have been computer animated for a while. Even the Brave Little Toaster, and Rescuers down under were both 100% computer drawn. Both movies respectively got someone fired from Disney for making them.[/QUOTE]
On the top of my head, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame... although the only one I know for sure is hand drawn is Beauty and the Beast :v:
"Traditional" Animation-Animators draw each frame of each character, which is placed before a drawn or painted background. For several years, this was done with pencil on paper that was then transferred to cels, which were painted. However, for "Rescuers Down Under" Disney developed the CAPS system for inking and coloring characters digitally ("The Little Mermaid" was the last Disney film to be colored by hand using cels). Starting with "The Princess and the Frog", the process has gone paperless, with tablets replacing pencil and paper. I'm not sure whether or not backgrounds are still hand-painted.
Computer animated- Animators manipulate 3D models in 3D environments. The only Disney films that are computer animated are "Chicken Little", "Meet The Robinsons", "Bolt", "Tangled", and the upcoming "Wreck-It Ralph".
Disney often incorporates computer animation into its 2D films to speed production (the wildebeest stampede in "Lion King", the hydra in "Hercules", crowd scenes in "Hunchback of Notre Dame"), but because the bulk of the film was hand-drawn characters instead of 3D models, these films are classified as traditional animation.
Following the disastrous reception of "Treasure Planet", Disney CEO Michael Eisner closed down the Disney Feature Animation traditional department, declaring traditional animation obsolete. The last traditional film Disney produced before its unit closed was "Home on the Range".
However, when Eisner was ousted in a stockholder revolt led by the late Roy Disney, John Lasseter, head of Pixar, was installed as the leader of Disney feature animation. A devoted lover of traditional animation, Lasseter quickly reinstated the department. Since its revival, the traditional arm of the studio has produced "The Princess and the Frog" and "Winnie the Pooh". The traditional arm of the studio has also been confirmed to be working on a new film headed by the directors of "Aladdin" and "Little Mermaid", though it's unclear whether it will be "Snow Queen", "King of the Elves" (adapted from the Philip K. Dick short story), or an unannounced project. Plans for an adaptation of the Discworld novel "Mort" fell through regarding a dispute over rights.
I hope that more than clears things up. :v:
Disney needs a proper megathread. Can i put one together or is the OP of this thread OK with throwing something together?
I'd be all for a proper Disney thread.
[QUOTE=rosthouse;34413562]I'd be all for a proper Disney thread.[/QUOTE]
Created it:
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1158824?p=34413655#post34413655[/url]
Yeah, me too.
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