Is Disney still gonna make new hand-drawn animated movies?

I think it really depends on whether or not traditional animation will make a comeback in the market itself. Disney doesn't necessarily have to be the main company to bring back traditional animation. They just have to wait and see how much money traditional animation will be making in the market and they can decide whether or not it's worth going back to traditional animation.

edited 13th Sep '14 11:02:27 AM by Rabbitearsblog

Yeah 2D's not dead...just lacking in the feature market. I also heard that Laika is strongly considering a hand-drawn feature.

Laika? Well, that's promising. They have a really good track record so far. If they keep it up, they will be soon Disney's greatest competitor.

Damn, that would be awesome.

I'm pretty sure having The Boxtrolls be successful is the surest way they'll make a 2D feature.

The Tomatometer for that one is going way up now, BTW.

Yeah, I could never buy into the whole "2D animation" is dead thing since other companies can easily make more 2D animated movies in the future if they wanted to.

Capable =/= will.

Disney sure proved THAT to me more than twice!!

I find the concept of Photography not being art insulting. Its just as valid an art as animation and paintings.

People are just hurt that Those Photography are invading Their Amination.

CGI suddenly = photography???

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Who has been saying that 2d animation is dead? Turn on your television and you'll see tons of cartoons that are 2d. If anything, actually traditional animation with cels is dead..probably since it's expensive and very time consuming.

edited 13th Sep '14 7:48:23 PM by teddy

... sure. Since Toy Story, every single movie tried to use CGI to mimick the look of photography.

agree. Cgi tries to look like those photo albums you buy at Walmart. It's pretty of course, but it's obvious they try to. At least to me.

edited 13th Sep '14 8:16:07 PM by teddy

I'm appreciating how the cartoony form and movement has become more popular as CGI tech advanced, ... but I always say: why not just draw everything to begin with if you want that look anyway!?

You know what we need for more 2D animated films?

More The Movie adaptations.

Like, in adaptations of already existing series? Hoo boy, nowadays it looks like most networks sabotage most of their new animated series BEFORE they can get anywhere popular enough for a movie.

I have to say I think it's due time for an Adventure Time movie.

The only time I like The Movie movies is if they stay true not only to the feel of the original, but to EVERYTHING! The look, the writing, the pace, everything.

Made-for-TV Movie with no Animation Bump.

That may or may not simply be a glorified episode the network is using for ratings.

edited 13th Sep '14 8:28:57 PM by Grounder

Like this?

I agree with this. I don't see why some people would say that 2D animation is dead. As long as there are still people around who can do traditional animation or they pass the technique down to someone else, it will never die.

For the record, I never wrote that Photography is not an art (I actually specifically said that it can be). I only wrote that just the technical ability to make a realistic copy of reality is not immediately art, and that there are ways to express yourself with paintings which are not possible with photography.

It just seems like there is a lot of traditionally animated stuff because some long lasting shows are still on air and because a huge number of available animated TV shows are actually animes. But if you look at the non-animes, then you might noticed that most of them are by now either CGI or Flash animation.

edited 14th Sep '14 3:59:29 AM by Swanpride

Most of Disney's, Cartoon Network's, and Nick's TV cartoons are all original properties and not based on an existing franchise.

edited 14th Sep '14 8:44:40 AM by kyun

Flash counts as 2D for me because it projects a 2D image onto the TV screen

@Swanpride, the biggest issue is that both Pat F and Pooh 2011 went up against Chipmunks 2 (tbh, Fox hasn't made that much good decisions since 2003 when they cancelled Futurama), James Cameron's Avatar, and the final Harry Potter movie.