Should Disney make More CGI Films?

It works for Pixar and Dreamworks, and even worked for Wreck-It-Ralph.

Will it work for Disney's own independent films?

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Either way, they already are. I think their hand drawn days are behind them.

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If the writing's good and they manage to use the style and medium to the fullest... sure, why not?

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

I don't really care if the animation is CG or hand drawn as long as its good.

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The Princess And The Frog and Winnie The Pooh aside, that's all they've been making for like a decade now.

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No, because they'll be mistaken for Pixar.

Disney is Pixar. Or Pixar is Disney, whichever.

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Disney's non-Pixar CGI movies tend to feel more like Dreamworks movies, at least to me.

Well cgi is just a medium, so if they feel stories would be better told with cg then I don't see why not. Obviously I don't want this to come at the expense of hand-drawn animation though, I'm sure we all want both.

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Sure why not. But it'd be nice to see some drawn films too.

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I'd definitely like to see more hand-drawn animation. I do prefer the look of 2D, and I'd like to at least see some 2D releases out there sometimes, at least to have a greater variety of animation styles.

I would say no. They are using CGI in attempts to be appealing because they think that is what people want these days. They fail to grasp that the reason Pixar and Dreamworks has been so well received is because they work to make a good story that happens to be visualized using CGI.

It should be a tool in the box, just like traditional, live action, cut-paper, and clay.

Except Wreck-It Ralph felt like Pixar and Brave felt like Dreamworks trying to be Disney.

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Ralph felt like Dreamworks at its best with a few dashes of Pixar. Which is no insult, because at its best, Dreamworks can be actually quite good.

Given the layoffs and buyouts from major VFX studios we've had in the past months, Disney should seriously tread themselves delicately with their future developments. I would love to see them return to hand-drawn animation, but only if they CON-CEN-TRATE ON A GREAT STO-RY AND TELL THE MAR-KET-ING DE-PART-MENT TO RE-LEASE IT ON THE RIGHT DATE!!! They goofed up with The Princess And The Frog, and the following hand-drawn film Winnie-the-Pooh didn't help boost enthusiasm.

edited 1st Apr '13 11:30:52 AM by kyun

They probably won't be doing anything other than CGI for a while. Moviegoers (at least American ones) don't seem to care about any other forms of animation very much.

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Of course they shouldn't, but they are going to, so it doesn't really matter

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This is pretty much what they're doing.

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Why shouldn't they?

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I don't think anybody has an objection to Disney making CG films, just to them making CG films to the exclusion of traditional style.

I think they should make a Paperman-style hybrid every cycle.

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That'd be a neat thing.

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They need to modify the method to make it less work-intensive though. Probably that mostly entails getting the ink mapping more accurate.

1. rough animate CGI

2. draw ink keyframes

3. render ink inbetweens

4. fix the inbetweens because the computer is an idiot

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The computer does exactly what you tell it to and not what you want it to. Don't blame the computer because the guy who made the program wasn't able to make it work properly.

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