Would you want to see traditional animation come back?

As a reminder, I'll mention that character design and storyboards are always done in 2D. GC is just the end result.

edited 25th Jul '14 1:35:52 PM by KlarkKentThe3rd

I agree with this! While it's fantastic that CGI animation is starting to have more cartoonish expressions for the characters, I still would like to see traditional animation make a comeback so that we could have more variety in animation at this moment. Unless, the new Peanuts film can show that they can do 2D animation in CGI, then that would be a good start.

Here I am still waiting for a Disney film to use the same style they used for Paperman. It's such a shame that Moana isn't using the style. Oh well what can you do. I really hope that eventually the style will become mainstream like CGI did and maybe that would allow the american market to get interested in traditional animation again. At the very least we would finally have more variety in animated films again even if this completely replaces traditional. But right now I am just waiting to see what the future has in store.

edited 28th Jul '14 1:07:32 PM by cmarston1

I heard the upcoming Feast will use the 2D/3D process also.

Is that rumor about Moana really false? Do you have confirmation?

Isn't it still here?

It was confirmed false in this article http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/john-musker-talks-little-mermaid-blu-ray-and-moana

..... isn't it a bit EARLY to call this "the third Reinassaunce"??? Seems like of self-indulgent...

Way too damn early...

Well tell that to whoever wrote that Animation Scoop article.

It's not even close to a Renaissance. Some of the films are more bearable than others though. Like Frozen.

Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, and now Frozen, are all really good to excellent. I can see where he's coming from, but we'll need to wait at least a few more films to really know for sure if we're in a solid line-up of ground-breaking award-winners.

I agree that's it's a bit too early to say that this is the third renaissance since only three or four films were released that did well and there's still the rest of this decade to see if it is truly the third renaissance. There might even be another animated film down the line that might beat Frozen in box office records.

You know, it was just about this time 20 years ago when the Second Renaissance was declared. And then Pocahontas happened.

Third Renaissance? I know this may sound ignorant right now but what was first? The 90s one?

That..... was the SECOND Renaissance. ... I guess the first one was around the time Cinderella was made because it was Disney's return to great animation, the fairy tale, the princess story, and the 3-act narrative?

edited 29th Jul '14 7:33:20 AM by kyun

Oh. People consider that to be a renaissance? If i'm correct Disney films before 1950 were just anthology films so I guess that makes sense. I always thought that era belonged in a silver age or the golden era though.

Plus, Disney was having some money troubles during the anthology era. Most of their resources had to be spent making films for the war. Anthology movies showcasing short films was way cheaper to do.

Which kind of contradicts that old expression "war is good for business."

I dunno, I imagine they were compensated pretty handily for their wartime efforts.

I have heard about Disney doing wartime cartoons during World War II and I also heard that the reason why Pinocchio bombed at the box office at the time was because of World War II going on.

edited 29th Jul '14 6:11:38 PM by Rabbitearsblog

Forced? I'm pretty sure they did it very voluntarily as a patriotic service.

Eh, I guess the truth is somewhere in the middle. Disney had a huge problem, because home box-office alone is not enough to make the cost for an animated movie. The military did put pressure on the animation companies to make those propaganda cartoons, they even had soldiers stationed in their studios (and it certainly didn't help that some of the animators were called to war, too...one of the guys who worked on "The Wind in the Willows" came back from war only to realize that the whole project didn't move one single step forward during his absence). On the other hand, this was more or less the only market left. Doing something specifically for the South American market was certainly not a bad idea in any case. But whatever money they got for those works, it was hardly enough. When Disney created Cinderella, he put all the money they had left in this one project.

It's a good thing Cinderella did a good enough job on getting Disney some money, otherwise Disney wouldn't have created more films after that.