Indeed. Pixar as a whole, though – well, they bring magic, it’s just that it’s not Disney magic. It’s Pixar magic, because that is their identity – and awesome magic though it is, I don’t really consider them “Disney movies” per se. They’re their own entities (must be the lack of spontaneous singing) even within Pixar because they’re all so different.
Pixar is great at what they do, and I love their movies to death. It’s just sad to get a glimpse of what they could do with traditional tools and knowing that instead they’ll probably have CGI food you can taste like Willy Wonka’s lickable walls by 2015. I know they could breathe new life into 2D.
I mean, I don’t want to undermine the work and time that goes into computer animation, but if I went from animating for Disney to making sandwiches for a living I’d be as bitter as Crabby Ponytail Comic Guy (plus Walt would have been horrified). I’d have to agree with Mitch in that it’s just not the same. YOU WHIPPERSNAPPERS
And as much as I’d like to be optimistic, now it seems that it’s been irreversibly established that computer animation is what people want to see, so that’s what people (in the West, anyway) will keep making – for every Wall-E there will be a bee with Jerry Seinfeld’s face. Or I could be totally making things up and have no idea what I’m talking about. It’s possible.
I hope Princess and the Frog is good, though. CROSSED FINGERS GUYS.
But they’ll pay to see mediocre ones, and we all know that’s what it’s all about!
But what we need to remember is that this comic is showing the fall of 2D animation told from the POV of that sandwich dude, who was there in the middle of it. It sounds unfair because that’s what a biased opinion is.
Of course, comics of that type are usually made to get across the opinion of the author, but you gotta admit it doesn’t seem there’d be any reason Disney wouldn’t still be cranking out 2D movies if COMPUTARZ hadn’t come along.
Then again, their sequel factory closed down, too, so thank goodness for that.
…and to be fair, we can probably blame Aladdin for the astronomical influx of big-name voices in cartoons, computer-animated or not.
…you may be onto something there. Everyone seemed to praise the 2D animated sequence in Kung Fu Panda and the 15 minutes of it in Enchanted…
Exactly. Perhaps most film-goers have strayed so far from traditionally-animated productions these days (due to a rapid increase in 3-D movies) that they’ve forgotten how delicious the basic foundation of animation is… if done correctly. Personally, I think that the 3-D hype is over. Everybody’s doing it, so it’s not exactly the new thing on the block anymore. Nevertheless, adults will still take their kids to see a 3-D film because, let’s face it, that’s all there is out there for kids to see these days, and if a traditionally-animated film does roll along its a rare occurrence, unfortunately.
(snigger)