Disney getting back to hand-drawn animation
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This is great news, courtesy of THR:
Ed Catmull, president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, said Thursday in Orlando that he and John Lasseter, chief creative officer of those same entities, intend to bring back traditionally animated movies. The news comes little more than two months after Disney eliminated 160 jobs from its staff of 800 at its Burbank animation studio that deals in movies and TV shows.
I am certainly not the only one who lamented the bone-headed move to get rid of hand-drawn animation at Disney. I think the former Feature Animation building in Orlando is now a Papa John’s pizza or something. I often wonder where decisions like this come from. Is it possible that any one person takes the credit/blame?
I actually feel the same about the end of animated movie musicals. Unlike killing off traditional animation, however, that decision seemed to evolve from the animators themselves instead of the executives, who didn’t want to monkey with their musical cash-cows and the soundtrack sales that came with them.