Disney bringing back shorts

[Ambifins]

There was a great article in the Sunday New York Times today about Disney bringing back the short cartoon form (after 50! years), which they'll be showing before Disney features.
I've been reading a lot here about the layoff of animators, etc etc, but this seems like a step in a great direction. Disney sees this as a chance to give young animators opportunites to develop their talents (it also is the first time, apparently, in the history of the company that a lead animator is a woman).
I'm sure someone will include a link (I'm not an on-line subscriber).
Anyway, I'm pretty stoked.

 

[jimmytammy]

I hope this comes true. Disney, IMO needs to be back on track with its Animation Dept. It also needs to work on developing a good story dept.

 

[dbm20th]

The plans are there and the idea is a good one. Now the shorts have to actually be good.

 

[Another Voice]

This concept has not only been a staple at Pixar from the beginning - but it's also been tried several times in the past.

Remember - the animation group in Florida was set-up specifically to make short subjects. Some of you must have seen the couple 'Rodger Rabbit' shorts that Disney and Amblin put out. It was only after the Burbank Studio become overwhelmed with the factory-paced production schedule that Florida took doing some additional work. Disney's animation group in Paris and Austrailia also produced a couple shorts before being either killed off or downgraded to television animation.

I hope this idea sticks - it's the only way to train good animators (by letting them animate). But I fear that these people will become victims of cost cutting very, very, very soon.

 

[YoHo]

I was gonna say, 50 years my fanny, have you not watched the beginning of a pixar film? Have you not seen the Roger Rabbit shorts?

 

[Cricket2]

This concept has not only been a staple at Pixar from the beginning

I believe pixar's shorts have earned them at least five Academy Award Animated Short nominations and two wins.

I hope this idea sticks - it's the only way to train good animators (by letting them animate). But I fear that these people will become victims of cost cutting very, very, very soon.

Since one of the reasons that Pixar uses the shorts is to test out animation methods and software enhancements, I'm not so sure that creating the shorts isn't a cost cutting measure. It's cheaper to test out an idea in a short and have it fail there than on a big budget feature than ends up in the scrap heap isn't it?

 

[MJMcBride]

I believe one of them has to do with the Loch Ness Monster. I sense a DAK future attraction right next to that Nemo Musical

 

[dbm20th]

I believe one of them has to do with the Loch Ness Monster. I sense a DAK future attraction right next to that Nemo Musical

From a short film?

 

[Disneybag]

From a short film?

I'm thinking he was being sarcastic. There isn't any room for it. The Theatre in the Wild is sandwiched between Dinoland and E:E. Though it's seems that a majority of the new attractions will be Pixar-themed. They're going back to Monster's Inc. in Tomorrowland at MK...where CAN'T you find Nemo....and I'm still waiting on my Incredibles attraction...

 

[MJMcBride]

I'm thinking he was being sarcastic. There isn't any room for it. The Theatre in the Wild is sandwiched between Dinoland and E:E. Though it's seems that a majority of the new attractions will be Pixar-themed. They're going back to Monster's Inc. in Tomorrowland at MK...where CAN'T you find Nemo....and I'm still waiting on my Incredibles attraction...

I was only being partially sarcastic. There is room back there along the river I believe.