Hand-Drawn Animation Returning to Disney

[wils]

Hand-Drawn Animation Returning to Disney
(IMDB.com 27/07/06)

As he has repeatedly promised, John Lasseter will revive traditional hand-drawn ("2-D") animation at the Walt Disney Co. with a feature titled The Frog Princess. The studio said Wednesday that directors Ron Clements and John Musker, whose credits include such hits as The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, and the flop, Treasure Planet, will return to direct the Princess movie, based on a Russian fairy tale. Daily Variety also reported that Alan Menken is working on the music for the movie and that it will have the kind of "Broadway style" for which Menken's earlier Disney films have been famous. Today's Hollywood Reporter questioned the strategy behind Disney's return to hand-drawn animation, noting in its report about the planned film that "traditional animation no longer draws the crowd."

 

[queenarmadillo]

Traditional animation (if its a good story to go with it) would draw me as part of the dvd buying crowd again rather than the "I'll give it a chance cos its Disney but frankly all this computer nonsense doesn't look very realistic" crowd.
Maybe I'm odd, but its so hard to really 'believe' in the computer characters. The Hydra ruined Hercules for me, and comparing Chicken Little to Bambi....

 

[KayleeUK]

Thanks for sharing Jo

 

[Minniespal]

Jo ~ Thanx for sharing