Bye bye cel

[sbisson]

Are we hearing the tolling of the death knell for the traditional hand-drawn animated movie? Disney is closing its Florida animation studio - the folk who gave us Lilo and Stitch, amongst many others.

The current Disney pipeline is now pretty much all CGI...

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Re: Probably sad ...

[devilgate.livejournal.com]

You've forgotten Finding Nemo in the Pixar list.

Of course, the reason the Pixar movies are so much better than anything non-Pixar Disney released over the same few years (IMHO, of course) is not the CGI: it's the scripts. Every time my kids watch Toy Story now I'm amazed by a) how clunky the animation looks now, post Monsters Inc and Shrek; and b) the script-writing team.

Although, having just checked the IMDB, I find that things are not quite as I thought. Certainly the Joss Whedon on the credits is the real one; but I discovered that the other name that had me amazed is Joel Cohen, not Joel Coen. Oh well. It doesn't really affect my argument that it's the scripts.