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End Of Fox Animation

Posted by Hemos on from the it's-closin'-time dept.

RobM writes: "I've found on the New York Times (registration required) that Fox Animation has been shut down after Titan A.E. flopped. What do you think of this film and the reasoning in the article '2D sucks, 3DCGI is the way to go'?"

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  1. The real story by danimal · · Score: 5
    Fox only closed the Phoenix facility. The New York based Blue Sky Studios is still open and working on a full length feature (I know, I work there).

    The reason the Phoenix facility was closed was that after 3 films the returns were just dissappointing. Fox is a business and this was a business decision, plain and simple.

    -danimal
    *disclaimer* these comments neither represent Fox or Blue Sky Studios, they are mine alone.

  2. 2d, 3d is irrelevant. by Lonesmurf · · Score: 5

    All animation is still just that: animation.

    The vast majority of all animated films that have come out in the last ten years have been a flop; with the glaring exceptions of some monumental Disney flicks.

    The newest cgi movie from Disney, Dinosaur, was technologically astounding but was an utter disgrace when it came to the acting and the story. I was almost crying it was so bad (no, not really).

    Now, had Disney decided to make the entire movie a classical music feast with cgi visuals, it would have been both innovative and amazing. The reason that they did this is very, very simple: you can't market class and good taste. A talking Dinosaur sells, a Classical music epic does not. While I would take my kids to a viewing of The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, or Aladdin, I know that if I took them to the original Fantasia, they would be both bored and annoyed (or annoying..). The reasoning behind this is because children (and the vast majority of all adults and adolesents) today are media slobbering brain-washed babboons that not only don't want something better, they don't even realise that there COULD BE.

    So, this isn't about the animation (plenty of good animation from toystory to wallace and grommit and back again) but about making bad pop-culture movies that have no story/plot and no intrigue to pull an audience in.

    Fox Studios doesn't seem to be able to make those kind of movies, I will not miss them.

    Rami James
    Guy who like cartoons.
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  3. Most americans can't take animation seriously by browser_war_pow · · Score: 5

    We've been raised for generations to believe that animation is for little kids and that live action somehow is for adults. Most of the kids at my high school (I'll be a senior this year) don't even for the most part respect anime thanks to the marketting bastards that have made many americans think "sailor moon/pokemon==anime".

    Most of americans won't even watch serious anime like the guyver series, nge, macross II, ninja scroll and akira. So I say that there isn't much hope for serious animation in general here in the US if most americans won't even willingly give some serious anime like the series listed above.

    Remember folks, this ain't Japan where animation is considered a highly respectable, serious artform that all ages appreciate. You can find R rated anime in theatres in Japan and it can do quite well if it is well done, but here in the US it will be lucky if it is successful in ANY form at all.

  4. My opinion. by Kickasso · · Score: 5

    "2D sucks, 3DCGI is the way to go" == "painting sucks, sculpture is the way to go"
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