Lucas Returning to Digital Animation

deadwood writes "It seems Lucas is creating a Digital Animation studio as a subsidiary of ILM, according to this Yahoo! article.
Lucasfilm Animation is created roughly 17 years after George Lucas sold Pixar to Steve Jobs. I wonder if Episode VII-IX would be a good choice as first projects?"

Comments

Nooo!!!

[mccalli]

Mr Lucas and I used to have an admirable arrangement. I gave him money, and he gave me good films.

In recent years however, he's rather been letting down his side of the bargain. I still gave him money, but he gave dross in return. It seems that most of the reason he's given me dross is because of an obsession with digital filmaking - looks like he's much more interested in the technology behind the film than in the film itself these days.

Bah. Bring back model-making and puppetry, and hire a decent set of writers...

Cheers,
Ian

Re:Why digital?

[uberdave]

People can't do anything by hand anymore. Lego and Meccanno have both gone to pre-designed models (if you can even *find* Meccanno). Radio Shack doesn't sell Electronics Kits, or electronic components anymore. "Do-It-Yourself" somehow got left behind in the dim mists of the 20th century.