Disney Does Digital, Ditches Drawings

Posted by simoniker on Sunday November 9, 2003 @06:21PM from the darn-tootin dept.

May Kasahara writes "This is something which has been the talk amongst animators for the past couple of weeks: Walt Disney Feature Animation is in the process of halting all work on traditionally-animated features and going completely CG. Supposedly, all of their animators-- even staunch traditionalists such as Glenn Keane-- are being trained on 3D computer animation techniques. The last hand-drawn high-budget Disney feature scheduled for release is Home on the Range, which is due out next April. It appears that Disney is bowing to the supposed pressures of the market, even though the hand-drawn Lilo and Stitch was considered a success and the all-CG Dinosaur (done at Disney's now-defunct FX house The Secret Lab) was not. However, I believe there's another factor at work: Pixar's contract with Disney is set to expire soon, and the revered CG house has been making their own demands of Disney for the contract's renewal."

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Walt loved technology, yes. by joelparker · 2003-11-09 18:54 · Score: 1, Troll

Walt Disney would have loved this move to full CG!
What does Walt think about technology?
Let's thaw him and ask! :) From the strange-but-true department here... Walt Disney was fascinated with technology. It's no wonder the creator of Mickey Mouse had his body frozen. Immediately after his death on December 17, 1965, Walt Disney was placed into cryogenic suspension - in other words, frozen. The theory goes that anyone suspended and preserved can be brought back to life, if or when the cure is discovered for whatever that person died from. Technology will be able to revive them from cryogenic suspension. And so Walt Disney waits for the day he'll be brought back to life.
1. Re:Walt loved technology, yes. by Minna+Kirai · 2003-11-10 05:06 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  around people caring more about the frozen person that he does about people here today.
  
  Which is exactly how wealthy, priviledged USians act today. Instead of feeding the poor, they live in mansions with solid-marble bathtubs and breakfast on scrambled sturgeon-egg and Kobe bacon.
  
  It's perfectly consistent for a rich man to expect things to stay the same in the future. Those folks are always selfish; the silly part is investing in a scheme that won't pay off.