Do you really belive that technology isn't a key factor in their success (not only pixar's but cartoony cg movies in general)?
Imagine if pixar's moview were done in traditional hand-drawn technique, wouldn't we still have more of the same ol' disney moralistic fables?
Lately while traditional animated U.S. films have been declining (financially) cg movies that are basically at the same "artistic" level (..if this is art then I'm missing a term for the works of tolstoy, raphael, etc. but that's another story) and targetting the same audience have been noted for their success. I belive technology and it's novelty factor make the difference.
This is not to say that a good story is not important, but I fear that success is being equaled to quality and thus taking pixar's movies as some kind of artistic acomplishment and by deeming technique irrelevant (and studios prefering the statistically successful) missing the posibility of having some of the memorable and artistically relevant work that a unique medium like animation can offer.
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Do you really belive that technology isn't a key factor in their success (not only pixar's but cartoony cg movies in general)?
Imagine if pixar's moview were done in traditional hand-drawn technique, wouldn't we still have more of the same ol' disney moralistic fables?
Lately while traditional animated U.S. films have been declining (financially) cg movies that are basically at the same "artistic" level (..if this is art then I'm missing a term for the works of tolstoy, raphael, etc. but that's another story) and targetting the same audience have been noted for their success. I belive technology and it's novelty factor make the difference.
This is not to say that a good story is not important, but I fear that success is being equaled to quality and thus taking pixar's movies as some kind of artistic acomplishment and by deeming technique irrelevant (and studios prefering the statistically successful) missing the posibility of having some of the memorable and artistically relevant work that a unique medium like animation can offer.