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Several news outlets have commented on Disney's purchase of Pixar. They haven't talked about what Jobs might do with his newfound role on the Disney board, but they have commented why Pixar is so important to Disney -- because people don't like "hand-drawn" animation anymore.
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Could it be that people don't like recent animated movies from Disney simply because they aren't very good? I know I have nothing against traditional animation, and in many ways prefer it over 3D computer animation. What makes Pixar such a success isn't that they have the biggest bank of computers and best renderers, but that their story telling is superb and their visual use of the medium is true mastery. Just look at Miyazaki or the past Disney animated hits -- what makes them good isn't the medium, it's the use of it, the screenplay, the direction, the animation equivalent of cinematography.
I'm also not quite certain why this annoys me enough to post about it, but every time the news mentions how "hand-drawn" animation is useless I twitch.
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Could it be that people don't like recent animated movies from Disney simply because they aren't very good? I know I have nothing against traditional animation, and in many ways prefer it over 3D computer animation. What makes Pixar such a success isn't that they have the biggest bank of computers and best renderers, but that their story telling is superb and their visual use of the medium is true mastery. Just look at Miyazaki or the past Disney animated hits -- what makes them good isn't the medium, it's the use of it, the screenplay, the direction, the animation equivalent of cinematography.
I'm also not quite certain why this annoys me enough to post about it, but every time the news mentions how "hand-drawn" animation is useless I twitch.
