Comments on: John Lasseter talks D23, Future of Hand-Drawn, “Frozen” Image…

By: Gazerbeam

Gazerbeam — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:56:00 +0000

I personally feel that hand-drawn is prettier overall but I prefer Pixar to Disney in terms of animation and character design when it comes to CG films. I mean, I don’t like how Anna, Elsa or Rapunzel look. At all. They look so boring. Narrow beauty ideal. If they’re keeping up the CG they better refresh the character designs and make them look more original. I think Merida is prettier since she looks more like a real person, with smaller eyes, unique facial features, and a more realistic body type. If they’re never doing hand-drawn again I’m seriously sad, I mean I’m fine with Pixar doing CG since they’re so good at it and it’s their thing, but I wish Disney would keep up the hand-drawn since it seems to be disappearing overall which is a shame. It seems only anime creators do hand-drawn these days, on the other hand I’m happy they’re still doing it.
I know there are issues with The Princess and the Frog, but I actually preferred it to Tangled. It felt more charming to me somehow. I think Tangled is overrated, I mean it’s enjoyable but not much else. And I hope they didn’t think The Princess and the Frog was unsuccessful because of the POC characters. And even if it was, they should create more POC characters overall in order to change people’s views and open their minds so that not every movie about POC is assumed to be “for POC” and movies about white people are assumed to be “for everyone”.

By: JayEllCee12

JayEllCee12 — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:12:00 +0000

Heheee, that Frozen picture makes me giggle :3
Still not a day goes by when I don’t feel sad about Disney not making traditionally-animated films anymore; deep down, I’ve always wished Tangled was traditionally-animated, and it would have been interesting to see how well it would have done, giving clarity to the ‘Was the movie successful because it’s CGI?’ question. A part of my crazy mind likes to think that one of the future animated Disney films (maybe John Musker and Ron Clements’ new film) will be traditionally-animated, and they’re just going to keep it a secret – but I have too much wishful thinking 🙁

By: Aliscen Khaw

Aliscen Khaw — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 09:49:00 +0000

i mean i love disney’s new success in 3D but i still think they should do both, they could have new original 2-d and 3-D movies couldnt they?

By: Aliscen Khaw

Aliscen Khaw — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 09:48:00 +0000

why don’t they incoporate 2-d into 3-d? i mean look at the croods it still had some 2-d animation in the film.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 03:07:00 +0000

The picture of Anna (sorry AHna) and Kristoff made me seriously lol! Is this where they first meet? Talk about first impressions!

By: Ian Miller

Ian Miller — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 02:46:00 +0000

In reply to Nathan C..

You have a point. I think execs and analysts are in a hard spot of trying to justify greenlighting things, but you want hard data points, like “hand drawn vs. CGI” instead of “well, the story was just better.”

I am not sad about Tangled at all – it is the film that turned me into a Disney fan. However, that doesn’t mean I don’t wish Princess and the Frog wasn’t a better film and had had the same impact.

I’m hoping that “no traditionally animated films” doesn’t rule out the Paperman animation method. I’d definitely accept that!

By: Nathan C.

Nathan C. — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 00:07:00 +0000

I almost wish Tangled didn’t happen. Not because I dislike Tangled, it’s just that Disney misinterpreted its success was because it was computer-animated. The Princess and the Frog was good but Tangled overall story was better. That’s why I feel Tangled did better.

But good-golly, does this mean the hand-drawn movies we’ll be seeing is Spongebob 2 and Phineas and Ferb? Come on, Disney.