Comments on: Is Hand-Drawn Animation Dead?

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 15:59:00 +0000

In reply to voicetek20. How to train your dragon 2 actually sold well internationally speaking.

By: Albert Chao

Albert Chao — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:47:00 +0000

No matter how good CGI films may be, hand-drawn animation will always be the fucking best! If we’re talking just the movies themselves, both mediums can provide you some real fun and entertainment, but as far as characters go, hand-drawn animation makes far better and more convincing ones with actual depth, emotion, and imagination.

By: Ryan O

Ryan O — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:51:00 +0000

I greatly believe the day will come when traditional animation will come back into play. I believe the reason why Disney and other studios have abandoned it to favour CGI animation is because in the past 15 years, traditional have become box office bombs, while CGI movies (most notably Pixar films) have been blockbusters. As much as love CGI animation, I’m not sure if it’ll hold the torch forever. There may be a time when audience is so desperate to see traditional come back, that they’ll pay to see any story the studios come up with.

One thing I would like to see happen is mixture of traditional and CGI. Imagine what can be done with that.

By: Aliscen Khaw

Aliscen Khaw — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:19:00 +0000

In reply to Nathan Kreuger.

I don’t really think its true since a lot of tv animation are starting to utilize more 3d and disney and pixar are making a lot from 3d. And as for the nut job and legends of Oz……those are horrible comparisons. Other studios have their 1st debut films and the renders and animation are at least industrial standard(ice age, despicable me).And HTTYD2 doing well overseas, so after it has been released everywhere,it will reach the 5 million mark or go over.

By: Nathan Kreuger

Nathan Kreuger — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 01:34:00 +0000

In reply to Aliscen Khaw. I honestly think that will come sooner rather than later. The films released this year haven't exactly broken any box office record. Both of dreamworks films (HTTYD2 and MB&S) have become a financial problem. Theres also The Nut Job and Legends of Oz both of which were so critically panned that they've already faded into obscurity. I think the question at this point is, how long does 3d animation have before its concidered a "dead art"?

By: Animaniac

Animaniac — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:43:00 +0000

I find it really sad that 2D animation is already considered a lost art, or ‘dead’. I mean, THIS is where it all began! 2D drawings and model sheet are the foundation of everything!! Every CGI movie starts on a piece of paper. The look of a film, the style is visualized in the visual arts department, characters are designed, their antics, their looks, the shape of their eyes, ears, noses, bodies … I don’t mean to sound like Mrs. Know-it-all, but I really wanna emphasize that even if the fully hand-drawn movies might be deceasing, every high-profile 3D animation movie starts out ‘2D’, so there’s still hope for everyone who wants to work in this field. And don’t even get me started on all the possibilities of Meander, the program Disney invented and used while doing Paperman!!! This will be the perfect combo of the visual depths of 3D and the expressional strength of 2D. I even heard they plan to use this technique on Moana, which will come out 2018, I think. I mean how cool would that be?? A full-time motion picture with this stunning new design?
So, bottom line: I don’t think 2D animation will ever ‘be dead’, it’ll just change it’s appearance and evolve and we animation freaks have to adapt to it’s change and be open for new opportunities! (: (Wow that sounded clever.)

By: hakunamatata

hakunamatata — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:45:00 +0000

In reply to Sebastian. Oh, what? The animation in Frozen is the best I've seen in any 3D movie. In blu-ray, its stunning.

By: Haley TheRadiant

Haley TheRadiant — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:43:00 +0000

I hope its not dead!! I mean I love 3d and I love 2d too!! Both different but can both be beautiful!

By: Míriam

Míriam — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 07:00:00 +0000

In reply to voicetek20.

I totally agree, story and characters are the core of any movie. When it comes to animation, I also think prestige of the studio plays an important role. I think Princess and the Frog didn’t do so well because for almost 10 years Disney had produced films of really questionable quality, so people didn’t expect much anymore (I remember I myself only got excited with the idea of watching a Disney movie in the theater instead of waiting to see it on tv or whatever again after Tangled). On the other hand, Pixar was in such a powerful momentum, where it seemed that everything they touched turned into gold that everyone would wait impatiently every year for the new Pixar film. We didn’t event have to wonder if it would be good, we knew it!

Bottom line, studious have their ups and downs, and that definitely influence the following movie as well.

By: JK Riki

JK Riki — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 02:50:00 +0000

In reply to voicetek20. Hear hear. Great post, I very much agree. The stories (and characters) are what drive films to become classics, not how they are made. And you're very right, later Disney films in 2D were seriously lacking in that department. It's not any surprise, really, that they didn't do as well as those films rooted in such depth and truth like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and farther back things such as Snow White.