2-D animation is coming back! No, really. It is. John Lasseter had a fit when he came on-board at Disney & found out that they'd shut down their traditional animation studios in favor of solely doing 3-D stuff, so he re-hired some animators and put them to work on a new project. I think "The Frog Princess" (or whatever they're calling the movie set in New Orleans now) is going to be the next movie done the "old-fashioned" way. So 2-D animation isn't really dead.
Can I just say that I'm actually really happy with the way "Uncle John" (as some Disney fans are referring to him) has been working with Disney feature animation? He yanked the concept for Toy Story 3, shelved some really bad ideas and tweaked some good ones to make them even better. "Uncle John" is saving animation as we've always known it - good stories, a lot of heart and semi-life-like drawing :)
Leave it to me to discuss animation-type stuff... But yes, I'd be disturbed to see Hollywood touch Paddington. I used to watch a show when I was younger that just had a narrator and some very basic animation of Paddington Bear, but it's just like the "updated" Winnie the Pooh. (Wasn't the 1960s version good enough? He was cute!!) Messing with a good thing always sucks.
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Can I just say that I'm actually really happy with the way "Uncle John" (as some Disney fans are referring to him) has been working with Disney feature animation? He yanked the concept for Toy Story 3, shelved some really bad ideas and tweaked some good ones to make them even better. "Uncle John" is saving animation as we've always known it - good stories, a lot of heart and semi-life-like drawing :)
Leave it to me to discuss animation-type stuff... But yes, I'd be disturbed to see Hollywood touch Paddington. I used to watch a show when I was younger that just had a narrator and some very basic animation of Paddington Bear, but it's just like the "updated" Winnie the Pooh. (Wasn't the 1960s version good enough? He was cute!!) Messing with a good thing always sucks.