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According to The Digital Bits (reporting news posted elsewhere), the bigwigs at Di$ney have taken the decision to axe traditional 2-D animation in favour of computerised 3-D animation. This comes on top of rumours that the House of Mouse was planning to remake its classic animated features, such as Pinocchio in CG to appeal to today`s youth.

Personally I hope somebody thaws Walt out and he rips Michael Eisner`s head off in a fit of righteous zombie indignation.

J Mark Oates

I`d second that emotion.

Given the performances of Treasure planet and Atlantis, can you blame them? When everything that pixar churns out goes straight to the top of the charts. Which, personally, i feel is a little unfair. Sure, Bug`s, toy story, finding nemo look good, but what makes them so bloody entertaining is the characters and good old-fashioned story telling.

Never having been a fan of Disney`s 2d animation, this doesn`t bother me much. On a related note however, is it just me or is at least half of Disney`s output sequels to earlier stuff?

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personally i think lilo & stitch is the best disney film ever & thats 2d (did very well to)

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For me, the best disney films were the classics like Snow White, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmations, Peter Pan. CGI can never come close to the brilliant traditional animation present in these films. There is no substitute for hand drawn animation.

Take Hayao Miyazaki`s (Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro etc) drawings for example, computer CGI can never recreate an artists work. :)

It`s not the 2D animation they need to get rid off, its the scriptwriters!!!

Making CG animation ain`t going to make a scrap of difference if the story doesn`t hold up, I mean look at Final Fantasy!!!

Di$ney gave up on good-old-fashioned storytelling before Uncle Walt was cold in the ground (either way). The whole studio has been run on committee lines since 1966, not least in the scriptwriting department. The reason the Pixar stuff has been so successful is because Pixar have developed the projects from the word go rather than getting input from the House of Mouse. Look at the truly crap output of the seventies. When the studio brought Aladdin out, it looked like finally some sense was coming back, but the last couple of years has seen some genuinely abysmal output from the studio. The fault isn`t that of the animators, it`s the PTB`s choices of material. I mean - Treasure Island??? And then sci-fi-ing it up? The very idea sounds Battle Of The Planets cheesy!

I think what appalls me more than anything is that Eisner and his cronies reckon today`s kids are so f*cking stupid they can`t appreciate the classic animation. And possibly even more appalling is the possibility they might be right.

J Mark Oates

"I mean - Treasure Island??? And then sci-fi-ing it up? The very idea sounds Battle Of The Planets cheesy!"

Not being a fan of Disney`s recent output, with all the straight to DVD sequels squeezing the cash out of Walt-fearing parents, I was a bit iffy about seeing Treasure Planet but it`s actually very good IMHO.
If you liked Titan AE (which I did) then you should really like this one too.

It`s bizarrely designed film (as if techology has moved on several thousand years from the peak pirate times but design has stayed exactly the same) but really interesting because of it.

It`s not Peter Pan of course, but worth £9.99 of anyone`s money in the Spalsh sale. :)

J.