First appearing in the Wall Street Journal, an interesting short article by respected animation historian John Canemaker about Disney’s decision to abandon hand-drawn feature animation is now online. It really gets to the point of the issue, commenting that -
It implies on the part of management disrespect for the studio’s history and a lamentable lack of flexibility and vision.
Ultimately, Walt -an instinctive showman- knew that audiences are attracted not by technology alone, but by engaging stories and appealing characters. The Disney studio’s recent string of expensive hand-drawn feature failures, such as “Treasure Planet,” “Brother Bear” and “Home on the Range,” were the result of poor story choices and corporate meddling in the creative process, not the wrong kind of animation.
Read the full article here.
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