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[Loxley]

Looks like Glen Keane saw the writing on the wall when he left last year

 

[Tagg9]

Seriously, Disney... how could you?

 

[anaron]

ugh ugh UGH

 

[golem]

I eagerly await their kickstarter

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Ohwell they were always far far FAR inferior to hanna barbara when it comes to animation and art anyway.

Yeah, I'd take the horribly limited animation, simple art and bad comedy of HB over Disney's fluid masterpieces, rich visuals and compelling narratives any day of the week.

 

[tiggerkiddo]

Well darn, I always liked their hand drawn animated films. Here's hoping the public falls in love with them again...=/

 

[stressboy]

Ohwell they were always far far FAR inferior to hanna barbara when it comes to animation and art anyway.

Joke post?

 

[entremet]

Walt must be rolling in his cryo chamber.

 

[jett]

Cocksuckers.

 

[Alchemy]

Guess they had too many lunches with the LucasArts guys.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Be hilarious if the Star Wars movies bomb.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Disney gonna Disney.

 

[Loxley]

Those are all some of Disney's top animators

 

[Arsenal2022]

Incredible shame, hand drawn animation has an amazing visual quality to it, and is something that should be protected.

 

[Gonzo The Great]

Don't worry guys, Finding Dory will redeem Disney.

Guys... guys?

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

The saddest thing is, when I was a kid, I dreamed of working for Disney when I grew up, to work on animated films done in the classic style like I'd seen in so many documentaries and trips to Walt Disney World.

It's depressing to know that if I'd spent those years pursuing that dream, I'd probably be unemployed right now.

 

[Stumpokapow]

What were the hand-drawn animators working on these days?

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

What a sad day. That's my childhood. I love some of the Pixar films, but the Disney classics are everything to me. Cell animation is such an amazing art form. I don't understand why it's on decline. It's the same with Japan.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Company should just rename itself Pixarvelucasfilm at this point.

 

[entremet]

The saddest thing is, when I was a kid, I dreamed of working for Disney when I grew up, to work on animated films done in the classic style like I'd seen in so many documentaries and trips to Walt Disney World.

It's depressing to know that if I'd spent those years pursuing that dream, I'd probably be unemployed right now.

Same. I saw the writing on the wall when Pixar started succeeding.

 

[Flying Toaster]

What were the hand-drawn animators working on these days?

I hate to say it but this.

Honestly what projects were they working on?

 

[shira]

Those are all some of Disney's top animators

Go to Korea or Asia and get a team for half the price.

 

[Trin]

I like some of the CG films, but the hand drawn classics have unparalleled charm. I guess I feel that way because it's a part of my childhood, but the kids of today are a new market. Disney is a business, blah blah blah

 

[Empty]

that's very sad to hear.

but yeah i'm curious as to what these people were doing too.

 

[SneakyStephan]

ahahah

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QtsPwQxsUo
Hahaha indeed.

Disney was amateur hour in the 40-50s in comparison.

 

[RSLAEV]

I figured hand drawn animation was dead at Disney when Shawn Keller and Andreas Deja bounced :/


No company wants to pay for hand drawn animation anymore-the artists have too much control. 3D animation is a lot like live action so non-animators and execs can butt in with their input and feel a sense of ownership (my own personal conspiracy theory)

 

[gdt]

I like some of the CG films, but the hand drawn classics have unparalleled charm. I guess I feel that way because it's a part of my childhood, but the kids of today are a new market. Disney is a business, blah blah blah

Dat chopiness/cinamaticness.

 

[Tagg9]

What were the hand-drawn animators working on these days?

I heard that a fair amount of pre-production work went into Frozen (Snow Queen) before it was converted to a 3D project.

I was also under the impression that Ron Clements and John Musker were spearheading a new 2D fable.

 

[Data West]

I hate to say it but this.

Honestly what projects were they working on?

 

[Zhengi]

Definitely sad news. There is just this quality to drawn animation that just can't be replicated. I hope Disney comes to its senses and doesn't completely eliminate all hand drawn animations.

 

[Exterminieren]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QtsPwQxsUo
Hahaha indeed.

Disney was amateur hour in the 40-50s in comparison.

Those shitty backgrounds.
That limited animation.
All that off-model.

Meanwhile in the 50s, even ignoring prestige projects like Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, Disney was putting out stylised little masterpieces like Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom.

Like Tom and Jerry all you want, but the shittiness and cheapness of Hanna Barbera's animation is notorious for a damned good reason.

What were the hand-drawn animators working on these days?

Clements and Musker are rumoured to be working on either a Paperman-style feature utilising 2D animators or just a straight 2D animation, and both Frozen and Big Hero Six spent at least some of their development as 2D projects.

 

[Nokterian]

Disney killing everything in these couple of weeks i love handdraw animation a very big loss and i hope those people get back somewhere on there feet

 

[PowderedToast]

yeah, we had been given films relatively recently. the princess frog was '09 and winnie the pooh was '11 - i still believed we were going to get more, just at a diminished rate.

this is incredibly sad. fuck

 

[Acorn]

Sad day. I still remember seeing the animators at work when I was at disney world.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Fuck. Really? =(

I thought Lucasarts was bad.. and then I thought the layoffs at ILM were bad. And now this has to happen.

='(

 

[Data West]

General Disney hand-drawn nostalgia?

The Goofy 'How To' shorts, IMO, are my favorite Disney thing ever. Over the movies, over other popular shorts, other cartoon series. I always thought the Warner stuff was funnier except when it came to those.

 

[Dan]

After spending billions on Marvel and then billions more on Star Wars, this was inevitable.

They have a clear direction where they want to go as a company.


This SUCKS.

Yup. It's depressing. Especially when WDFA's 2014 movie is Marvel's Big Hero 6.

 

[jdl]

disney continues to prove its upper management is a soulless machine.

 

[Loxley]

Oh God fucking damn it ;_;

 

[qindarka]

Don't think that they were working on Paperman or any other major project. Still a pity they lost their jobs.

Also has nothing to do with Star Wars or Marvel. Disney are still producing animated films at the same rate; its just a matter of CG dominance.

 

[muu]

So is there no interest in big-budget 2D productions these days? Or is it more the difficulty in having enough talent to produce a theatrical presentation within an arbitrary deadline? I'd suppose 3D art is far easier to brute force than 2D when it's to the caliber that they wanted out of box-office stuff.

 

[sky]

Those are all some of Disney's top animators

Sad news for sure. But I can't say it's unexpected... just the sad state of things :/.

I remember when I was a kid, going on a "behind the scenes" tour at disney animation, and meeting Alex Kupershmidt.
He gave us a little talk, and flipped some animation he was working on. So awesome!

 

[Femmeworth]

What were the hand-drawn animators working on these days?

Some of them did work on the CG movies.

 

[Lynd7]

I was wanting an original 2D animation with 3D stereoscopic visuals. I think that the effect is really cool with the 2D stuff, and could of lent the visuals a new spark for audiences.

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

Dat chopiness/cinamaticness.

I know right? Should be 3D/48fps.

 

[Baskcm]

God damn it screw you Disney, there goes most of my childhood.

 

[thuway]

Sony time to hire some folks.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Don't think that they were working on Paperman or any other major project. Still a pity they lost their jobs.

Also has nothing to do with Star Wars or Marvel. Disney are still producing animated films at the same rate; its just a matter of CG dominance.

You sure? They just spent 8 billion dollars over the last few years. They're making a lot of money, yes, but an 8 billion dollar expenditure is still a good reason, financially, to see what/where you can make cuts.

They cut redundant departments at Lucasfilm. Now they're cutting hand-drawn animation at Disney. Why? Because their focus going forward doesn't allow for hand-drawn animation, or Lucasfilm produced video games and animated shows.

I think it's probably a blend of reasons, not just one loud, boldfaced, underlined reason.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Well fuck.

Yeah. I think this proves that the Lucasarts shutdown was not a Lucas thing.

Something is up.

 

[Dachande]

Fuck you Disney.

The best thing would be if they all united together to form a new animation studio, perhaps with working from home or something, and making a go of it that way. I'd kickstarter a short film.

Too good to actually happen in the real world though.