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[Zilch]

They should do that for all their movies then

Uh, uncanny valley?

 

[Ryck]

:lol This is pretty blatant. Even Rob Liefeld is shaking his head.

Let's not go crazy.



Still wow...

 

[DanteFox]

The music's awesome. ^_^

 

[Prax]

Wow, that's crazy! I never knew!


I actually hate Snow White probably BECAUSE of its rotosoping.
It just looks messed up to me (maybe because it sticks out so much from the other unrotoscoped scenes).

This reminds me abotu Disney's upcoming 2D animation! I'm excited for it!

 

[half a moon]

http://www.prodisney.ru/index.php?page=clones.php

 

[jett]

:lol This isn't really new, I had read about Robin Hood reusing animation routines, although I had never seen a comparison video before. Robin Hood always looked pretty low-budget to me, but this is kind of ridiculous.

 

[Askia47]

Damn that sucks alot. Disappointing.

 

[jett]

Fun Fact: The first GOOD handdrawn Disney movie since Lion King comes out at the end of 2009! It's being made by the directors of Aladdin and Little Mermaid with John Lasseter (Pixars head dude) overseeing it.

Eh? From a technical point of view ALL of Disney's post-Lion King movies have had high production values...well maybe Home on the Range not so much. Even the much-maligned Treasure Planet has really impressive animation.

We have yet to see if The Frog and The Princess is any good as a film.

 

[Arthrus]

They should do that for all their movies then

Especially the ones with dancing cats

 

[GCX]

Eh? From a technical point of view ALL of Disney's post-Lion King movies have had high production values...well maybe Home on the Range not so much. Even the much-maligned Treasure Planet has really impressive animation.

Agreed. If we're talking about production values, it really doesn't get better than this for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnh-sxaBwk

 

[Goukipoo]

Kimba says hello.

 

[mr jones]

Agreed. If we're talking about production values, it really doesn't get better than this for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnh-sxaBwk

Yeah, I remember how that intro gave me the same chills as The Lion King's intro did. The overall movie didn't vibe with me as much as TLK, but THoND was still an excellent production piece.

 

[Rorschach]

Kimba says hello.

Yeah, at least in the OP's video they're ripping themselves off. :\

 

[Gilgamesh]

Thread title is very misleading. I came in here expecting my childhood to be shattered but all I got was useless knowledge that the shitty Robin Hood movie reuses a bunch of animation from the Jungle Book. As for the other movies, the Aristocats was like two 3 second clips and Beauty and the Beast is clearly an homage.

Mind not blown.

 

[Cyan]

The Winnie the Pooh ones make me sad.

 

[Timbuktu]

It makes me think that it would be a lot easier for guys like Pixar and Dreamworks to recycle animations now though, when you can change the framing and viewpoint, tweaking here and there to make it harder to notice.

 

[Unknown One]

I wonder why Disney haven't animated a movie in a while :lol

 

[LCfiner]

pretty blatant. the smallest of hand gestures are copied in some of those scenes.

mind blown, pants soiled.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Huh...Though it isn't terribly surprising that Robin Hood is the biggest offender. That movie was such shit.

 

[Shinobix]

Naruto and Cowboy Bebop share an identical fighting scene iirc

 

[Mashing]

Agreed. If we're talking about production values, it really doesn't get better than this for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnh-sxaBwk

Holy shit, that's some amazing animation.

 

[Cyan]

From the Liefield thread.

 

[MNC]

rotoscoping or not, it still looks very nice.

 

[Wollan]

My mind just melted.

 

[Fun Factor]

I feel betrayed

Think that is bad, I feel as if I was raped.

 

[unifin]

Huh...Though it isn't terribly surprising that Robin Hood is the biggest offender. That movie was such shit.

YOU SHUT THE HELL UP

 

[Branduil]

I hate the Xerox animation look Disney had in that era.

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

the thing that stands out the most from that video is how eye-poppingly gorgeous snow white's animation is.

I always hated the look of that movie.
Its like every 3rd frame is missing.

 

[AlternativeUlster]

This was done as a technique in the 1970s to save money (because after Walt and Roy died the company wanted to play it safe which was driving the company into bankruptcy).

Fun Fact: The first GOOD handdrawn Disney movie since Lion King comes out at the end of 2009! It's being made by the directors of Aladdin and Little Mermaid with John Lasseter (Pixars head dude) overseeing it.

Emperor's New Groove is easily the funniest Disney film and was made after the Lion King.

 

[pizzaguysrevenge]

I NEED HUNCHBACK IN BLU-RAY NOW!!!

Best fucking Disney movie ever.

 

[roosters93]

I don't care, it's actually kinda cool.

 

[Jake.]

my childhood is ruined.

 

[Jake.]

toad hall too!? motherfucker.

 

[VeritasVierge]

How old are some of you for your mind to be blown or even feel betrayed? I thought everyone knew this. Every animation studio does this. Even the guys at Pixar find ways to cut corners and save time by often reusing a previously made model and slightly modifying it to look like someone else. Rotoscoping to me is not that different then today's motion capture.

 

[Gantz]

Wow what a bunch of hacks. They're the Danny Elfmans of the animation world :lol

 

[Dali]

How old are some of you for your mind to be blown or even feel betrayed? I thought everyone knew this. Every animation studio does this. Even the guys at Pixar find ways to cut corners and save time by often reusing a previously made model and slightly modifying it to look like someone else. Rotoscoping to me is not that different then today's motion capture.

While I agree this is old as Jesus and shouldn't surprise anyone, I disagree with your comparison. When I heard the commentary on The Incredibles and found out almost every non-critical character in the movie was based on one or two models I was impressed, not disappointed. They made a few models and turned that into an entire cast of extras and minor roles. They weren't reusing old assets from other movies (although they probably do that too) which is the big difference here.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

 

[VeritasVierge]

While I agree this is old as Jesus and shouldn't surprise anyone, I disagree with your comparison. When I heard the commentary on The Incredibles and found out almost every non-critical character in the movie was based on one or two models I was impressed, not disappointed. They made a few models and turned that into an entire cast of extras and minor roles. They weren't reusing old assets from other movies (although they probably do that too) which is the big difference here.

Right but it's still cutting corners. Not as blatant for theatrical films but it's just a way to save time. I don't see any of them being worse then the other unless it was a blatant recycled character. It's not. Animation takes a long time and can be very tedious. I guess this model that were are seeing here is much more prevalent on TV budgets. Always got a chuckle out of old shows like the Smurfs with the backgrounds being the exact same picture of a forest as characters are moving for several episodes.

 

[CoilShot]

From my understanding a lot of animators do this to save time not just Disney. Most animators just retrace their work and make minor changes.

 

[darkwings]

Atleast Disney made good stuff back in the days (died after duck tales imo)

 

[Jake.]

How old are some of you for your mind to be blown or even feel betrayed? I thought everyone knew this. Every animation studio does this. Even the guys at Pixar find ways to cut corners and save time by often reusing a previously made model and slightly modifying it to look like someone else. Rotoscoping to me is not that different then today's motion capture.

i am 22 in a week and have never known of this (the video) before.

 

[GCX]

Atleast Disney made good stuff back in the days (died after duck tales imo)

So you think Disney animation died just months before the release of Beauty & the Beast?

Interesting theory.

 

[Zapages]

guys you have to see this that one of my showed:

cowboy Bebop and Naruto:

 

[Gallbaro]

guys you have to see this that one of my showed:

cowboy Bebop and Naruto:

GAF is now conflicted.

 

[Skittleguy]

Well, that one is from a Canadian WWII propaganda film...

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

guys you have to see this that one of my showed:

cowboy Bebop and Naruto:

That is for tv, sorta makes it less bad.

 

[gkryhewy]

The only one that might bother me is the sleeping beauty / beauty and the beast dancing bit, but given the iconic nature of the two scenes, I'd call that more an homage.

 

[zombieshavebrains]

People are losing their childhood because Disney wanted to keep production costs down and no one noticed till now?

 

[Guzim]

People are losing their childhood because Disney wanted to keep production costs down and no one noticed till now?

Seriously, I learned this from The Simpsons episode The Front.

 

[jenov4]

This thread just made me realize how awesome 2D animation is, and how much I miss it compared to all the CG stuff that's out there right now.