Disney Renaissance had no competition.

[tweeb²]

In terms of the impact it made, it's almost importance to capture that enthusiasm again, in terms of quality, it could happen, as someone said earlier, different movies they made had different strong parts that the "Renaissance movies" seemed to unite, but I think that will become a reality at they become more experienced and recapture the momentum that was halted in 2004.

In the era of the Renaissance, western animation had a much bigger stigma than today, it had the "cartoon are for kids" one and also, the "animation is cinema, but it's an inferior type of cinema than live-action" one.

Plus, from the economic point of view they where expected to be too expensive, barely breaking even, on the plus side, as the tittle of this thread points out, I think that they had no competition, yes, Disney had Don Bluth Productions, but that was like two big budget and serious productions every two or three years or so, along with movie versions of the Care Bears or My Little Pony, things that where in there, only with one purpose in mind: to sell toys. And yes, Disney and Don Bluth also had interest in selling merchandise but......it is obvious that the main goal was to make a movie that could sell for itself in the first place.

Nowadays, western animated movies, no matter the name of the company behind them, have removed the second stigma, and seem to be in the way to remove the first one, also they are very well known to make a lot of money as technology became cheaper and they reached wider audiences with studios like Pixar and moved a bit away from the "Disney musical formula", that was overused in the 90's by everyone.

There is another good point to make I think. In terms of raw passion that was put into them, it's not the same when you are the only ones wanting to make a statement about how underappreciated animation is, at a time when Disney was almost gone as a company, and Don Bluth wanted to prove that movies could be really dramatic and serious while being for kids. I don't mean to say that there is no passion at all in the industry right now,but it's not the same when it is a standard and the guys working there take the things that the 90's generation of animators fought for, for granted.

Also both studios almost had a monopoly in terms of talented people in the animated movie business, if you where a really talented artist there was a huge chance of you working at Pixar, Disney, Bluth, WB Animation or Dreamworks at the end of de decade, and they where all making a movie every two years or so, except Disney that made one every year, and they where the exception to the rule at the time.

[thelittleursula]

Long gone are the days of Home on the Range and Chicken Little.

* Crosses Fingers *

* Touches wood *

* Avoids walking underneath ladders *

[Musical Master]

Long gone are the days of Home on the Range and Chicken Little.

* Crosses Fingers *

* Touches wood *

* Avoids walking underneath ladders *

Exactly.

Anything that keeps us from coming back to that god-awful era of Disney movies the better.

[blackcauldron85]

I thought this was an interesting quote from Peter Schneider regarding why Disney put out so many movies in this era.
(It's pop-up #2 (in blue) if you're looking for it in the article.)

https://www.vulture.com/article/an-oral ... roove.html

“Today, looking back, what was it that made us come up with this ridiculous schedule of one [movie] a year, two a year?” wonders Schneider. “I look back on Jeffrey, I look back on being pushed so hard to maintain the schedule because of financial needs for the studio. As they took each of the old movie to video cassette, you had to replace them with something. It’s all about stock gain, and growth, and all that corporate speak. We all just bought into the fact that we were important.”