Chicken Little....

[Andy]

Ok i've been wondering this for afew days now.......this may be a stupid question if so then im sorry...

But, will Chicken Little be a "Walt Disney Classics" or will it be something else since they will be in CGI now?

As i said im sorry if that sounds silly.....but yeh!

[Jack]

I've been wondering the same thing. Nobody knows for sure yet, and I imagine it will stay that way until right around its release. I'm pretty sure they will include it as an "Animated Classic" though. It may be a different kind of animation, but its still being done by their feature animation department, and being released theatrically - qualities which constitute all the other ACs.

[toonaspie]

I've been wondering the same thing. Nobody knows for sure yet, and I imagine it will stay that way until right around its release. I'm pretty sure they will include it as an "Animated Classic" though. It may be a different kind of animation, but its still being done by their feature animation department, and being released theatrically - qualities which constitute all the other ACs.

That's insane or I'm just confused. I thought they closed up feature animation for good and moved the good to keep artists to some CGI building. So technically it's not a feature animation department but just a CGI department, right?

[Jack]

That's insane or I'm just confused. I thought they closed up feature animation for good and moved the good to keep artists to some CGI building. So technically it's not a feature animation department but just a CGI department, right?

Well, formerly "Feature Animation" constituted the main division for traditionally animated theatrical releases. Since they stopped traditional animation, they put any artists that stayed with them from FA to work on the computer, and hired new ones, and renamed the division "Walt Disney Animation", or something of the sort. So no, its technically not "Feature Animation" anymore, but the division serves the same general purpose and features a lot of talent that was there previously.

One may argue that's reason enough for Disney to not include CL as an "Animated Classic", but I doubt they'd differeniate from the rest for a reason that has to do with technical devisions of the studio. The AC list is basically a resume of Disney's animated films released theatrically (excluding the sequels done by the DTV department), and CL fits into that.

[Lars Vermundsberget]

They might use the word "classic" to continue the tradition, but by now, in my opinion, we've had the end of a chapter.