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Well, a silent film just won Best Picture not too long ago. :wink:

Honestly, Bob Iger strikes me as a President who only makes decisions based on the shareholders. Say what you will about Michael Eisner (and believe me, I'm no fan of his, either), but he at least struck me as somebody with a bit more backbone and independent thought process, even if his board meetings were filled with yes-men.
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Lady Cluck wrote:I have a friend who works inside Disney. I got him to personally ask Bob Iger if there was ever any chance of a full hand drawn feature happening again, and he started cackling hysterically and thought he was making a joke. I'm 100% serious.

Hand drawn is considered a relic of the past with the advances in technology. I guess kind of like silent films used to be.

Sorry :(
Is this a joke?

If so, here's my joke.

TsWade2: Hey Bob! Will you let John Lasseter do another hand drawn movie?

Bob: No!

TsWade2: Please?

Bob: No!

TsWade2: I'll say you're better than Michael Eisner.

Bob: No! Hand drawn is dead! Deal with it, you nostalgic idiot!

TsWade2: All right! That's it! HIIIIIIYA! (Beating Bob Iger up.)

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Lady Cluck wrote:I have a friend who works inside Disney. I got him to personally ask Bob Iger if there was ever any chance of a full hand drawn feature happening again, and he started cackling hysterically and thought he was making a joke. I'm 100% serious.
When did this happen?
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Lady Cluck wrote:I have a friend who works inside Disney. I got him to personally ask Bob Iger if there was ever any chance of a full hand drawn feature happening again, and he started cackling hysterically and thought he was making a joke. I'm 100% serious.

Hand drawn is considered a relic of the past with the advances in technology. I guess kind of like silent films used to be.

Sorry :(
Hang on, that sounds a little too much like a certain scene in Spider-Man 2 when Peter Parker asks his boss, JJ Jameson, about a raise, but Jameson assumes he's making a joke. :roll:
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Lady Cluck wrote:I have a friend who works inside Disney. I got him to personally ask Bob Iger if there was ever any chance of a full hand drawn feature happening again, and he started cackling hysterically and thought he was making a joke. I'm 100% serious.

Hand drawn is considered a relic of the past with the advances in technology. I guess kind of like silent films used to be.

Sorry :(
...I'm sorry, I really am, but I have a hard time believing such a conversation happened. Call me a skeptic :shrug:.

The idea of Bob Iger cackling hysterically makes him on par with a Disney villain. :P
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Warm Regards wrote:
...I'm sorry, I really am, but I have a hard time believing such a conversation happened. Call me a skeptic :shrug:.

The idea of Bob Iger cackling hysterically makes him on par with a Disney villain. :P
I suppose my two-cents on this (two replies up) has no input? :roll:
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Warm Regards wrote:
Lady Cluck wrote:I have a friend who works inside Disney. I got him to personally ask Bob Iger if there was ever any chance of a full hand drawn feature happening again, and he started cackling hysterically and thought he was making a joke. I'm 100% serious.

Hand drawn is considered a relic of the past with the advances in technology. I guess kind of like silent films used to be.

Sorry :(
...I'm sorry, I really am, but I have a hard time believing such a conversation happened. Call me a skeptic :shrug:.

The idea of Bob Iger cackling hysterically makes him on par with a Disney villain. :P
Okay, I get the joke. :wave:
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Sotiris wrote:
Lady Cluck wrote:I have a friend who works inside Disney. I got him to personally ask Bob Iger if there was ever any chance of a full hand drawn feature happening again, and he started cackling hysterically and thought he was making a joke. I'm 100% serious.
When did this happen?
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Yeah it was a joke, but I expected Wade and Disney Jedi to believe it considering they treat Bob Iger like a cackling villain around here :lol:

The reality is he's done a lot of good for the company you love so much. The lack of hand drawn animation isn't a personal thing.
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Lady Cluck wrote:Yeah it was a joke, but I expected Wade and Disney Jedi to believe it considering they treat Bob Iger like a cackling villain around here :lol:

The reality is he's done a lot of good for the company you love so much. The lack of hand drawn animation isn't a personal thing.
That was a good one Lady. :lol:

In all seriousness, I would rather have the Bob Iger era of Disney over the last half of the Eisner regime though. Simply because atleast Iger did care about the company and that he did want the Animation Studios to be revitalized in one way or another.
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Yeah, I don't dislike Bob Iger specifically, mostly everyone at the top is to blame for the way things are. Tbh, if there was any one individual I don't like at Disney, it's probably John Lasseter, tbh. But I really don't like him in general and I've always found most of his films overrated (both Pixar and Disney films), so I guess that's to be expected. I'm sure he's alright on a personal level though, not that it matters because I'll never know him anyway. :P
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Disney's Divinity wrote:Yeah, I don't dislike Bob Iger specifically, mostly everyone at the top is to blame for the way things are. Tbh, if there was any one individual I don't like at Disney, it's probably John Lasseter, tbh. But I really don't like him in general and I've always found most of his films overrated (both Pixar and Disney films)

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Well, I'm sure Bob Iger is a great guy and all. I'm glad he brought back Mickey Mouse and friends out of that miserable clubhouse and got their own miniseries. But to be honest, I think he's doing a terrible job for bringing hand drawn animation. Especially, letting the veteran animators go.
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He is a business man, not an artist.

Quite frankly, it's not his job to keep hand-drawn animation going.
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TsWade2 wrote:Well, I'm sure Bob Iger is a great guy and all. I'm glad he brought back Mickey Mouse and friends out of that miserable clubhouse and got their own miniseries. But to be honest, I think he's doing a terrible job for bringing hand drawn animation. Especially, letting the veteran animators go.
But there is a good number of them in the studio still, and hand drawn animation is atleast still used in shorts in one way or another. I have heard from someone that there is another short film coming that also uses CG and hand drawn animation so I'm not worried at all.

Again I still perfer this era of Disney than Eisner's disasterous final years as CEO. Oh god... :huh:
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Musical Master wrote:
TsWade2 wrote:Well, I'm sure Bob Iger is a great guy and all. I'm glad he brought back Mickey Mouse and friends out of that miserable clubhouse and got their own miniseries. But to be honest, I think he's doing a terrible job for bringing hand drawn animation. Especially, letting the veteran animators go.
But there is a good number of them in the studio still, and hand drawn animation is atleast still used in shorts in one way or another. I have heard from someone that there is another short film coming that also uses CG and hand drawn animation so I'm not worried at all.

Again I still perfer this era of Disney than Eisner's disasterous final years as CEO. Oh god... :huh:
Okay. Fair point. Frankly, I like Michael Eisner until he killed hand drawn after Home On the Range. Here's what Fluttershy thinks of Michael Eisner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w2RgURDDXQ :P
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Besides, has everyone forgotten that Kathy Zielinski has come back to Disney from Dreamworks to work on Frozen? Not only is she a really good hand drawn animator but she is really good with computer animation as well.
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Musical Master wrote:Besides, has everyone forgotten that Kathy Zielinski has come back to Disney from Dreamworks to work on Frozen? Not only is she a really good hand drawn animator but she is really good with computer animation as well.
She has!? :o How do you know?
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Jules wrote:
Musical Master wrote:Besides, has everyone forgotten that Kathy Zielinski has come back to Disney from Dreamworks to work on Frozen? Not only is she a really good hand drawn animator but she is really good with computer animation as well.
She has!? :o How do you know?
It was in one of Clay Kaytis's tweets that Kathy was part of the animation crew on Frozen, so that's an indicator that she has returned to Disney. :D
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Musical Master wrote:
Jules wrote: She has!? :o How do you know?
It was in one of Clay Kaytis's tweets that Kathy was part of the animation crew on Frozen, so that's an indicator that she has returned to Disney. :D

You mean the woman who animated Frollo? I wonder which character she did some tests on here.
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