Hand-Drawn Animation Dead at Disney

[DancingCrab]

I have heard rumors that the Walt Disney company is working on an animated movie of the musical WICKED. I have even seen animated bits of Defying gravity

Universal owns the film rights to Wicked. There is ZERO truth to that rumor you heard. When a film gets made, it will be a live action movie done by Universal.

There is a lot of fan art out there imagining a Disney animated Wicked, some of it even by people who have worked for Disney, but that's still all it is, fan art.

[TsWade2]

I have heard rumors that the Walt Disney company is working on an animated movie of the musical WICKED. I have even seen animated bits of Defying gravity

Universal owns the film rights to Wicked. There is ZERO truth to that rumor you heard. When a film gets made, it will be a live action movie done by Universal.

There is a lot of fan art out there imagining a Disney animated Wicked, some of it even by people who have worked for Disney, but that's still all it is, fan art.

I'm afraid DancingCrab is right. But in the meantime, is there suppose to be another 2D hand drawn/CGI short that comes with Big Hero 6?

[Rob DisneyLover]

http://fairytalenewsblog.blogspot.nl/20 ... d.html?m=1

[disneyprincess11]

http://fairytalenewsblog.blogspot.nl/20 ... d.html?m=1

That was later confirmed fake by its official Tumblr page.

[unprincess]

Disney already made an animated version of Wicked. But they called it Frozen instead.

[TsWade2]

Disney already made an animated version of Wicked. But they called it Frozen instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zSHz7Thvbc

[Warm Regards]

Chris Buck briefly mentions hand drawn being used in Frozen.

Despite being computer generated Frozen remains grounded in the tradition of hand-draw animation. “It’s Disney’s legacy,” observes Chris Buck. “We still have quite a few of our hand-drawn animators there and CG guys. I come from hand-drawn too. In the animation dailies room we would stop on a frame when a CG animator was showing his scene and Mark [Empey] would go over it and give a wonderful hand-drawn appeal to the poses. There’s the combination of that in all of the animation where you get that feeling of the hand-drawn and then we do have some hand-drawn effects that are in the movie too. It’s a nice blend in the whole thing.”

Source: http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2014/03/s ... about.html

[Musical Master]

Chris Buck briefly mentions hand drawn being used in Frozen.

Despite being computer generated Frozen remains grounded in the tradition of hand-draw animation. “It’s Disney’s legacy,” observes Chris Buck. “We still have quite a few of our hand-drawn animators there and CG guys. I come from hand-drawn too. In the animation dailies room we would stop on a frame when a CG animator was showing his scene and Mark [Empey] would go over it and give a wonderful hand-drawn appeal to the poses. There’s the combination of that in all of the animation where you get that feeling of the hand-drawn and then we do have some hand-drawn effects that are in the movie too. It’s a nice blend in the whole thing.”

Source: http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2014/03/s ... about.html

It's nice to know that 2-D is used in the CG films for the animation and it's effects. Always nice to hear something like that.

[TsWade2]

Chris Buck briefly mentions hand drawn being used in Frozen.
Source: http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2014/03/s ... about.html

It's nice to know that 2-D is used in the CG films for the animation and it's effects. Always nice to hear something like that.

Well, I suppose it's very nice to hear that positive statement. Better than Bob Iger.

[Jules]

... and then we do have some hand-drawn effects that are in the movie too. It’s a nice blend in the whole thing.”

He's mentioned this before. I wish he'd point out where the hand-drawn effects were used. I'd love to check them out when I get the blu-ray.

[Sotiris]

It's been dead in the U.S for quite some time, really.


Source: https://twitter.com/TomBancroft1/status ... 3907928064

[estefan]

When he posted that on his Facebook page, Bancroft said he was joking.

[Warm Regards]

But honestly, Frozen's success does implicate further CG pictures from America as a whole. I personally think it naive to hope Disney will use Frozen's +$1 billion revenue to make another hand drawn film that may or may not profit. (Princess and the Frog is considered a bomb so I honestly don't know what a "good" return is anymore.) I also think it silly that anyone else aside from indie artists will want to take risks because an animated film proved high grossing.

No, they (Disney and other studios) will play the safe route by replicating Frozen with a few tweaks here and there because so far it has proven profitable. Primarily it's animation medium.

[unprincess]

2d will continue to eek out a meager(albeit more creative) existence in the indie & foreign circuits(see The Congress).

Does Bancroft still work at Disney? (I forget who's still there)

[MovieMan995]

2d will continue to eek out a meager(albeit more creative) existence in the indie & foreign circuits(see The Congress).

Does Bancroft still work at Disney? (I forget who's still there)

I believe he left Disney in 2000.

[TsWade2]

When he posted that on his Facebook page, Bancroft said he was joking.

Oh! And I almost freak out on that. Thanks for telling that, estefan.

And as for you, Sotiris, you know better than that.

[estefan]

I think Peanuts might have a bigger impact on the animation industry than we might expect. That movie is certain to be a massive hit and I think its success would show that audiences are open to seeing an animated movie that doesn't have the three-dimensional look of other computer-animated features.

[TsWade2]

This better be a early April Fool joke. Sometimes, I'm sick and tired of people saying hand drawn is dead this and hand drawn is dead that. I'm sick of it. If Bob Iger should of make a better statement about hand drawn animation and if The Princess & the Frog should of been a box office hit, none of this controversy ever happened. If I hear another word about hand drawn is dead again, will have to deal with me.

[Kyle]

That's not even a prank, its sarcasm.

[TsWade2]

That's not even a prank, its sarcasm.

So, just because he's being sarcastic, that means what he said is not true?