Rumpelstiltskin wrote:I heard that Eisner once planned to release all the old Disney classics (like Pinocchio and Snow White) as 3D movies, even if I don't know if the rumors are correct or if he in that case was serious.
Yeah, the links confirms that Eisner had some ideas not everybody was too excited with.
Personally, I think the more variation it is in animation, the better. Handdrawn, CGI and stop motion. Photorealistic and non-photorealistic. Actual animation or performance capture.
"Then again, certain realistic human characters in Disney films, especially from the fairy tale ones, might be too human for comfort...or just look so darn cool, or we can't even tell it's not real actors because they're so realsitically designed and rendered."
If someone should make a photorealistic movie about Disney characters that already looks pretty human, like Ariel or Belle or whoever, they would have to go through the same process as Tintin does now when Spielberg and Jackson is making a movie about the comic. But it doesn't mean they would have to look completley like normal humans. They could still be a little stylized, like in Arthur and the Minimoys or Kaena: The Prophecy. And what if they are gonna make Elfquest into a live action movie? The elves are closer to the typical disney look than real humans; small mouth and noses, big eyes and so on. But that's how they will have to look in the movie as well, so they has to be created on computers anyway. Which I don't find that creepy at all.
And, instead of just "un-tooning" human characters, I would liked to see what King Louie from The Jungle Book looked like as a photorealistic person.
The current state of CGI lighting tools means that any new animation of Jessica, whether strictly toon (vector/drawing), or 3D modeled, means she will have more dimension than the steel-wool optical overprint could do in the first feature.
However, if she is not well animated (bad motion performance, poorly edited motion performance, stiff and unyielding), no lighting or CGI tricks will save her.
Lasseter and company have the tools and talented artists - do they have corporate green light to tackle Jessica? We shall see!
