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Disney Duster wrote:If it was, or even if it wasn't the same boy, anyone know how to search for, or present to us here now, the thread with that article? I read some of the article but never finished it.

Disney's Divinity wrote:Yeah, the article I read from a while back didn't have any mention of 3D films that I could remember. But it has been a long time since I read it, I could be wrong.

Q: What did Disney think of the finished product?

Roger Ross Williams: They loved it. I feel like they really embraced the film. We just had a screening on the Disney lot. They were really visibly moved because these are Owen’s heroes: the animators, the people who created the characters he lived in for so long. So when they saw how it affected him, and him expressing that to them, it was very, very touching. Owen has memorized the credits of all of these movies. That’s how he taught himself to read. So he knows the credits of any one person from Disney who comes up to him; all the animators, he knows their entire résumé. He’ll tell them every film they ever worked on, and they’re just floored. He knows these facts.

Sotiris wrote:I just learned that 2D animator and character designer Jin Kim left Disney. It's such a pity. Jin was my favorite character designer at WDAS. His amazing drawings was something I always looked forward to with every new CG film.

PatrickvD wrote:His work was OK at best. His design work for Big Hero 6 was generic crap.

PatrickvD wrote:The stuff on Zootopia was miles better.

Sotiris wrote:I just learned that 2D animator and character designer Jin Kim left Disney. It's such a pity. Jin was my favorite character designer at WDAS. His amazing drawings was something I always looked forward to with every new CG film.

Sotiris wrote:

PatrickvD wrote:His work was OK at best. His design work for Big Hero 6 was generic crap.

Character designers don't just do whatever they like. They execute the visual approach they directors want. And all of the Disney movies under Lasseter suffer from generic character designs, no matter the character designer, because that's what the studio's going for.

PatrickvD wrote:The stuff on Zootopia was miles better.

He worked on Zootopia too.

PatrickvD wrote:I always loved Joe Moshiers work for example. Do you know if Lasseter exiled him?

Q:​ The show is in hand­drawn animation, not CGI like the movie. Was going with that style a difficult decision to make?

Ryan Crego:​ In a sense, it was critical to my involvement on the show just because I really connect with pushed animation ­ and I think for TV it’s a little more freeing when you’ve got the ability to draw. With CG, there’s a limiting ability to that part of the production. When we’ve got our hand drawn world, we can go explore space…and we don’t really have to negotiate with production. And, stylistically, I really am a big fan of pushing cartoon expressions. We break the mold. We break the character model. We’re very expressive, and it’s a storyboard­driven show, so we rely on our board teams to bring those expressions in the vain of “SpongeBob” or “Adventure Time”.

Q: Some of DreamWorks’ series after a movie are done in CGI and some are hand-drawn. What were the reasons for opting for hand-drawn animation for this show?

Ryan Crego:​ The reasons were two-fold. First, I feel that we have much more creative freedom in the hand-drawn medium. In CG you have to build assets (characters, sets, props) which can be costly and time consuming by comparison. So if we want to explore a Candy Planet or and Alien Petting Zoo within an episode (like in “Get Me to the Gorg”), we are much more free to do it from a production standpoint. We would still need to design the location, but it can be done a little more easily. The second reason is purely about style. I’m really a fan of comedic 11-minute cartoons. I think what our Art Director, Sue Mondt, did with the cutout inspired backgrounds is magical. And I love the fact that we can push our character animation further in 2D.

JTurner wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDvVBUPtWO4

There's a pose test by Don Bluth and company related to the DRAGON'S LAIR movie. It looks really promising. I'm hopeful this movie does something for 2D animation.

DisneyEra wrote:

JTurner wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDvVBUPtWO4

There's a pose test by Don Bluth and company related to the DRAGON'S LAIR movie. It looks really promising. I'm hopeful this movie does something for 2D animation.

Imagine being a Disney Executive watching that! Don Bluth & 2D Animation, I wouldn't want to be in that room

unprincess wrote:there gonna have to do exceptionally well at the box office. Along with some major tentpole CGI films flopping badly. And even then they might not want to return to hand-drawn just out of spite.

JTurner wrote:

DisneyEra wrote: Imagine being a Disney Executive watching that! Don Bluth & 2D Animation, I wouldn't want to be in that room

Whoever said anything about Disney never doing hand drawn animation again? If movies like this do well, or even if movies like Klaus find their audience, executives may have second thoughts.