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D23ExpoVisitor25 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 4:18 pm Maybe the rumored hand-drawn animated BlueBeard movie at Walt Disney Animation Studios...

Disney's Divinity wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 1:35 am

D23ExpoVisitor25 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 4:18 pm Maybe the rumored hand-drawn animated BlueBeard movie at Walt Disney Animation Studios...

I hadn't heard anything about this? Hopefully true though.

Yeah, I hope Sergio finds a new home, preferably at WDAS.

But after many false starts and other projects utilizing his time, “Fixed” is actually in production. Like, right now. Sony Pictures Animation has partnered with Renegade Animation, a Glendale, California-based studio co-founded by Darrell Van Critters, a veteran of Warner Bros. Animation and Disney Animation (he was the original director on what would eventually become “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”), to finally bring Tartakovsky’s passion project to life.

“We’re doing a 2D animated rated-R movie. That is the golden ring that we’ve been after since we were in our early 20s,” Tartakovsky said. “We would never think. And on top of that, it’s well-animated.” Tartakovsky said he was looking at scenes that evoked Disney’s classic “Lady and the Tramp” (while maintaining that the level of animation isn’t quite to Disney because nothing is.) “There’s feelings of that in there,” Tartakovsky said. In describing “Fixed,” Tartakovsky said: “It’s raunchy but it’s got character and it’s cartoony. And it’s got heart. The humor isn’t pop culture humor. That’s the biggest thing. There’s no Kardashian jokes. There’s none of that. It’s all character humor. That’s what makes it much more unique and stand out. It feels like nothing else.”

While “Fixed” doesn’t have a release date yet, it’s close enough for Tartakovsky. “I’m beyond excited about it. It’s 12 years in the making,” Tartakovsky said. And the only place he could have made it was Sony Pictures Animation.

Don Hall: And it’s just pure animation, right? That’s why I love working in this medium. It’s all I’ve ever really wanted to do. We kept talking about the carpet in Aladdin, and look at what they did. Look what amazing animators could do with a rectangle and some tassels, you know? And CG has got to the point now where you really can do anything. We did some 2D hand drawn iterations of Splat to kind of learn about its locomotion, and then they were able to transfer that into the CG.

Roy Conli: What I love about what’s happening with Disney Animation, particularly in the CG realm, is you could feel that DNA of the hand drawn. In this film, I think there was a real focus on visiting an older style, a much broader style. And the wonder with CG is that you can do that, but then you can get those incredibly intimate scenes where the emotion plays so specifically and tightly. It’s beautiful.

PatrickvD wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 11:01 amWhat I don’t understand is why hand drawn is seen as this super risky and controversial medium. Strange World is one of Disney’s biggest bombs ever. Worse in terms of ticket sales than Home on the Range, Treasure Planet and The Black Cauldron. No one seems to blame that on CG.

Sotiris wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 2:52 pm

PatrickvD wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 11:01 amWhat I don’t understand is why hand drawn is seen as this super risky and controversial medium. Strange World is one of Disney’s biggest bombs ever. Worse in terms of ticket sales than Home on the Range, Treasure Planet and The Black Cauldron. No one seems to blame that on CG.

There have been a lot of CG-animated flops and there will be many more in the future and no one is ever going to blame the medium or question the audience's interest in it. Why? Because for most people newer technology is always better. Therefore, in people's (and the industry's) mind, the newer, cutting-edge, "superior" medium of computer animation can't possibly be the reason a movie underperforms.

James Baxter wrote: A character test that I animated about 5 years ago.

James Baxter wrote: Pencil test for two shots (the only 2) that I animated for Wolfwalkers.

Despite its contemporary humor, “Fixed” actually celebrates the glories of 2D hand-drawn animation.

“It has become a lost art. These days, everything is computer-generated. It was my dream to do this,” he says, calling it a love letter to Bugs Bunny or Tex Avery, or even 1950s Disney. Murdocca added:

“It became this homage. We were able to secure animators we never thought we would be able to get. That’s when it became very exciting.”