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DisneyJedi wrote:Well, Wreck-It Ralph did show that not all successful Disney films these days need to be princess/fairy tale-based.

atlanticaunderthesea wrote:Wow, I kind of always figured that, but never seen it written out like that. Really is true then I guess, there isn't any love lost between the two. Which is a shame, as he has a lot to give. And he formed a vast past of most people's childhoods as well.

Has he been allowed to work on the Aladdin show? He also helped with the reworking of The Little Mermaid songs as well didn't he?

I do miss him at Disney I have to say.

John Musker wrote:The medium with which you tell the story has changed over the years. I love 3D animation. I love hand drawing animation. Certainly, the big compelling emotionally evolving stories, wonderfully done in 3D. I like Brad Bird and John Lasseter. But I still draw myself since I do have a fond of certainly for this kind of magic trick, where you can take all this expressiveness and power of drawing and add the element of performance and time. I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms, film-making and writing and drawing and painting, to a certain extent even sculpting. It’s a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it’s such so rich and so varied and so expressive.

Sotiris wrote:This excerpt is from an interview Musker recently gave while doing press for the Mermaid Blu-ray. He clearly still has a soft spot for hand-drawn animation. I bet if it were up to him and Clements, Moana would have been a hand-drawn feature.

John Musker wrote:The medium with which you tell the story has changed over the years. I love 3D animation. I love hand drawing animation. Certainly, the big compelling emotionally evolving stories, wonderfully done in 3D. I like Brad Bird and John Lasseter. But I still draw myself since I do have a fond of certainly for this kind of magic trick, where you can take all this expressiveness and power of drawing and add the element of performance and time. I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms, film-making and writing and drawing and painting, to a certain extent even sculpting. It’s a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it’s such so rich and so varied and so expressive.

Source: http://blog.beliefnet.com/moviemom/2013 ... isney.html

Visual Development from Moana by Sue Nichols
http://pixiedust-and-broadwaylights.tum ... from-moana

disneyprincess11 wrote:The first concept art has been revealed!

Visual Development from Moana by Sue Nichols
http://pixiedust-and-broadwaylights.tum ... from-moana

disneyprincess11 wrote:The first concept art has been revealed!

Visual Development from Moana by Sue Nichols
http://pixiedust-and-broadwaylights.tum ... from-moana

DisneyEra wrote:but nothing for Giants. And considering what Frozen is going through on Tumblr I can see why.

disneyprincess11 wrote:

DisneyEra wrote:but nothing for Giants. And considering what Frozen is going through on Tumblr I can see why.

Well, we have the story:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/08/21/ ... ie-giants/

I guess they're still doing the story. And I mean it could be cancelled anytime

DisneyJedi wrote:And if Frozen does underperform, will that affect any other upcoming films?

DisneyEra wrote:

DisneyJedi wrote:And if Frozen does underperform, will that affect any other upcoming films?

Doubtful I say.

Big Hero 6 is a Marvel property, that's a go. Anything to do with Marvel obscure or not is worth the risk.

Zootopia is the one film WDAS is actually looking foward to. So much they announced it 3 years out! I'll never forget this quote:

"When Tangled director Byron Howard proposed a new animated film populated entirely by anthropomorphic animals, he said Lasseter “lifted me in the air like a baby Simba,” from The Lion King."

Moana, the only thing that can affect it is time, 5 years away, anything can change. But I think WDAS will stick with it for the long run, they have to much respect for Ron & John.

Warm Regards wrote:I sincerely hope Moana isn't a princess. We already have eleven in the lineup with two more on the way. I think a breather is needed before more are added. Like a decade at least. But knowing Disney...