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Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:40 am**

Awesome, I really hope this eventually sees the light of day!

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 12:47 pm**

Well, now Steve Hulett at The Animation Guild has confirmed it:

Yes, now that Blue Sky has broken it, I will confirm that Elves is back in development. I've talked to artists working on it.

See? I do occasionally cough a tid bit up. It just has to see the light of day someplace else first.

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:29 pm**

Yay! I'm excited for this!

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:02 pm**

It's staying in CGI, however. I think hand-drawn would have suited it well - that concept art is amazing! I love the nature-based elements of the elves.

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:07 am**

Neal wrote:It's staying in CGI, however.

Has this been confirmed?

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2010 9:32 am**

Well, Blue Sky didn't mention it with the other 2-D films - he acted like those were separate. And comments on both Blue Sky and TAG Blog said it was CGI. Not sure how reliable it is.

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:33 pm**

Neal wrote:It's staying in CGI, however. I think hand-drawn would have suited it well - that concept art is amazing! I love the nature-based elements of the elves.

I agree that 2D would be awesome, but given what we're seeing from Tangled the 3D might look pretty good.

Posted: **Sun Aug 01, 2010 12:43 pm**

I was looking at Wikipedia and this is what they say ...
n addition, instead of originally being in CGI, the movie is now going to be hand-drawn. [3] ??? Interesting this is the link they posted with it - http://progresscityusa.com/2010/07/20/s ... formation/

So 2D or 3D I'm confused

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:48 am**

A while back, Chris Williams presented to Lasseter, Catmull and Ross his pitch for his next project. It was rejected outright by the Chairman of Walt Disney Studios as playing "too young" so it was shelved and Chris went away trying to retool his pitch. Now you all know that Disney Animation was going to do a film called "The King of the Elves," based on the Philip K. Dick story. Well, it too was shelved because of story problems. The take that Aaron Blaise & Robert Walker had wasn't going smoothly. Lasseter decided to stop development on it until they had a better take on the project. Well, now they have that better take, and the version that will be going forward is much different thanks to Chris Williams new direction on the project. That's right, Williams is the new director of KOTE, and it is moving forward in development. While it hasn't received approval to go into production, Williams is one of John's "first finds" at WDAS and he likes what he sees in the young animator/director. Since he came aboard, the story flow has become much smoother than the previous try.

http://blueskydisney.blogspot.com/2010/ ... rth-2.html

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2010 5:45 am**

^ That's what I was wondering. I could've sworn that I had read that it now was going to be in 2D, and I'm guessing it must've been on BlueSkyDisney...

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2010 9:45 am**

We already know, but thank you for the update.

The thread for KotE is here:

http://www.dvdizzy.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 3&start=80

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:45 am**

The story sounds really good and it would be beautiful in 2D I can just imagine the Elves at DisneyWorld

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:20 pm**

blackcauldron85 wrote:^ That's what I was wondering. I could've sworn that I had read that it now was going to be in 2D, and I'm guessing it must've been on BlueSkyDisney...

several sites say this:

''has been retooled as a traditionally animated feature, giving Disney’s artists something meaty to work on after Pooh.''

visit the link below for the full story

http://progresscityusa.com/tag/king-of-the-elves/

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:15 pm**

^ Yes, I thought so! Thank you!!!

:pink::pink:

Posted: **Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:07 am**

So.... the movie's back into development AND will be hand-drawn?

Posted: **Tue Aug 03, 2010 1:14 am**

Let's take a wait and see approach before we get our hopes up. Right now, we have conflicting reports.

Posted: **Sun Aug 08, 2010 6:15 am**

http://filmonic.com/king-of-the-elves-b ... -far-ahead
(via animationguildblog.blogspot.com)

That article says that KotE will be in CG...

Maybe Disney doesn't even know yet which medium they'll use...?

Posted: **Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:22 am**

I would assume that this film would probably use the same technology used by Tangled if released in CGI. That being the case, while it's in development, would the animators necessarily need to choose a medium right now. Everything I've seen so far of Tangled's development has not looked much different than any of the hand drawn classics.

Posted: **Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:38 am**

I really like the designs and hope it will be hand-drawn and think they'd look great, hand drawn.

Posted: **Sun Nov 07, 2010 12:05 pm**

Is this the new logo?

According to wikipedia it is !

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