May 17, 2004

KID BEGS DISNEY TO KEEP 2-D

An eighth grader wrote an editorial in today's New York NEWSDAY, begging Disney not to abandon traditional animation:

During spring break, my family and I took the animation studio tour at MGM Studios in Florida. A man showing us a few sketches and backgrounds from the new Disney movie "Home on the Range," said something startling. He said that Disney plans to stop making animated movies drawn by hand and shift to the newer 3-D computer animation technique, which was used in such hits as "Toy Story" and "Finding Nemo."
When we heard this, almost everyone in the room gasped. How could Disney end all those years of wonderful 2-D animation in favor of a computer?
Read the rest HERE.


Posted by at May 17, 2004 09:40 AM