September 15, 2005

Tim Burton Says Hand-Drawn isn't Dead

Tim Burton shares his thoughts about Hollywood's misguided attitude of favoring technique over story and content:

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists. The fact that Disney closed down its cel animation division is frightening to me. Someday soon, somebody will come along and do a drawn-animated film, and it'll be beautiful and connect with people, and they'll all go, 'Oh, we've got to do that!' It's ridiculous.

(Thanks, Josh Moshier)


Posted by AMID at September 15, 2005 12:18 AM