Let's fix animation!

Here's how it works. I am going to open up this thread to suggestions on how to fix animation. You can post ideas involving character designs all the way to opening new facilities or bringing back 2-D or axing sequels.

Be careful NOT to repeat suggestions! You may post more than one idea.

At the very end, I might make a voting system, and then finally, the winning ideas from poll or otherwise shall make it into a "Walt Disney Company Constitution Proposal."

It should be in this format:

"[YOUR NUMBERED POST] Let's [SUGGESTION]"

I'll start:

1. Let's bring back character songs. Make each film as though it were on Broadway. Successes have included: Beauty and the Beast and the Lion King. They have even made it to Broadway! Having the characters sing brings an ultimate and necessary originality that has been so much a part of Disney's successful past. A character feature animation musical has not been made since WDFA's Mulan in 1998.

Aah. This is fun! I was just thinking about this sort of thing last night.

1. If I were CEO, I would let Legacy finnish their fist film and then move them into the old Art of Disney Animation at MGM. It would be called, "Disney's Legacy Animation". People can take a tour of the building with a new modified tour with interactive exibits at the end.

2. I just thought of something.... Why not partner up with Aarman pictures? They've done Wallace and Gromit and Chicken run, and their films are really good! It would be a great partnership.

4. It is only my opinion that some of the latest batch of features have been drawn "hard" and are def. not as whimsical and fun as was the case during that Disney Decade. The stories do not seem as magical and fairy tale esque (they dont have to be a true fairy tale, but can still have that feeling.) Yet stories also don't have to be dumbed down in order to be whimsical.

And on a side note, I hate when Disney animated features are PG rated, especially in recent years, yet also in the past ie Black Cauldron.

Hmm an interesting topic you bring up here our my suggestions.

1. Characters shouldnt always sing songs. Its been done before by Disney many many times. If the story would be better with songs thats great but dont force the songs into the picture.

2. Allow more creative control to animators. The best stuff from Disney in the last few years has come from the Florida studio and from my personal experience talking with some animators is that the films turn out better when they are not getting noted to death by corporate execs with no experience in animation.

and finally...

3. Remember CGI alone will not make your films better, some stories are best told in CGI,but other stories are better told in 2-d.

1. Theme songs should be on all disney's animated movies.

Like- The Circle of Life, Under the Sea.
And theme music like- This Land from the Lion King.

When watching LotR: TT Peter Jackson said that he wanted music that people could relate to the characters and the people something Disney use to do more. when I watched Return with my friends everone was like here's the Hobbit music and the Fellowship music, etc. Disney you use to be able to pick out songs that stood out. Like what was the last Disney song/theme that people can pick out? Toy Story- You got a Friend in Me.

1. I think that it definitely needs to be a fairy tale that ressurects Traditional Animation from its grave. I mean, the animated film industry began with the fairy tale, and Disney's last Golden Age did as well. It's just too bad they turned Rapunzel into a CG project, cause that's the only fairy tale i can think of right now that hasnt been animated or presented in some form up until now. However, i dont know much about fairy tales, but there must be some more. So there's my suggestion, MAKE CLASSIC FAIRY TALES, with a broadway style soundtrack, writted by Alan Menken!

1. For more fairy tale stories, I would urge them to look at the series that Jim Henson did called The Storyteller. There are so many lesser known and obscure fairytales out there that are just as compelling if not more so than what Disney has put out before.