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I love CGI. It's amazing, and I have no doubt that Walt would love it too, and probably see it as a plus over 2D. Or maybe he would at first...But when I watch Pinocchio, or Fantasia, or Lady and the Tramp...there is a beauty in Walt-level 2D that is just missing in CGI. There's an artistic energy in a hand-drawn animation cell from a top-level artist that CGI cannot replicate. If you ask me, it's CGI that's limiting. There is no individual expression in it. That's its strength, I suppose...there's a reliability in quality that CGI guarantees. But there's a lack in virtuoso performances. Elsa cannot visually compete with hand-drawn Maleficent, for example. And compare Maleficent's dragon form with the dragon Smaug in that Hobbit movie...no comparison as to which is the most memorable. Anyway, I know that today's Disney isn't smart or bold enough to try what I suggested. I don't know why I keep hoping that someday there will be a real artistic renaissance in Disney Animation Studios. But you never know, after all....
I love CGI. It's amazing, and I have no doubt that Walt would love it too, and probably see it as a plus over 2D. Or maybe he would at first...
But when I watch Pinocchio, or Fantasia, or Lady and the Tramp...there is a beauty in Walt-level 2D that is just missing in CGI. There's an artistic energy in a hand-drawn animation cell from a top-level artist that CGI cannot replicate. If you ask me, it's CGI that's limiting. There is no individual expression in it. That's its strength, I suppose...there's a reliability in quality that CGI guarantees. But there's a lack in virtuoso performances. Elsa cannot visually compete with hand-drawn Maleficent, for example. And compare Maleficent's dragon form with the dragon Smaug in that Hobbit movie...no comparison as to which is the most memorable. Anyway, I know that today's Disney isn't smart or bold enough to try what I suggested. I don't know why I keep hoping that someday there will be a real artistic renaissance in Disney Animation Studios. But you never know, after all....
