Do anyone miss that old style Disney animation?

If I would have read your post when you first wrote it, I would have agreed with you 100%. However, my views have changed since then.

I am 29. So, I grew up with these classics and I miss this style of animation. But I realize that animation like this is simply a representation of its time. As another, older, poster wrote on this thread, some people prefer the earlier works from the 1940s and 1950s. I grew up with both of them and the 1990s films. So, I like all of them.

I think that animated films from each era have their merits. The creative minds behind it went through great lengths to make something new and imaginative. You can appreciate the animation, music and story in Bambi and Robin Hood and appreciate the same for Finding Nemo, the Toy Story series, Tangled and Frozen.

In the end, I just watch movies to be entertained. The more open minded I am about new things, the more I enjoy life.

It is sad that, in America at least, traditional 2D animation seems to be extinct. Not that I don't appreciate CG animation in the hands of artists. Pixar has done absolutely amazing and beautiful work. But there's room for variety. The appropriate medium for a film should be determined by the needs of the story, not by box office success. Of course that's only in an ideal world.

Disney tried to return to traditional animation with The Princess and the Frog, but it was a box office failure. So while it would be easy to point the finger at the studio system and blame them for the lack of 2D animation, we also have to admit that the public at large just doesn't seem to be interested in the art form any longer. We have to blame ourselves for not buying tickets.

I find topics like this amusing. I always start reading them in a stereotypical old man voice saying things like "back in my day, animation was...". Animation in general has been at it's most varied, intelligent, and artistic for more than ten years now. Now Disney has had a part in that, though not as big as it should. The problem with Disney, and it's been true a long time, is their insistence on sticking with a particular animation style once they've innovated for every single film. Disney rarely steps out of what ever current box it's in and try something different. I think the last time they really stepped outside their comfort zone was Lilo & Stitch, with it's beautiful watercolors and down to earth storyline( so to speak). It was nice that John Lasseter tried to revive hand drawn for a short time, but a Winnie the Pooh film was hardly a good choice to follow up the underrated Princess and the Frog. Hopefully Disney will get into a slump again as that seems to be the only time they are willing to take chances. In the mean time, for those who want hand drawn or other non CG forms of animation, there is plenty of it out there on the independent and foreign fronts.

On a side note, I found it amusing that one of the most vocal against modern animation in this topic has Fluttershy of MLP as their avatar.

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Do you mean 2D in general or this specific drawing style (used in Disney films during the 1960s and 1970s)? This drawing style is one of my favorites. I wish it was still used.