When will 2D animation come back at Disney?
It's rather simple question but i was wandering if anyone would want them to try there hands again at a full hand drawn 2D animated film.
Would people still love that?(expectantly since Japan is still the 2D animated film market that Disney and maybe the rest of the studios have seemingly forgotten about)
Plus would this film be if done do LION KING or more recently for Disney FROZEN numbers if done right with stuff like the story,marketing and the way again people with there kids wanting seeing something beyond the flooded 3D animated films and get back what DISNEY did really there best at.
Also you could say Disney is much better place with these films and story telling animation now then the early 2000s with that disappointing "flop era" in which they were in something of a complete identity crisis with random "action" films(Atlantis,Treasure Planet)or straight humor films(Home on the Range, Chicken Little both of which i never liked).
Plus i think Walt Disney himself would have wanted to challenge the film makers of say ATLANTIS to just THROW AWAY the "save the crystal and the crew mates are villains" story line and try to find something more creative and interesting with the story beyond mindless "action" film like actually make the crew work as a actual "team" and not just good/bad and also find a way to keep the submarine as a functional part of the story and not destroy it as a random action scene. Also try making the Atlanteans into a actual culture we can care about beyond just Milo(boy do i hate Milo by the way)
With Treasure Planet i think he would try to find a better story reason as to why the characters can BREATHE IN SPACE!!!!!(that was the one thing i never get about it)
Compare any of those with BIG HERO 6 or WRECK IT RALPH and i still see a big improvement over what was missing from those films(all but Lilo and Stitch and Emperor's New Groove were pretty creative and "fun" to me that was missing from every other film they were doing in that era). And yes those are 3D films but they were still pretty good and comparable with the big hits of the 90s
Heck i still like the 90s era films just as well and they at least have been getting back to that including the singing and how would still fit in naturally into the storylines.
I don't want believe they would totally forsaken hand drawn animation forever(funny enough that a number of the still talented artists there who quit Disney are now doing there own indie animated films that trying to get people back to see it as still a workable market again beyond again 3D computer animation)
Finally i don't know when or if the current talent there really want to go back to that format or why someone there thinks that hand drawn animation should be "dead and buried!!!???" since you could say the "flop era" happened mainly because of bad story telling, behind the scenes politics that get in the way anything creative, great or better ideas being thrown away replaced by less thoughtful ones, a more style over subsistence ideals, MONEY AND TIMING of releases, the weird way they handled "no singing", marketing, the HUGE lay offs, and finally Eisner himself(who was more the devil incarnated during this era then anything else).
Maybe all those factors and more is what is keeping them from trying to do another hand drawn film but i hope it's not a permanent state of mind for them ether!!!
What do you think?