Chicken Little

Captain Schnemo · Post by **Captain Schnemo** » Dec Thu 01, 2005 6:32 pm

I think anyone who has seen Spirited Away knows that there's a lot of life left in traditional animation and that computer enhancements don't have to be as obvious and jarring as the ballroom scene in Beauty and the Beast.

Some movies are completely digital, but done in a traditional style, so they just look like exceptionally clean traditional animation. I'd expect Disney to be breaking ground in this area (Walt was always happy to show off the tech he used to make superior cartoons), but instead they're taking the easy way out.

RCTfan · Post by **RCTfan** » Dec Mon 12, 2005 7:37 pm

I definitely enjoyed Chicken Little. I saw it twice. Well, my mom wanted to see it my second time so she paid. Ha. It had its funny moments. You can't expect a Pixar movie though.

Mom "RUNT! If you don't stop I'm gonna take your Streisand collection away!!!"
Run "YOU LEAVE BARBARA OUT OF THIS!"

I died.

zenmondo · Post by **zenmondo** » Dec Tue 13, 2005 11:14 am

Captain Schnemo wrote: Some movies are completely digital, but done in a traditional style, so they just look like exceptionally clean traditional animation. I'd expect Disney to be breaking ground in this area (Walt was always happy to show off the tech he used to make superior cartoons), but instead they're taking the easy way out.

Actually, many of the recent Disney features were done this way with a system called CAPS. It saved lots of time and money as the hand-drawn animation was then colored in the computer, so there were no more need for cels.

Also the CAPS system could act as a virtual multi-plane camera, so those type of shots also became much cheaper and less time was needed to make them.

I would have loved to see further innovation in this area, and see more 2-D pictures. Polygons are nice, but lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

CA Screamin Dude · Post by **CA Screamin Dude** » Dec Thu 15, 2005 5:15 am

I liked Chicken Little. I thought it was a touching story, not something on the level of Toy Story, but since when was it meant to be that specific movie? It wasn't. It was it's own, and it was good.

Captain Schnemo · Post by **Captain Schnemo** » Dec Fri 16, 2005 3:02 am

zenmondo wrote:Actually, many of the recent Disney features were done this way with a system called CAPS.

That's interesting.

I've been impressed with things I've seen that wrap traditional drawings around 3D objects and insert them into conventional 2D animation. You can get some really pretty effects like that. Is that how they did some of that tree branch "surfing" in Tarzan? I only saw the commercials on that one.

I must admit that I haven't been to a Disney cartoon in some time. I think the last one was Hunchback...and I wish I hadn't subjected myself to that one...