Toon Zone Talkback - Hollywood Ramping Up Production of Toon Features

Man, if people were tired of CG animated films before......

It's a good thing I'm minoring in animation in college, if CG is the wave of the future, I won't be working in 2D that much. Maybe I'll get a job as a modeler in Maya.

Of course, that could all change if the Princess and the Frog does good in theaters.



Nope. Nor do they need to.
If they sign CG animation studios to a multi-year deals, it's almost as good as buying a studio.

That reminds me: didn't Aardman sign a deal with Sony to produce animated films? If they did we can at least see more stop-motion films.
 
It is the late 90's animation boom all over again!!! lol. Here hoping it goes alot better, then WB animation's "Quest For Camelot" and Fox's Bluth Studios. WB feature animation could have a good rivel to Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks. For a while back in the day, there were rumors of a New Gods movie and Aquaman animated movie for WB feature animation as well as an animated Willy Wonka musical.
 
(High Fives Super Leviathan)

Indeed it does. Do we really need a million more talking animals in decidedly non-animal situations, voiced by big name celebrities, with a script written in crayon, borrowing lines heavily from other movies and stuff like that? NO! I want to see more films like Ratatoullie and The Incredibles than Shark Tales, Surf's Up, Open Season and all that nonsense. I also want to see more films that aren't CGI. All different forms of media can co-exist.

This is just going to lead to a gluttony of horrible films that no one will want to see, helping drag down the real films. The ones where animators and writers co-exist in harmony and make a solid film that makes you feel every single emotion and think about them. Things that make references to, not just borrow lines.

We can pretend as hard as we can that this is a good thing, but with TV animation fizzling out (we all know the reasons, I'm sick of restating them) it's meaningless. Every single movie from hear to eternity can be a CGI animated feature, and it would still be bad news for us.

Bottom line, it's cheapper to produce and more profitable than actual animation. And that's what really matters... Little effort and big cash bonuses. Slackers. That's what these executives are. Slackers.
 
Me? Good taste? I memorized the entire Samurai Pizza Cats theme. That's quite a statement.

But I really mean that. It's not that I hate the CGI movies, but we've had a gluttony of bad ones (cough cough Dreamworks and Sony Cough cough). Pixar, while getting too much of a love in, deserves it, because they really look at the artistic aspects of a film. Other companies just cast celebrities for celebrities sake (we can blame Aladdin for that, if you think about it, but they made it work), and write a blank check for a story line.

Bottom line is, we need less animated features, both DTV and theatrical, and a lot lot more TV animation. Sure, they're animated in Korea, but we at least employ creative designers that have to come up with 13+ episodes worth of character designs and storyboards. More work for more people, who hopefully will get their own shows in time, employing more storyboard artists and character designers who will get their own shows in time, paying it forward. Seth McFarline and Butch Hartman got their starts working in Cartoon Network for Dexter and Johnny Bravo.
 
But lately there have been quite a few good features and hardly any good TV animation being made in America (outside of Avatar and The Boondocks, is anything really good still on the air?).
 
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