Current mood:

*sporfle!*

Animation is serious bizness
Please remember that these are grown men, some are old enough to your father and should be shown respect due to their years of experience and wisdom.

Over on the AWN forums Mr Mankind starts by posing a controversial question and softening the impact with his post Is 2D animation basically dead?.

It all starts nice and polite on the first page (I’m in there with my 2 cents). The discussion gets interesting and a good debate gets going on page 2.

On page 3 it gets serious. Mr Mankind is bemused by the reaction to his thoughts.

DrSpectre start to show his angst. As far as I'm concerned, 2D is a back-stabbing industry where ass-kissing skills combined with the ability to produce predictably mediocre results on a deadline will get you "in". Not a happy bunny.

We have a possible flounce.

Ken needing lip gloss was spotted here.

Mr Mankind posts some more cartoons that weren’t his. It’s total WWIII on page 6 before the moderator comes in and locks the post for further posting.

It’s short and so sweet.

Never mind – we have The Poll.

I just hope I don’t get banned for posting this.

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rose_tyler
2008-04-29 03:33 am UTC (link)

Meh, I don't care what kind of animation it is as long as it's of good quality and the story is awesome.

Unfortunately 90% of CGI, even feature animation CGI, looks cheap. Then again, a lot of 2D non-Disney flicks from the nineties looked super cheap as well. It's the same thing now, but with Pixar being the "Disney" of the time.

I'm glad to see Disney 2d returning mostly because it means they might go back to more traditional storytelling more than anything (instead of like... Chicken Little), and because I know it will look beautiful.

But as excited as I am to see 2d return (it's far from dead), I haven't been starving for good animation without it. My most unpopular fandom opinion would be that Pixar makes better films than Disney feature animation ever did (despite the fact that I grew up with Disney and love them to bits).

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chibikaijuu
2008-04-29 05:20 am UTC (link)

Pixar is so reliably brilliant, but they haven't been The Big Studio long enough for me to judge them against Disney's feature animation department, which had brilliant periods and so-so periods (and a few films that were utter crap *cough*BlackCauldron*cough*). Luckily I was the right age for their 1988-98 brilliant streak.

Other CGI bothers me - even when it's well done, it's stiff, or the palettes are weird, or the textures are off. But Pixar? Pixar is fucking amazing.

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	tintagel 2008-04-29 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	2D Disney is still the best comfort animation. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rose_tyler 2008-04-29 06:34 pm UTC (link)
	Eh I just think from a critical standpoint, Pixar's films are better. Of course that could change. Like the above commenter pointed out, Disney's had its up and down decades. shrug (Reply to this)(Parent)

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