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[dejgaard]

I second your words to Aloha, Meme!


Much as I and my son likes to watch "Finding Nemo" and other Pixar animations, together, something is missing from them - something that can only be generated on a drawing board...

The figures lack that *wink*...
I can't put words to it, exactly, but they are not "human"...

I guess the best way I can describe it is by the difference between hand-blown glass and machine-blown glass (if any of you have actually had a hand-blown glass in your hand...)

...Life doesn't mirror itself in something machine made... It isn't "organic"...

... No, I give up! I can't explain it... I just feel it... It has some sort of "sterility" over it...

KD

[aloha2213]

Hey Meme

I too, am deeply saddened with the demise of hand drawn animation and thank you for your kind words. The good news is that I am not an animator and I am still here.... coming on 15 years with the mouse. But with centralization, outsourcing, cutbacks etc no one is secure these days.

Because of the law of supply and demand, I still believe hand drawn will make a comeback some day. Post Lion King everyone opened an animation studio and novice artist were commanding 6 figure salaries. Now that all the studios have shuttered and there is a large pool of available animators, one could actually hire a crew at a reasonable rate and make a feature with a smaller budget. I believe Steve Jobs is already planning to do just that at Pixar.