This is really good news (at least I think it is). Disney is getting ready to head back to the medium that made them famous. 2-D animation! They’re obviously not getting rid of 3-D animation, but adding the traditional animation back into its fold!
Our friends over at Cinemablend give us this:
Variety says they’re returning to 2-D animation for the first time since 2004’s Home on the Range. They’ll do it with a movie called The Frog Princess, being developed by John Musker and Robert Clements. They’re the guys responsible for Disney 2-D classics like Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. The interesting thing here is that both Musker and Clements abandoned Disney several years ago, and only recently returned after the very public merger of Disney and Pixar, which put people like John Lasseter in charge of Disney’s animation division. With the help of Pixar’s team, it looks like Disney is regaining its reputation as a haven for great animation talent.
I’m a 3-D animation junkie, but 2-D animation is a wonderful medium for story telling. There’s just something magical about it when done right.
At the end of the day, all that really matters is the story… but different mediums can give a story a different flavor… and it’s nice to see Disney shaking up the spice rack again.
