"What about the movies 300 and Beowolf? Don't these count as animated movies now? As Disney and Dreamworks move more and more to computer animation films like The Black Cauldron will become things of the past like black and white movies. Even Sin City and other films combining animation and live action will be far more popular than the great animation of the classics. In fact Japanese movies are the only ones not moving toward the computer style. If Japan starts doing anime Fast and the Furious like Cars that might be the end of the great tradition. I wouldn't know what to make of Spirited Away done like Cars or Shrek."
Sin City and 300 have live action elements rendering them anything but animation. Claiming them as animated features is just plain out bizarre and stupid.
How can you compare Sin City with "great animation of the classics"? That makes no sense, they are two completely different things! Animation and live action have always coexisted, and never before has the popularity of, let's say, Star Wars to extinguish the popularity of animation. They can not be compared. And also, animation elements have always been a part of movie making from hand puppets to background matte paintings.
And also what you are saying about the Japanese makes no earthly sense to me. Final Fantasy: The Advent Children was done "like Cars or Shrek", if what you meant by that was that it utilized the possibilities of 3D animation. Everything about you're post has little to none of intelligence.
By the way, I also love and adore traditional animation and do wish to perserve it, and think it as a more living, artistic and beuatiful way of making animation. I also love stop motion and puppet animation. Still, I do not wish to look at these things with only one eye open; I recognize the genious of Shrek-films and also most of the first Pixar films and see that their mood could never been achieved by any other methods.
So basically I agree with what you are saying, but you should always think your message through. You can't just go rampaging about things you do not bother check out, or have no clue what-so-ever and make insane, hypocritical jumps between things (Oh my Gods, Star Wars has hand puppet, that makes it a puppet animation movie!!!!).
I do think that traditional animation needs to make a new "brake-through", though. People are too overwhelmed of the new technology and forget about the artistic side of things.
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