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Enough with the CGI animation!!! It doesn't make you 'more relavant'!!!

posted 12 years ago by campaigning_musical_lover
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I am so tired of every single animated movie being done in entirely with CGI animation... Studio's seem to be under the false assumption that CGI animation makes a movie "more relevant" and "trendy" for today's children. While some films it makes since, this one it doesn't... A film about Oz should feel timeless... You can still use the computer to aid and enhance the hand drawn 2D animation, but sorry when I see images and clips from this movie (and many others of it's kind), I feel like I am being smacked in the face by a computer.

Kid's still like traditional animation... the most popular Disney films are STILL the old traditional Princess/Fairy Tale films (Princess in the Frog failed because of horrible music and a really bizarre decision to make Tiana a poorly rendered frog for the bulk of the film... it was not the medium's fault). Sure there have been success story's with CG animation (Toy Story, Wall-E, etc.), but those stories lent themselves to the technology (talking action figures/toys and a robot)... other stories DO NOT!

[–] snoglow-87 12 years ago

I must agree, I've seen animation done by students that looks better than this. Scarecrow looks like a puppet, and the lion, well, he looks like a lion. The head of the Scarecrow looks like a potato. If it's a game for children, then ok, but as animation, even if it is for children, it's not that nice.

When I heard about Princess and the Frog, and that it would be 2D, I was really excited, but the story is bad, and the 'funny parts' were not that funny. CG movies I love which are not with talking toys or robots, is Shrek and Ice Age.

[–] VampBC 12 years ago

I agree. Films look so much more talented with traditionally drawn images!!!!
When you see films like Lion King and Beauty and The Beast I have so much respect for the artist behind it.
When I see films like Toy Story and Finding Nemo (while good movies) I don't pay any attention or respect to the art behind the images.

[–] vinnypaul 7 years ago

That is very bitter and ignorant considering Toy Story and Finding Nemo are both fantastic films. The cgi was great. But seriously? You are a moron.

[–] NolanSorrento 10 years ago

There's nothing wrong with a Animated CG flick. But just like traditional animation it's up to the people behind it to make it good.

FYI people ranted when Fantasia came out because it was blasphemy to use classical pieces put to a cartoon. People who complain about CG are just the new generation of those people.