Disney Erases Hand-Drawn Animation
In the 1960s Walt Disney joked that one day he'd replace his elite corps of animators ... with Audio-Animatronic figures.
At the end of last month, Walt's joke came true. The studio ... will be shutting DisneyToon Studios Australia next year. ... the company's last remaining facility creating hand-drawn traditional animation.
Of course, future Disney features will not be made by robots, but by skilled human animators working with a different kind of tool. But the demise of hand-drawn animation at Disney is a sad and significant cultural watershed that deserves a proper mourning rather than a brief p.r. notice.
