New "Unbraided" aka Disney's Rapunzel is out

[secondlina]

BEHOLD : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSx1dYJlJh4

As always, the animation looks great. There seems to be a strong focus on the male character. Probably to attract a male audience. I get the feeling that by creating a dashing thief, there just gonna attract more girls...

- Isa

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[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Mainly because it was planned as CGI from the start, and also because they were going for a specific artistic look with the film so that even if it's CGI, it's supposed to look more like a painting. It's something that probably could be done with traditional animation, but would be much more expensive to do.

(Edit: This movie was in the works while Pixar and Disney were having a falling out, so at the time Disney was pushing CGI. It would probably destroy too much work to start all over with traditional animation.)

[engelen.livejournal.com]

that was my way of saying "I don't care if it's expensive, I'll watch it a million times, I WANT DISNEY TO MAKE 2D ANIMATED FILMS!!!! >___________________________< *tantrum*"

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Oh trust me, I do, too. I still don't really like cgi movies. Yes, it looks pretty, but a lot of the time it just lacks any real lasting appeal. I'd take a movie like Beauty and the Beast over, say, Avatar, any day!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

CGI will last. I don't expect one to trump the other. That's like saying traditional animation "won" over stop motion. They are just different styles with different tools and different possibilities. As long as Disneys officials realise that BOTH tools should be used (aka release CGI and traditional), I think both styles can live side-by-side quite nicely. Having one "die out" would just be sad.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I suspect artists are going back and forth from Disney to Pixar, so aside from this movie, I think in the future we'll only see cgi movies from Pixar and traditionally animated movies from Disney, so yes, they can and ought to live side by side. I'll be curious to see where all of the animation movie studios are in another ten-twenty years though.

[putri-nih.livejournal.com]

you're not the only one :( No more Snow Queen makes me sad

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

WHAT? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SNOW QUEEN! No, it's my favorite fairy tale! NOOOO! I though the project was revived?

[putri-nih.livejournal.com]

It was over 3 months ago? They tallied up Frog's Box Office numbers and said, "Not enough for a third 2d feature" They're still doing Pooh.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

It's not at all uncommon for Disney to shelve projects that have story issues. Beauty and the Beast was actually started back when Walt Disney was still alive but they couldn't find a way to make the story work, so the project was shelved - literally. Thankfully Disney does tend to go back to shelved projects later on to see if they can find a new way to make the story work. Considering we have Beauty and the Beast as an animated feature now, despite it being shelved decades ago, I think it highly likely that some time in the future you'll get to see The Snow Queen released.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Well, hopefully it will be picked up again soon enough. That story is actually pretty adeventurous and features a girl saving a boy... it would make a nice rule-breaking disney.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Enchanted did it. O:)

Seriously though, the story has heavy Christian/religious themes to it that Disney would most likely have to remove. Remove that, and most of your story is gone. The girl can't really save the boy if she can't pray and summon angels to drive the evil from him. I imagine Disney had the same problem when adapting The Little Mermaid since a huge plot point in the original was that mermaids do not have souls, so she died not expecting to exist beyond that. Disney cut that element out entirely, and oddly enough, people seemed okay with that. Then again, Ariel didn't die at the end...

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Still, a girl on a quest would be nice.

I've seen adaptations that removed the religious themes and they worked quite well. They got replaced by "stock fantasy creatures" and the "power of love". Still works though.