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PIXAR'S LASSETER PLANS TO REVIVE HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION Wednesday, June 7 2006 
Hand-drawn
animation
may
not
be
dead,
after
all.
Pixar's
creative
chief,
John
Lasseter,
has
told
Time
magazine
that
he
may
restore
Disney's
traditional
animation
unit,
which
the
studio
dismantled
in
response
to
the
success
of
computer-generated
animation,
like
that
employed
by
Pixar.
"Of
all
studios
that
should
be
doing
2-D
animation,
it
should
be
Disney,"
Lasseter
said
in
an
interview
with
film
critic
Richard
Corliss.
"We
haven't
said
anything
publicly,
but
I
can
guarantee
you
(more)PIXAR FOUGHT DISNEY TO PROTECT ITS Tuesday, May 16 2006 John Lasseter, the co-founder and creative leader of Pixar, has acknowledged that he worried endlessly during the protracted negotiations with Disney about the possibility that Disney would produce sequels to the original Pixar films like Toy Story and Monsters Inc. if a deal extending their relationship wasn't concluded. In an interview with Fortune magazine, Lasseter said, "It would have been easier just to walk away, but Steve [Jobs] stayed in there for me, because I (more) |
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As he has repeatedly promised, John Lasseter will revive traditional hand-drawn ("2-D") animation at the Walt Disney Co. with a feature titled The Frog Princess. The studio said Wednesday that directors Ron Clements and John Musker, whose credits include such hits as The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, and the flop, Treasure Planet, will return to direct the Princess movie, based on a Russian fairy tale. Daily Variety also reported that Alan Menken is working on the music for the movie and that it will have the kind of "Broadway style" for which Menken's earlier Disney films have been famous. Today's Hollywood Reporter questioned the strategy behind Disney's return to hand-drawn animation, noting in its report about the planned film that "traditional animation no longer draws the crowd."
