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DISNEY RETURNING TO 2-D ONLY, SAYS REPORT Tuesday, December 19 2006 
John
Lasseter
and
Ed
Catmull
are
planning
to
return
the
Walt
Disney
Co.'s
studios
in
Burbank
to
its
roots
as
a
"traditional"
(hand-drawn)
animation
company
exclusively,
while
Pixar
will
continue
to
turn
out
computer-animated
(CG)
features,
Disney
watcher
Jim
Hill
reported
on
his
website
www.jimhillmedia.com
today
(Tuesday).
In
doing
so,
Lasseter,
the
chief
creative
officer
for
Disney
Animation,
and
Catmull,
the
unit's
president,
will
be
reversing
Disney's
efforts
over
the
past
three
years
to,
in
(more)HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION RETURNING TO DISNEY Thursday, July 27 2006 
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
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John Lasseter, who currently holds the title of chief creative officer of the Walt Disney Co., selected a stockholders annual meeting in New Orleans Thursday to announce that Disney will return to hand-drawn animation in 2009 with a feature set in New Orleans. The feature, The Frog Princess, will be directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, who oversaw The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, and who were forced out by the studio's previous management when it decided to abandon hand-drawn animation in 2004. The movie will also feature the first African-American princess to appear in a Disney animated film. "We're going back to hand-drawn animation," Lasseter announced at the meeting. "This movie is going to be classic Disney and yet you have never seen this before." The studio said that it plans to rehire many of the animators it let go during the bloodletting following the failure of 2004's Home on the Range, Disney's last "2D" animated film.
