Sadly, the Walt Disney company is gradually shutting down it’s 2-D animation department. They’ve decided that the reason Treasure Planet <\/i>failed and Finding Nemo<\/i> succeeded is that Finding Nemo <\/i>was animated in 3-D. That Finding Nemo <\/i>featured a fresh, funny script and brilliant voicework by Ellen DeGeneres, while Disney’s 2-D features lately have had mediocre scripts or worse, apparently has nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n
All Disney really needed to do was hire some great writers and then (and this is the crucial part, the part that executives generally mess up) get out of the way<\/i>. Instead, they’re shutting down one of the best hand-drawn animation studios in the world.<\/p>\n
This is the kind of thinking that Michael Eisner is paid millions for.<\/p>\n
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