Chicken Little Makers 'Quit' Disney

[Alex]

I wouldn't get too excited about the hand-drawn animation in Enchanted being a sign of a revival at Disney. They aren't doing th animation in that movie, and neither is Pixar. James Baxter Animation is doing the sequence.

Sure, there is hope that it will be so successful that Disney has to return to hand-drawn animation full time but there are a lot of hurdles. One, it would be very expensive to recreate what used to exist and it would be a couple years before any product could be created. Two, there is no reason that CG animation can't be used to produce what looks like hand-drawn animation (see the short Lorenzo for an example of something you'd swear is hand-drawn being completely CG).

While I would regret it if the look of hand-drawn animation dies, despite any momentary resurgence, I think the process is for the history museum except for very localized specialty projects.