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January 29, 2004

And There Was Much Rejoicing!

Yay!

Disney and Pixar: Splitsville. No extention on their five-picture deal, and Cars will be the last Pixar film distributed by Disney. Pixar will be an independent agent afterwards.

And this comes on the heels of Disney liquidating its Florida 2D animation studio. No more hand-drawn cartoons from Disney... and now, no more CG cartoons, neither.

Those laid-off animators, by the way, have reformed into Legacy Animation.

Mmm, subtle.

Mr. Eisner, your incompetence brings me joy. You've done everything but wipe your ass with the company, and I thank you for it.

I feel an animation silver age comin' on.

Posted by Spike at January 29, 2004 05:10 PM

Comments

Legacy's been in the works for awhile, so I'm glad to finally see it picking up. What do you MEAN Eisner hasn't wiped his ass with Disney? Did you FORGET The Country Bears Movie???

Posted by Karen K. at January 29, 2004 07:06 PM
172.196.210.168

Anybody else see the trailer for "Home on the Range", that hideous-looking thing with the cows? (It's on some recent Disney DVD, "Finding Nemo" I think.) If that's the sort of crap that Disney executives were greenlighting, then it's probably a good thing they're killing their animation departments.

Then again, I really enjoyed "Treasure Planet", so what do I know?

Posted by Wagner at January 29, 2004 07:56 PM
66.69.233.156

ha. assholes. GO PIXAR GO, RUN LIKE HELL AND DON'T LOOK BACK.

Posted by Dylan at January 29, 2004 08:18 PM
66.159.153.71

All Disney needs now is for "Triplets of Bellville" to beat out Finding Nemo. (If you haven't seen that, GO FUCKING SEE IT.) Then it will fall to the trash it really is.

I've been calling for an animation revolution for years. After I graduate I can help be a part of it, hopefully. I have the ideas. My senior thesis film will have an animated sequence, but I'm still working on a style. Mixing 3D and traditional in unique ways seems to be hip these days.

Posted by Psychomelody at January 29, 2004 08:41 PM
141.158.2.40

It's like the House of Mouse had a meeting to determine the best possible way to destroy their market share, then did exactly that.

I agree with Dylan, GO PIXAR! GO!

Posted by Lisa Jonte at January 30, 2004 12:55 AM
64.85.227.122

And remember, Disney only just recently lost that court case and lost the rights to Winnie the Pooh , too. Two cash cows down, one right after the other.

Schadenfreude++!

Posted by spike at January 30, 2004 03:54 PM
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