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« on: 2016-02-05 11:06:36 »

Traditional or CGI Animation?

I grew up with many classic, traditionally drawn animated films and cartoons.  When Pixar's Toy Story came out in the 90s, it began the current decline of hand drawn animated films.  We haven't seen a major hand drawn animated film in years!  It has been regulated mainly now to daily cartoons, but even those are starting to slow down as more computer animated cartoons appear.

So my question is simple.  What do you like more?  Let's discuss this changing trend and possible soon to be lost art of hand drawn animation.
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« Reply #1 on: 2016-02-05 11:39:59 »

Huh.........hard to really say which one I prefer over the other......
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« Reply #2 on: 2016-02-05 11:40:34 »

I like both.
Both can be done well. CG as more potential to look horribly ugly, though (Norm of the North *cough cough*). Both can show characters with a wide variety of emotions. And both can be just as gut wrenching if need be.
To be honest, whether a film or cartoon is CG or traditional, it comes down to how good the story is. The animation, whether it's good or bad, also plays a very important role. But just having your film be CG doesn't automatically make it good. Nor does it make it bad. It all depends on how you use the tool.

Aesthetically, I sometimes prefer traditional cartoons, as they tend to have a lower budget, and low budget CG looks really offsetting. Films though, if done well and with enough time and care, can come out astonishingly beautiful.
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« Reply #3 on: 2016-02-05 11:44:18 »

Movies like Frozen and Tangled are awesome bits of CG movie examples. And then you have the old school stuff like Sword in the Stone. Classic animation that just sticks with ya
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« Reply #4 on: 2016-02-05 11:49:41 »

Oh yeah.

It all depends on the talent and dedication people put into their work.
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« Reply #5 on: 2016-02-05 11:50:41 »

Indeed. While I brought it up, fave Disney movie if you got one?
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« Reply #6 on: 2016-02-05 12:43:05 »

I personally enjoy traditionally done animation more.  To me it has more raw emotion and connection with the artist.

Don't get me wrong, because CGI is beautiful too. Pixar are the masters, but as time as progressed, we are seeing all design companies doing these rubbery round faced characters.  Everything is looking the same now.  They have realized they can only design human cartoons in so many ways with CGI, which is ridiculous if you think about it.

Traditional has more opporunity to be creative and unique with character designs instead of bland, blobby, faces and bodies. 
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« Reply #7 on: 2016-02-05 13:18:39 »

Hmm, perhaps.
Though Pixar has made CG characters have more variety in their face shape. Examples include The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Both directed by the same guy if I'm not mistaken... huh.

Frozen and Tangled have similar face designs because they take place in the same universe.
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« Reply #8 on: 2016-02-05 13:37:43 »



Frozen and Tangled have similar face designs because they take place in the same universe.

Hmm, did not know that. 
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« Reply #9 on: 2016-02-05 13:49:01 »

Yea.
I got lots of other cool facts too lol
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« Reply #10 on: 2016-02-05 14:20:23 »

Rapunzel and Eugene DID cameo in frozen afterall
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« Reply #11 on: 2016-02-05 16:46:08 »

Nothing beats all the work in a traditional animation. Hand drawn animation, frame by frame, nothing beats the hard work in that.

Although CG can be real amazing, there's just something about a traditional animation that when I look at it I'm like "THAT".
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« Reply #12 on: 2016-02-05 16:50:38 »

I'm going to have to side with the traditionalists here.  There is more life and warmth in hand drawn animation.  You have to be really involved and into it, to carry on the long hours and devotion for a hand drawn project. 
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« Reply #13 on: 2016-02-05 19:01:27 »

The emotion and devotion that goes into hand drawn animation, GOOD hand drawn animation, can be seen.  It is a labor of love and oh so rewarding when it is complete.

You can pass off CGI work with no emotion pretty easily.  It happens almost every other month in theaters. 

Traditional animation 110% of the way for me. 
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« Reply #14 on: 2016-02-05 19:19:50 »

Also, the reason Elsa and Anna's parents went on that trip? They were going to Rapunzel's wedding. As stated by one of the workers on the movie.

Well, CG also takes an massive amount of time.
It takes a week to animate a second of time in a CG film.
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