Articles like this http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/new ... tion_x.htm tend to make you shrug your shoulders.
The mainstream media just gets this stuff wrong all the time.
There IS NO REVIVAL OF STOP-MOTION ANIMATED FEATURES taking place because they were never that common to begin with! It seems like one stop-motion film comes around about every 5-10 years, but they've been even less common than traditionally hand-drawn features.
The article even has facts in it that contradict that author's thesis. Wallace & Gromit was in production for TWO years before the article was written. A deal for Wallace was inked YEARS before production even began!
Corpse Bride itself, the "proof" that this revival is taking place, was in production 3 years before it got released. Years, too, before the article was written (again).
I'd believe in a revival of stop-motion, or hand-drawn animation, if it meant competing studios slated 5 stop-motion films to be done, or the past leader of the industry, Disney, got off its duff and commissioned a new film (made by its own American production arm) that WASN'T CGI or made by Pixar... Until then, how can anybody say there's a revival in progress for stop-motion, let alone hand-drawn animation?
Revival of stop-motion? USAToday gets it wrong!
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Didn't you know George?
It only takes six months to make a film like Corpse Bride from an basic idea to being in the theaters, so we should be seeing around 8 stop-motion features by the end of next year.
In fact, rumblings at the Academy have it that they may even split the Best Animated feature Oscar in two to account for the new trend...
It only takes six months to make a film like Corpse Bride from an basic idea to being in the theaters, so we should be seeing around 8 stop-motion features by the end of next year.
In fact, rumblings at the Academy have it that they may even split the Best Animated feature Oscar in two to account for the new trend...
hehe heheh.
Right, Ben!
Computer science has gotten so advanced that it only takes 5 people from marketing and management to make an animated feature! They're linked up to massive supercomputers at Walt Disney World through the Internet that automatically spit out classic movies in two weeks!
<And people wonder WHY so many of us are getting sick of the media?>
Right, Ben!
Computer science has gotten so advanced that it only takes 5 people from marketing and management to make an animated feature! They're linked up to massive supercomputers at Walt Disney World through the Internet that automatically spit out classic movies in two weeks!
<And people wonder WHY so many of us are getting sick of the media?>