Disney looking for 2D animaters! Return of 2D films or just tv shows?

[gaastra]

Disney is looking for a few good 2-D animators. They will pay you to learn how to make classic animation.

More 2-d films or just more tv shows?

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/disn ... 11536.html

[Ben]

I reckon both!

New shorts and TV projects *for sure*, but when you factor in that D+ is a content monster then I believe that the dreaded DTVs will be back. Think about it: those films, as loathed as most of them were, could be made for around $15m each — that’s the cost of one episode of Mandalorian!

Okay, so maybe that cost is raised to $20m or even $30m now, starting from scratch, but that’s still a lot cheaper than the $100m-plus the last few features cost. And there’s still a lot of material out there for the new, hate-to-say-it-but-soulless-Disney to mine, so I’d bet things like Dumbo II and AristoCats II might be back on, as well as hopefully some new features, like the abandoned fairytale films they were interested in doing as DTVs in the early 2000s.

Digital tech means a lot of these things can be made cheaper than CGI thesedays, and Disney know there is an audience, if not exactly a market, for these types of films. If they can make them "cheap" enough, they’ll be great assets for those that yearn for traditional, or at least tradigital, animated films again.

I can’t see them all being original, maybe to begin with, since existing IP is so much easier and cheaper to adapt and expand, but hopefully it can lead to new films. After all, *someone* there will have picked up on the buzz surrounding the Three Cabelleros show, and how well that was anticipated and received. I’d basically expect more of the same of that "golden age" of DTA stuff, of both the good (series) and the, er, not so good (DTVs)…!

[Daniel]

I would love if Dumbo II continued, but you already knew that!

[Ben]

With Burny Mattinson involved, I have to say I was quite liking the look of that one myself, even if it did have a little bit of an "elephant in the city" vibe. Kind of the same for another AristoCats, too.

[EricJ]

I'm guessing the Content Monster (named Bob) will overturn the Lasseter rule for sequels, but now that they think Olaf was a hit, we're more likely to be drowned in new spinoff series.

At least, I HOPE so, and not more hipster-deconstructive DuckTales and Chip & Dale.

[Ben]

Why does Content Monster Bob sound like a DreamWorks character…?

[gaastra]

Or a pbs kids show bad guy.

[Daniel]

Sounded funnier when James said it.