My love of animation knows no bounds.
And while a part of me will always believe that the hand-drawn stuff will never be eclipsed as the ultimate expression of the art-form... there is no denying that the miraculous work being done by Pixar and others in the realm of computer animation bodes well for the future.
And then today I see that John Kahrs and Disney has come up with a way of making CG look very much like traditional hand-drawn animation with a beautiful and touching short film called Paperman...
Absolutely magical.
I've lost track of the number of times I've watched it.
No, it's not in the same league as a Hayao Miyazaki film. And I wouldn't say that it reaches the heights of Disney classics like Snow White and Jungle Book or even The Lion King and Lilo & Stitch. But the technology is young. And the results are mind-blowing. And there's no telling where this might lead...
My only worry being that this will be the final nail in the coffin for hand-drawn animation. And as great as this new technology might one day be, I think there will always be a place for putting a pencil to paper... then putting your heart into making something come to life, frame by frame...
Ones and zeroes has a hard time competing with that. But it's getting closer every day.
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Oh!! That is just lovely!!
I watched Beginners a few months ago and then asked my nephew, who works for MeringCarson, if he ever draws when working on a project. He said rarely but he just did a few days before. He said he misses that.
I thought iTunes and the iPod would be the final nail in the coffin of vinyl, but there are still people out there dedicated to producing new records. There’s even a Record Store day.
As beautiful as Paperman is – and I’ve watched it a bunch today, too – I think there will always be a place for hand-drawn animation. We may never have the raindrops on the pond from Snow White again, but I think handcrafted animation will be around for a while yet.
Or at least there will always be a place for the Bad Monkey Cartoon Hour.
Crap! I meant the rain drops in BAMBI, not Snow White.
I loved the short. I watched it the other day and thought it was really cute.
I didn’t know that it was computer generated though, I thought it was hand drawn. Interesting.
That. Was. Amazing.
Thanks for this…is will be my Friday Fim for my 8th graders. A perfect example of story telling in a nutshell
Cute
It’s really magical!
Great Short Film!
That was very sweet, thank you for sharing.
This was really well done. Love the story and the animation.