From
IMDb.com's
Studio Brief today:
Is Hand-Drawn Animation Dead?
Analysts are once again predicting the demise of traditional animation following the failure of DreamWorks' Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.Harvey Deneroff, president of Animation Consultants International, told today's (Wednesday) USA Today, "I suspect [traditional animation] is dead as far as most studios are concerned in terms of large-scale, big budget films." The newspaper observed that Sinbad marked the third major "2-D"-animated film to flop in recent years, following The Road to El Dorado and Treasure Planet.However, other analysts point out that few animated films that weren't comedies and/or musicals have ever been successful. And pointing to the success of last year's hand-drawn Lilo & Stitch, Disney chairman Dick Cook told USA Today: "Good storytelling is a lot more important to an animated movie than the way it's drawn."Any comments would be superfluous.