Introduction
“What goes around comes around” couldn’t be more applicable than to the recent announcement from Ed Catmull, president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, and John Lasseter, the chief creative officer, that they are once again returning to hand-drawn animation for their film projects. Hooray!
After the success of their computer-animated project Toy Story in 1995, they closed their hand-drawing facility in 2004. They have now decided, rightly, that the charm, linear attributes and added depth of hand-drawn animation still have a strong role to play in the future of animation. We wish them well — and the same to all of us artists who draw by hand!
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