@coolboymew because it was too expensive to animate that way, so they went for cheap mass produced 3D garbage instead
@eri @coolboymew This.
It's a little ironic that Treasure Planet is used as the example here because that film, while very good, was a financial disaster for Disney and the contrast between that failure and the success of Pixar's CGI films (which were also cheaper to produce), is considered a big part of what promoted the shift in focus to 3D animation instead of 2D.
After Disney did it everyone else kida just followed suit.
It's a little ironic that Treasure Planet is used as the example here because that film, while very good, was a financial disaster for Disney and the contrast between that failure and the success of Pixar's CGI films (which were also cheaper to produce), is considered a big part of what promoted the shift in focus to 3D animation instead of 2D.
After Disney did it everyone else kida just followed suit.
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Iirc it was Brother Bear that was Disney's last hand drawn cartoon movie that made them quit this style of movies. ( The story was meh, and it bombed hard at the box office) Its also around this time Pixar started to release a movie each year and went from cute and abstract to... Meh
@xyfdi @eri @coolboymew You're right, I totally forgot about Brother Bear. I think The Princess and the Frog may have also been a nail in the coffin, now that I think about it, that was a pretty big financial disappointment for the company too.
