may be a little gay for some of you, but i was just watching aladdin with my "niece". it was highly entertaining

pinocchio is some intense shit.
aladdin is more vanilla.

its been a while since i've seen the lion king, but i think i remember they had some great stuff going on with doing rack focus on the animations and depth of field. that stuff is great to see those things incorporated into animation. its no surprise that it came from disney.

right now disney is playing it way safe. they aren't doing any big 2d productions any more all straight to video rehashes.

i saw an animation that walt disney and salvador dali collaborated on at an exhibit a month ago, it was pretty cool. some people finished the animation in 2003 long after both of them were dead. but it was definitely a good watch.

ultimately i love disney movies minus the musical section, i'm not too into that. i do love cartoons. though spongebob is probably my favorite. which is not disney but its great. i got to see where they story board it and meet the people who work on it. it was a great experience. I met the guy who wrote the rubber nipples salesman episode of ren and stimpy.

sorry T if this is all over the place, i cartoons

and i u for ing them


i also love the theme song to Aladdin

I miss 2-d animation sooooo much

there were a lot more rules being broken, where 3-d animation i feel has to stick to more physical limits. I hope 2d animation never dies.

though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel_(2009_film)

i saw a test reel of the animation style for this film, and it was amazing looked like a painting. in the wiki they show a painting the style is based off of. the test reel was the painting animated, and it looked like a moving painting. i'm excited for that

I'm a huge Disney fan. My favorites are
The Little Mermaid
Pinocchio
Dumbo
Bambi
Lady and the Tramp
Beauty and the Beast

I also have an annual pass to Disneyland.

I've wanted to do this thread at various times, but I never brought myself to start it. I've got a few favorites.

Fantasia is brilliant, of course, mainly because it's not a kids' movie. It's kind of in a class by itself.

The best "fairy tale" one in my opinion is Sleeping Beauty. It's dark and sinister, has probably the best Disney villain ever, and it's otherwise beautifully drawn. The music is not too cheesy or overbearing. Even the cutsie fairy godmothers aren't terribly annoying.

I have a couple favorite "animal" films. Dumbo is a work of sheer genius, and I could argue is the best thing Disney ever did. The movie is about 65 minutes long, and every frame counts. The songs are great, the art is a perfect balance of realism and expressionism, the story is compelling, and the emotion is pure. Dumbo never speaks a word, and neither does his mother except for her name and his, and yet have any two characters in film ever expressed a level of love and affection as did those two towards each other? Glorious.

My other favorite animal film is Lady and the Tramp. The story is not as good as Dumbo, and the animation style in general is more of that 1950's and later Disney style that is just a little too sanitized. But whoever supervised the animation on this must have just LOVED dogs, because there are so many little, subtle elements of realism buried in the movements and expressions of the dogs, that you can almost feel like THIS is what dogs would do if they could talk and think like people. Little things, like a dog rolling over or putting his head down low to the ground, that are so detailed in the movements so as to make it almost appear to be photography. So good.

The best modern release (and I mark this as beginning with The Little Mermaid in 1989) is Beauty and the Beast. I really enjoy Alladin and The Lion King, but even though I've only seen it once, Beauty and the Beast really left a lasting impression on me as being very professional in all aspects of its production.

"Mary Poppins" was one of my favs when I was young. I also really liked "Aladin" and "Peter Pan".

I love pretty much all of them. Mulan is mad underrated.

it's an ironic like though, right?

Sometimes i wish i still had a VHS player so i could watch all of the old disney movies i had as a kid. My favorites were Dumbo and Pinocchio. By the time the new movies came around (like PD said, starting with the Little Mermaid) i had started to outgrow them, but looking back and watching them now they are pretty spectacular. I was always a fan of the Lion King too.

When I think of Disney movies it reminds me of all those days over the summers when my mom and my aunt would drop us and our cousins off at a matinee of things like Herbie the Love Bug or Flubber just so they could get us away from them for the day.

did you enjoy it though

There was a recent discussion of depressing/sad animation. I'm surprised no one mentioned the first part of Dumbo.

not really- my sister used to traumatize me, why else would I have turned into the raging bitch you all know and love today?

The animated movies I always loved. The regulars like I mentioned above never really did much for me.

emperor's new groove ftw

The Sword in the Stone. Genius.


also, I was at Disney California Adventure this past weekend. In the Animation Building, they had an exhibit of the original cells and pencil drawings from 1936 for Snow White, Disney's first feature-length film. Some of them had Walt's handwriting on them. Really incredible stuff.

i worked on the lot, and they had a lot of these cells up in the buildings. prolly the best part of working there

I was at a wedding recently where the couple used that song for their first dance.

And you're all forgetting to mention the best Disney movie of them all...Robin Hood.

I've never seen a lot of these movies, unfortunately. My brother and I were watching movies like Rambo and Commando when we were youths - we weren't quite raised on movies that were appropriate for us at the time. Someday when I have kids I'm sure I'll finally get around to seeing these.