Originally Posted By basil fan Oh, yeah, Nemo forever changed the way people look at clownfish. Notice they are on every book or calendar or anything fish-related. FYI, every non-Disney fan I know who likes Finding Nemo likes it primarily for the humor. Disney's Second-Class Villains <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/henchmen.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/ disney/henchmen.html</a>
Originally Posted By itsme >>Notice they are on every book or calendar or anything fish-related. -------- They have always been, Its just now because of Nemo that people notice. Clownfish have always been one of the trademark fish in this hobby everybody wants and companys use for advertising, and this was long before Nemo.
Originally Posted By Imagineer This Does anyone know now if Pixar is getting closer to going back to Disney?
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<every non-Disney fan I know who likes Finding Nemo likes it primarily for the humor>> Does that automatically make it an inferior film?
Originally Posted By arstogas >>>Hate to mention it, but gearing up a CGI animatinon division is just as expensive as a hand-drawn animation division..<<< That depends on WHERE you're gearing up, and what your business model is. Having been up close and personal with a studio that basically set up a major CGI unit from nothing over the last few years (I was not in there at the beginning, though) I can tell you that there IS a way to do this less expensively, and a LOT of smaller companies are doing it, with really stunning results. I know that the movie our studio's animators are creating, from early footage I watched as recently as last night, is going to just have some people's heads spinning, particularly considering we're doing it for between 1/4 and 1/3 of what Pixar or Disney or Dreamworks are spending.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Yep, once upstarts ( like PIXAR) become larger and build infrastructure etc.-- they become the corp. giants the new upstarts shoot for -- same in any industry --
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Regardless of the cost of CGI vs. hand-drawn, if the story isn't good, it's still a bad movie.
Originally Posted By basil fan <<every non-Disney fan I know who likes Finding Nemo likes it primarily for the humor>> << Does that automatically make it an inferior film? No, but but I was answering vbdad's post: <<The box office results were posted because I think they were << indicative of how many people viewed the story telling in Nemo. <<The animation was nothing new, it was the story that attracted <<audiences.... Guilty! The Disney Villains httpL://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/villain.html
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I think the humor is good, and if the non-Disney fans you are talking about like Shrek - then maybe the humor attracts them more than the story in any movie. I know the people I talk about nemo with - and did when it was a hit -- liked the story -- the humor held it together ( as otherwise at times it could be a pretty despressing scenaro the way the story was laid out) - but the 'happy ending' and the lessons along the way were the things that are missing from many of the non-hits -- in nemo most people I know cared that a Dad would go to the ends of the earth for his kid -- and that in turn a kid learned that his Dad just might be a little wiser than the kid was willing to give him credit for. As a parent- this is a good story line
