Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA In the latest issue of Time Magazine and also on Time.com, article by movie critic Richard Corliss. <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/magaz ine/article/0</a>,9171,1106334,00.html <Can Mickey Find His Mojo? Disney is trying to kick its animation division back to life by (finally) embracing the computer. TIME gets an exclusive peek at its first four films In the old fairy tale, a fretful fowl named Chicken Little gets bonked by an acorn, mistakes this minor incident for an astral calamity and frightens the neighbors by exclaiming, "The sky is falling!" In the world of traditional animation, when computer-generated (CG) 3-D cartoons came in, the sky did fall. The first piece was Pixar, with such movies as Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. Another chunk was DreamWorks (the Shreks). And, yes, an outfit called Blue Sky fell too, with Ice Age and Robots. Hand-drawn, or 2-D, animation was instantly kaput. Chicken Little was right. In a decade, CG animation has achieved a commercial and artistic revolution. It has also achieved something else: it annihilated the Disney cartoon feature. Now, with a fresh team at the company--CEO Robert Iger, film-studio boss Richard Cook and animation chief David Stainton--Disney has begun the arduous process of remaking itself. "It's like a battleship changing course," Cook says. "It takes a while, but we're moving in the right direction." They are indeed, to judge from the exclusive peek they offered TIME of their first four CG theatrical features. Disney surely has a winner in its debut effort, Mark Dindal's Chicken Little, which opens Nov. 4. It's one of the funniest, most charming and most exhilarating movies in years. And it's a genuine Disney cartoon, with a storytelling sense and graphic precision worthy of the old animation masters.> ______________ There's more to the story, but was struck by Corliss' comments about 'Chicken Little' -- it really sounds good!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>by (finally) embracing the computer<< This is a wild exxageration by Mr. Corliss, of course, since computers have been used by Disney since Tron and in every animated feature that followed, from one degree or another. But I'm glad to read that they liked Chicken Little.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA >>by (finally) embracing the computer<< Well...perhaps he means making an animated movie that's totally CG -- of which 'Chicken Little' is the first.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Well Jim, we all know from WE's that Time is a Leftie rag and chickens are too, so go figure huh?!
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I didn't know that chickens were liberals. Although both democrats and chickens claim the sky is falling, right? Or that the globe is warming... or something...
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Time magazine likes Chicken Little? So what, I like chicken fingers but that doesn't get national press.
