Part of the afternoon was me toting my bag of unwanted 401(k) books from floor to floor at the Disney Hat Building. (Hmmm. Wonder why nobody wants to jump into the stock market just now? ...)
The long entry hall had pieces of animation from Princess and the Frog playing on monitors in the display cases: rough pencil tests, cleaned up pencil tests, color, the whole shebang. And know what? It looks like a Disney hand-drawn feature.
I'm still getting a few questions about the 45-hour workweek, but more people have (apparently) become resigned to it or more accepting. Probably some of both.
I got a quick gander of some visual development work happening on Rapunzel, about which one of the folks on the top floor said:
"We're digging into different European locales and castles, looking at what's been done before, deciding what we can use, creating new stuff. We show a lot of the work to John [Lasseter] soon to see what he likes.
The visual development has kicked into a higher gear, but animation is still a bit of a ways off. Character modelling that I saw for an upcoming featurette also looks like enticing.
The long and short of it is, the House of Mouse has its animated properties lined up on the runway, and each is lifting off in its turn.
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Hopefully, at last, have decided to adapt SNOW QUEEN for the next 2D Disney movie afer PRINCESS AND FROG.
Is Rapunzel really still going to be 3D? I figured they'd decide to make that 2D by now...seems logical.
PS) my verification word was "logick" How appropriate.
According to Slashfilm: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/02/28/wondercon-the-princess-and-the-frog-and-the-future-of-2d-aniamtion-at-disney/
"Disney plans to have a digital animated film out every 18 months and a traditional hand-drawn animated feature out every two and a half years. The Princess and the Frog is scheduled to hit theaters later this year, and the digitally animated Rupunzel is scheduled for 2010."
Rapunzel has been in a creative death spiral for so many years, it's embarrassing. Tired of hearing about its "progress".
Mont Saint-Michel castle... please!
You can be tired of hearing about its "progress" for sure in a little less than two years. Come Chrismas 2010 you won't have anything to complain about.
No he's right in my opinion, with the kicking out of Glen Keane after working on it for years, I'm surprised they haven't shelved it yet. I hope these new directors are going with John's vision of the film - less they want to get fired like the rest of them...
I am frankly tired of people talking about things they obviously know little or nothing about online. Glen was not fired or "kicked out" as you put it, he left after having a minor heart attack. People love to watch those in the spot light "fail", but the truth is that Glen bowed out with no disgrace to his name.
Then why did the other co-director leave at the same time as him?
Did he have a heart attack as well?
It would make sense to replace Glen, not both of them. So something tells me it was part of the story as to the reason he stepped down.
Along with his co-director.
The co-director left because of a shared vision with Glen that not be realized without him on the film. That's pretty much it-- people love to make things bigger than they are.
I suspect that if Rapunzel would have been in better shape, a minor heart attack would not have stopped glen from directing.
We all know (and by "we," I mean current and former WDAS employees) that Rapunzel has been in less-than-stellar shape for a while. Im still not entirely convinced its going to work out, but we'll see. I trust Byron will do his best, thats for sure.
As much as I would love to hear more gossip... I'm looking for color work: BG paint/color stylist extroidenaire. 21 years in this business and just went on hiatus. Do any of you have any leads?
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