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Re: Disney Reusing Animations
Animation can be an extremely laborious business, so who can blame cartoon wizards at Walt Disney for trying to lighten the load for a hard-working staff?
To churn out more films quickly, Disney cunningly decided to 'recycle' (some may say rip off) some of the animation sequences from his best loved films.
Animators would breathe new life into old acetates by tracing over the characters with new ones, while maintaining the moves of the original.
The technique is called rotoscoping and industry insiders say it is a legitimate method of cutting costs in movie-making. So, if you thought the likes of Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book and Cinderella felt strangely repetitive, you were on to something.
It has been known for some time that much of Disney's 1973 Robin Hood movie was a copy of previous films at a time when the studio was short on cash, but most people were unaware of such wholesale copying until it was exposed on YouTube.
The revelation has been greeted with a mixed response - with some fans applauding Disney's ingenuity and others complaining their childhood was a lie.
Source: Metro
Re: Disney Reusing Animations
It doesn't matter because those movies kick ass.
Re: Disney Reusing Animations
When you take in to account how much hand drawing was involved, its not that suprising. They are cartoons after all, how many cartoon tv series had the same backrounds every week?
I think its pretty cool, and I think I kinda realised it before - but just never stopped to analyse it. All old fashioned cartoons from the same studios have a familiarity about them thats almost reassuring when you are young.
I wish they would start making animated films the old fashioned way again, I dont mind modern methods too much but to me cartoons should be drawn.
I seen a documentary on Disney and Pixar etc, apparantly the computer age completely buried old fashioned animation.
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think of them doing that shit back in the 50's and 60's its fucking beautiful...also kids love repetition, they feel comforted by it, disney realized this even back then, and the animation isnt really reused they still had to animate the other characters they prolly just used the slides as templates for other movies and drew right over top of them...
the nerd who figured this out needs a hobby 
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