Making Drawings Move

A fine gallery of Animators at Work.

Many of you have probably read this article that says that the Disney Studio has no current projects involving hand-drawn animation and no plans to do more of it in the future. I am not one of those folks who finds something aesthetically wrong with animation via computer. At first, it bothered me but I'm coming to accept it as something that in the right hands can be just as wonderful in its own way. The main problem I have with Disney's abandonment of the process is that there are so many people who are around and are good at it. Those people need a place to do that and also to teach their craft to others. It's an art form unto itself and it largely has to be learned by working with those who do it well. If they don't make any hand-drawn films for five years and then suddenly they do, they can't presume the talent and expertise will be there.