old dogs and new tales
The first teaser for The Princess and the Frog, Disney's fabled (ahem) return to "traditional" animation is live. I'm reserving judgment until more of the content becomes available, save to say I'm rooting for this project on principle. It's fucking retarded that some people within and without the industry think "2D" animation has been categorically superseded by full-blown CGI. I'm using quotation marks to acknowledge how problematic such distinctions are in the first place, since there's considerable overlap between modern cel and computer-generated features at the production level, and the contrast between the two approaches is best defined aesthetically rather than technologically. Kudos to the comparatively recently installed Pixar brain trust for seeing that.