by Elton John » February 14th, 2020, 4:02 pm
Yeah.
It was the movie that slowly killed traditional hand drawn animation at theaters. As good as it was, it killed many careers of veteran animators who couldn’t transition to cgi. In the past 10 years only a handful of movies, East or West were traditional animation. Outside of Ghibli Japan mostly moved on to digital animation for 2D stuff and most 2D features in America like spongebob and teen titans go to the movies were digital. There was Ernest and Celestine which was gorgeous but also the exception, it was done the old way.
Ghibli was the last Japanese studio that still animated the old way when every other anime studio moved on to digital 2D or cgi.
Digital animation has gotten better in the past 20 years but still looks crap compared to Snow White, Bambi, the old Fliescher Superman shorts..
Though, it is unfair to blame it all on Toy Story. Most 2D movies by Disney after The Lion King were not nearly as popular and something like Lilo and Stitch is mainly popular because of Stitch. He sells merch by the truckloads everywhere. If someone argued he was Disneys most popular character worldwide I wouldn’t argue against them.
CGI movies now look utterly gorgeous compared to their start but I think the best of the 2D stuff from Disney, Ghibli, Don Bluth and whatnot topple them.
Why do we fall? So that we can learn to pick ourselves back up again.