The song is slowed down to avoid copyright . Here is a list of all the clips shown for those who are wondering - Firebird from Fantasia 2000 - Anastasia - Mulan - Hercules - Iron Giant - Sleeping Beauty - Treasure Planet - The Iron Gaint - Atlantis: The Lost Empire - Pocahontas - The Little Mermaid - Tarzan - Pocahontas - Hercules - Aladin - Hercules - Hercules (again) - Sleeping Beauty - Noah's Arc from Fantasia 2000 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame - The Lion King - The Secret of NIMH - The Prince of Egypt - FIrebird - Night on Bald Mountain - Firebird - Dinosaur - Hercules - Pocahontas - The Lion King - The Iron Giant - The Rescuers Down Under (I think) - Hercules - Atlantis - Anastasia - The Prince of Egypt - The Hunchback of Norte Dame - The Lion King - The Price of Egypt - Night on Bald Mountain - Firebird - Night on Bald Mountain - Firebird - Night on Bald Mountain - The Hunchback of Norte Dame - Aladin - Firebird - Both from The Prince of Egypt - End is from Atlantis
Modern artists have the capacity to make good art like they have in the past. Its just that the people that fund them, corporations, want them to make profitable products over artistic ones, ignroing the fact that these two things are not mutually exclusive. Its a travesty.
I do actually enjoy the Star Wars The Clone Wars style, as it is unique in its own way. Plus the newer stuff they've been making (Bad Batch, Tales of the Republic/Empire is quite beautiful too.
Sure, but I raise you: Puss in boots the last wish, into/across the spider verse, Nimona, not a movie but Invincible, How to train your dragon (any of them, but three arguably looked the best). There’s still good animated movies, in my opinion better animated movies, and honestly life is better if you don’t complain about how bad things are and look at all the good things. TLDR: it ain’t that deep
The crazy thing is that in some of these movies they didn’t completely eliminate CGI-they used it to enhance “traditional” animation. The Prince of Egypt is a great example. They blended 2D animation and CGI beautifully in that movie.
I've always loved the prospects of mixed methods for traditional and CGI. Hell, even a lot of the traditional methods in the video are actually mixed methods. CGI generated scaling and camera movement used to streamline the process and have frame by frame consistency much more accessible to other artists. Or when CGI is used for painted backgrounds. I do miss the look of traditional media. Maybe that's the nostalgia in me, but there was something so bright, sincere, and emotional about a drawn face rather than a generated one. While strictly CGI characters can capture this kind of sincerity (many older Pixar movies, how to train your dragon, Luca are some exceptional examples) I think this sincerity is slowly being lost to safer, more marketable, and formulaic scripts. I might be biased, but movies don't have the magic and risk they used to. At least, not large production/large scale movies.
Random Fact: That part alone actually took 2 years to finished by 10 animators. no wonder it turned out so great especially this part that look like a painting 1:14.
Klaus is actually 3D cgi animation, done in the 2D classical style. Just goes to show that cgi can be amazing when implemented well, it’s just a lotta movies aren’t made with artistic freedom at the forefront but a lot are pushed out to try and make a profit
That shot of Chernabog at 1:05 and 1:07 looks straight out of a horror movie. It’s crazy to think Disney was pumping stuff like that out back in the day. Also really glad Prince of Egypt is here. One of the most beautiful movies of all time.
Well seeing as Fantasia is literal satanic Project Monarch brainwashing its not that surprising. Aleister Crowley described Walt Disney as a master of occult propaganda.
Like people have said, 3D animation totally has the capability of being beautiful and creative, like Spiderverse or Wall-E, which were the first that came to my mind, its just that studios aren't trying much anymore
It’s not that cgi is bad, but it’s the ONLY thing. I miss stuff like fantasia and akira and secret of nimh. I think Disney would be surprised at how well a traditionally hand drawn animated movie would be received if you released it now. Especially if it was a large scale epic. I think people would love that kind of thing because it’s so rare. I
Disney is such a double edged sword of a company. When they allow their creative teams to be creative, the consumate of their creations speaks for itself. Sadly, the creative teams are often overlooked for the legal teams, and corperate teams. And as of recently, the political agenda of whatever appears "hip" or makes China happy.
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 they've proven time and again that despite the image they like to project of being the "happiest place on earth", their completely devoid of ethics. My favorite recent example is them thanking the CCP for letting them film Mulan in Xinjiang (some claim that the site was just a couple miles away from a Uyger concentration camp), but other notable examples are allowing puppies to be mutilated by frostbite so they could film Snow Buddies, and of course lobbying congress to screw over American copyright laws so that Mikey Mouse (and, by extension, pretty much every IP created after the 1930's) would never enter the public domain, even though Disney made it's name on public domain stories like Snow White and Peter Pan.
I would kill to get another Fantasia movie. The way the animators brought classical pieces to life with their visual interpretations was nothing short of genius.
If they make too many then the existing ones will be cheapened. Still we might get a new Fantasia during an anniversary. 2023 marks the 100 year anniversary of the Disney company, so that's a possibility.
imo, 2d animation was beautiful because it manages to convey so much emotion and symbolism even without that much expression even if it was in an animation style that looks simple and flat, apposed to 3d animation where you can understand what the characters and plot are implying.
To me it always felt like peering into a different dimension where the reality is this animated universe, so good was the animation of the 90s/80s in western and especially eastern with anime back then. It's why that era is known as the golden age of animation. Today CG unfortunately feels extremely factory produced. It doesn't feel like im peering into a different dimension. It just looks like I'm watching a standard 3D rendering, which it is.
I love 2D animation more than 3D, but i strongly and respectfully disagree about your statement. There are some really good 3D stuff that captured same feeling as 2D like Spider-Verse, The Mitchells, Arcane, Soul and Encanto.
The final shot being Atlantis becoming swallowed by the depths of the sea is perfect, it's just like how Western/2D animation has been lost and seemingly forgotten.
Ever since the Renaissance of animation was over, it became so degenerated and ugly looking while written and animated by lousy infantile inexperienced writers/animators. "Calarts" and "the writing" makes my brain melt like gooey, just like there attendant audience🤪.
What’s crazy is that movies like Into the Spiderverse prove that even if cgi is unavoidably the new paradigm of western animation, there’s still so much room for creativity and style that studios aren’t even attempting, in favor of the generic plastic look that Disney, Dreamworks, and even to an increasing extent Pixar have exclusively cultivated.
Modern studios misunderstood everything. The thing about animation was not making it look "more realistic", because *animation can convey things that real life will never be capable of.*
It's not really about 2D vs 3D. It's about artistry. But studios these days aren't willing to give their animators then time and money then need to make high quality stuff.
@@DingDingTheRU-vidBuddy I agree on that one, well worked openly adult animation, unless its in the family guy tier of writting, doesnt tend to fare well at the box office. They have to hide it under the facade of "Wacky movie for kids" like Encanto or Spiderverse which have beautiful animation and deal with very adult issues.
When i watched new cartoon with my mom, she complained about the animation not as good as before then i explained to her "That it is up to the artist who made it, if they decided to make it that way then it is" but after i watched this i understand what she said.
@@SteveAdmienn Well, when i was a child, she took me to movie when the Reneisance Disney movies style were showing and she always bought some old and reneisance Disney (and something similiar to their art style like prince of egypt and spirit) film back then, so yeah she has a good taste.
I get the point too but I still think "little you" was right, if it really is what the artist wants (and not just monetary demand) then it should be that way
I’m 19 and my brother is 6, and it really blows my mind how different children’s animation is now versus when I was his age. It’s simple and there are only a few unique styles, the stories are boring, censored, and anti-climactic. There’s no diversity in the characters. No conflict, nothing that actually reflects reality. I’ve tried showing him movies that I liked at his age, and he says they’re all “too boring” or “too scary”. I think children’s media has lost a lot more than just it’s beauty
As a 20 year old,I can say that in the early 2010s I didnt watch anything besides cartoon shows and animated films,after I grew into middle highschool I thought I would start watching normal shows but I ended up following wwe and not watching anything except for a few cartoon movies on the occasion lol. It seems that without the beauty and artistic feeling to the animation I didnt care about watching shows after I grew out of my childhood programs. It's a sad thing now how hard it is to spot a cartoon movie or even show to watch and enjoy as an adult.
but there's definitely been quite a few exceptions to that. luckily not all animation companies are following in pursuit of what illumination has done to the industry.
Maybe your brother already contaminated by the new animated? Show him the easy to understand like from the golden era of Disney until his ready to watch the reneisance era.
This is a very profound and enlightening comment. Thanks for sharing this insight and story. 😃 I also loved these films as a kid. I rewatched Jungle Book every day as a kid.
1:18 the animators of this scene even bothered to animate the shockwave of the blast pushing the clouds and it’s even in a spherical shape. That’s some attention to detail that you rarely get with modern movies. I’m really glad that I watched these movies as a kid instead of the ones today
is a tactic used very often by studio ghibli, to always have something moving on the screen even if the scene is static, obviously I'm talking about takahata and myazaki, not the son Gorō
This is plainly not true. Plenty of 'modern' animation contains plenty of detail. Enter the Spiderverse is a good example, and not even the best modern one. Plenty of studios are doing things with grit and attention to detail. Stop letting memes dictate how you view the world.
I’m happy that movies like Klaus are carrying the torch for now. A truly seamless blend of 2d animation and 3d assets. You know it’s good when you can’t tell the difference
@@HellishSpoon Some elements like the carriage were 3D assets but the fact that I needed to watch a VFX breakdown to even notice that is a testament to the quality of the movie.
The same thing happened or indian animation There were artists creating passion projects and they experimented a lot (theya were not always a feature length movie, but they did make quality stuff)
You should give the anime movies from that time back then a chance as well. Even today the animation from that time is just mind blowing. Western went CG and Anime unfortunately suffered over the years with the new rule of quantity over quality. So both east and west degraded in animation quality :(
The camel is all alone The Firebird opened it’s eyes God’s cylinder of fire burned the page (and the ground and maybe a few soldiers lol) The scene with the waves was dark
*"MAKE WESTERN ANIMATION GREAT AGAIN!"* (As an Animator this video brings happiness and grief to my heart, have started in my career with paper and pencil and still doing it today here in America, and seeing this gives me Inspiration to keep going, thank you for this edit)
I love how much Hercules is on here. Love it for both art style and sentimental reasons as my aunt worked as one of the head concept artists. That movie was probably my favorite movie she worked on out of the bunch she did. She passed unfortunately a few years ago, but this movie always brings a smile to my face remembering the time we shared.
Never got the chance to see that film, my only exposure to Herc has been through the Kingdom Hearts games. Really cool that your aunt's work has had such an impact that it can still be felt all these years later.
It is a shame that even with the advancements of technology furthering the boundaries of what artists can do, the best animations are from the 90s and early 2000s only being surpassed in resolution.
We are in a situation where technology has progressed so far that it has become acceptable for million-dollar-an-episode TV shows to have lower visual fidelity of 70's made-for-TV stop motion. Flash itself is not a blight, but it has inspired the laziest generation in professional animation.
@@jakemalloy4947 i will take arcane over your toady Court of Versailles "new hotness" any day. Lol. It's not 'arcane" it's 'based'. Something you New Pepsi kids nevar are.
Old amation was so well made, so cool, Everything looks so great, many details, and ALL IS HAND DRAW! The olds have soul, express feelings.. now look at those new 2d & 3d cartoons. None of them have effort put into. They are souless and maked with people that only wants Suck money of the kids
@@pyroteknikk3127puss in booth and the spiderverse still give hope in the potential of the modern western animation, but I think they are more some lucky exception than something else.
I wish animators would realize that we don't care if the movie comes out quickly one after the other. We just want quality animation with time, effort, and love put into them
A big part of this issue comes from the demand of corporations. I mean Disney didn't didn't want to make Treasure Planet because the technology required to make it was slowly going out of style. The only reason it was made was because it was a passion project of two renowned animators. Even modern cartoons that try to do interesting things story and visual wise end up getting canceled because they "don't fit the brand"
That's why independent filmmaking needs to be the new norm. Today is easier than ever. You no longer need expensive ass camera rigs, rows of artist applying color, massive studios, selling your talent to the rat, etc. A bunch of people with computers have done incredible stuff.
@@DonVigaDeFierro except this is gonna end because most of cinematography is going straight to online services, so everything will be netflix / Disney recycled bs
I wish DreamWorks made more 2D movies before they shifted completely to 3D. The Prince of Egypt gives me chills every time and Spirit is my favorite animated movie.
To be fair, we now have a new generation of young independent artists that would love to stray away from industry norms and keep 2D animation alive. But sad to see such beautiful knowledge just go to waste.
@ligia the Wolf Haven't watched it, but Saberspark did a video about one animation called "Brand New Animal". It's an anime but with animals. Or you can watch Beastars, which is pretty much Zootopia but rated M.
I really hope that as the ability to animate becomes more and more accessible, independent artists can definitively prove that it's okay to break away from the "safe" model that the big studios have been clinging onto for so long. "Mainstream" animation has mostly been basically the same style for years with the only difference being how shiny the lighting effects are as time goes on. Totally superficial "innovations".
@ligia the Wolf You should watch Cartoon Saloon's movies Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells and Wolfwalkers. They're all beautiful 2D/Hand-drawn animated movies centred around irish folklore.
There are some criminally underrated movies from this era of western animation, movies like Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure planet, Pocahontas. The mixture of 2D and CGI worked really well with these movies.
I love the added touch of "image of the dead" coupled with pictures of 2D animators at 0:13. Like remembering your friends as you watch the world cave in
Because it’s a movie of faith. To make it might put thoughts into kids and their parents and we don’t want them thinking theirs more to life than what one can see, taste and touch. Pretty much all biblical stories are a no no for big studios and the prince of Egypt was a lightning in bottle type situation that probably couldn’t ever happen again. Which sucks as I would love to see Noah and the life and resurrection of Jesus down in the same way as prince of Egypt.
Do you guys remember how these older animation movies ignited our imaginations? They were captivating and magical. They were so much better than the newer movies.
Older animated movies, at least in my opinion, heavily committed to being symbolic and with that, those older movies were true pieces of art that held meaning through their symbolic and beautiful animation.
It's probably due to nostalgia, bias or some crap, but am I only the one here who thinks animated movies in the 90s and 2000s (both 2D and 3D) are incredibly beautiful and magnificent? Like, they did not only leave a significant impact in my childhood, but also subtly finessed and shaped my thoughts in thinking what a good animation is like.
This is definitely the right place to ask this question, in the comment section of a video praising old animated movies. theres no way you could be the only one HERE. Maybe its just the way you worded it, but it sounds just like "im 11 and this is deep" or "i was born in the wrong generation" type thing. sorry for the negativity.
It's not necessarily Bias to say some stuff is more beautiful than others, and in this particular case, western animations WERE a lot better before, nowadays we still have some good looking 3d movies sure, but we never saw the same quality we had during the golden age of the 90s to 2000s.
I'm an atheist but Prince of Egypt is just amazing. The beautiful use of hand drawn animation combined with the incredible musical score has created a masterpiece.
@@thegovtdoesntcareaboutyou prince of Egypt is a religious movie with religious purposes and he’s letting us know he doesn’t like the move for being religious but having a great version of the exodus and animation
In some studios, stylised animation is making a comeback. Wolf Walkers by Cartoon Saloon for example was absolutely gorgeous! I hope such skilled art becomes more popular in the future
Encanto it’s probably one of the best movies to come out in this few years Not every movie needs to have some big terrible antagonist. Sometimes stories don’t need a Satan like being to drive their characters. Encanto it’s about generational trauma so why does the villain need to be Satan?
In my opinion, since most of the older western animated movies were based of historicaly important legends and books, the creators actually respected what they were creating was based of, when you look at the shots you got for this video everything seems to have a biblical sense to it or seems like it's a piece of art that is moving, and these shots kind of act the way books and arts work, they are meant to have a deeper meaning and for us to look at it and stimulate our imagination, I'm not much into reading or art because I kind of find it boring but I understand what they mean and how important they are, it's just a shame that most of the modern animators doesn't seem to get that, they just seem like they want to make a movie with silly jokes for kids and make a profit out of it, because what I think that happened through out the years is that animators started to think: "Oh these animations are to complex, the kids won't understand what's going on" wich is wrong because these movies aren't meant "just for kids" they are meant for everyone, kids will look at these movies and even though they might not understand everything that is going on with the story, they still be stunned by the beautifull imagery, colors and artistical moments and it will stimulate their imagination, while the more grown up people will watch it and understand the meaning of what's going on and be in for a 1/2 hour incredible fun and well crafted ride, I think that what most modern animators are missing.
Alladin was not respectful to it's "origins" at all. I'd say nowadays movies are more accurate because more information about stuff like different cultures are aviable, as well as more people of different ethnicities who are a part of said culture are working in industry. The problem is not with stories, it's within the big companies: they don't want to take risks and create something original, they rely on formula and what brings money the most
@@galvanizeddreamer2051 you just crushed people's arguments on why the new star wars movie are good(because they're total CRAP!!!) Just because you like "It", dose Not mean "It" is Good, in short terms.
@@rebelrebel8398 Alladin was a Persian Story Stolen & muddled up by the Islamist. Plus when Jasmine "stole the Apple scene" the cartoon had it right, she would of had her hand cut off for thievery, but the live action was Off & Not Historically Accurate. Not according to Old world Laws & Shariah Law of Saudi Arabia.
Now we only have stuff who are for putting in the brain of children by ""modernism"" . Now I don't have read the bible, but deep down I thinks the time approch I would read it for a particular reason : Nostalgie, because I will see everything that is inspired by it and remember them, I will still be hable to learn stuff in the book too. Now wonder for the two other, sad that we don't have more clearn remaining of previous story but they where less good writter so sadly that happen.
The moment animated movies transformed from "family movies" to "childens media" everything went down the drain. Parent dont take their kids to the movies so that they all can enjoy something, but just to please the kid by showing them the thing they were fed through phone ads
that movie, that movie shaped my childhood, the mixture between ancient fantasy-like technology and modern steampunk, it sang entire symphonies to me as a kid
I got the Disney Kida doll that got released last month for the movie's 20th year celebration and it's beautiful! The movie is an amazing mark of animation history!
The fact is that Atlantis has some of the best animated sequences there has ever been on big screen. Even the characters were all very likable. Though its last 3rd is pretty meh storywise, its still clearly one of the more underrated Disney films there is. It deserved alot more.
Everyone's talking about the message but I need to give praise to the damn well made edit, it just captures what made western animation so captivating in the first place
As much as Anime currently dominates the animation scene nowadays we forget, 20th century western animation, particularly early Disney is what inspired a lot of the great Japanese animators too. This downfall of creativity could also be a sign of our own cultures decline. Sad really
Tbh Animes arent what they used to be either. Rewatching monster and its detailed art made me realize how poor todays quality is. I was amazed how Newsletters actually Had entire articles instead of lines that represent text AS a small example
@@dullinator1059 Ikr I have to agree with you. T me both anime and western have had a decline in quality and storytelling ever since this generation has started probably do to the fact that things have become way less harder now and people lack work ethic nowadays since they really don’t really have to do as much as they did back then and it is also considered in today’s world outdated. To me the prime of animation was in the 1970-2000 than the fall became around 2012 imo.
Anime aren't any better though lol, people be acting as if every anime were masterpiece but around 95% of them are isekai trash, harem bullshit, stupid shonen,... The west have way less production but a lot of amazing ones too. For instance, people always talk about Avatar, Invincible or Arcane but nobody speak about Dofus: Julith or the lastest seasons of Clone Wars.
Although the movement away from traditional 2D animation is saddening, it makes sense when it comes to industry needs and production budgets. While the 2010s were mostly an age marred by lazy cash grab animated movies, new tech and techniques make me hopeful for western animation in the future. I mean, just look at what Sony has been able to accomplish with Spider-verse and Mitchells vs The Machines, as well as recent additions from Pixar such as Luca and Soul. You can see a new way of incorporating these classic 2D animation techniques with 3D animation, and I think it's something to be optimistic for. Audiences are clearly becoming fatigued from these old cash grab movies and are responding to these fresh, creative endeavors. Just wanted to spread a bit of optimism for the industry, have a great day y'all :)
I think that the real example of the marriage between the 2D process and the 3D process is Hotel Transylvania 1. And Gennedy Tartakovsky had to fight tooth and nail for it.
With XR taking off, I'm hoping we see a return to old-school theater as well. Imagine being able to watch an authentic recreation of Shakespeare from the floor of the Globe Theater. Or Chernobog looming over you. I realize these are both unoriginal, but XR gives us an entirely new dimension where looking back and retelling stories would be absolutely acceptable, like bringing a book from the time before cinema onto film.
I noticed this in Luca too! It really felt like with that movie they took a lot of care with framing shots and putting stuff together in a more "2d" way. Hard to explain but it's definitely noticeable and I appreciated it.
You guys need to stop defending "the budget" these shitty live action remakes make billions of dollars, these companies have never had so much money, stop defending this pathetic corporate bullshit already. Fuck them and their "budget", stop accepting the absolute putrid garbage these studios produce. Disney owns like 85% of American entertainment, don't give me this fucking budget bullshit.
My passion is 2D animation and seeing this video got my surprisingly teary eyed because it was a reminder of how incredibly passionate and full of soul animations of the pre-digital age were. Everything was pain stakenly made on hand painted cels, risk taking was encouraged, original ideas were encouraged, meaningful storytelling through imagery were carefully thought out, and thee people who worked on these older animations were legends. Nowadays everything is uninspired forgettable 3D animation made not for the purpose of telling a compelling or meaningful story with a good message, but instead for how much it can create revenue and sell merchandise for the company. I’m not saying all modern animation is bad but the majority are and it sounds very cynical of me to say but it’s just true and obvious when you compare the animations before 2001 (whenever cel animation became completely obsolete) with the animations of the last decade.
Oh i completely agree with you, if i ever get a child, i will show them only these cool movies, original, risk taking, but of course, some of the modern animations as well.
Nothing will ever be the same again. It will only get worse. Our children will have nothing meaningful or of substance to observe in media. I cannot and will not move on, I refuse.
You see the same degeneration In Eastern animation as well. Look at animated Japanese films/TV from the 70's/80's and early 90's and compare the frames to the newest anime. There was a famous Japanese artist who commented on how new animators hate normal human faces and try to make their characters as cutesy and unrealistic as possible.
There’s a certain design to 80’s and 90’s anime that gets me and is my favorite. The way characters were drawn realistically and the shadow detailing and there’s like a rough grittiness to the animation to it. You see it in the old jojo ova or something like city hunter.
@@crimsondynamo615 yea the weird thing is the city hunter creator, I kinda see them sometimes on Twitter posting, they probably make the characters look like their style.
2D animation fans: Please watch CartoonSaloon's movies. They're amazing and full of life. Book of Kells, Song of the Sea, WolfWalkers, the Breadwinner are all amazing movies!!
@@danieldietz8292 adult animation and children's animation are really garbage now. Even Hollywood entertainment is straight pile of shit. The latest thats come out was the same cluche stupid horror Scream, now we have Jackass forever which just a bunch of guys doing the most disgusting and stupid idiotic things ever. Western culture in general has devolved to hustling money in a endless cage fight for scraps so you can buy material garbage that doesn't make you happy
The fact of all those movies are drawigns that were made with pencil and an incredible use of color will always feel respect for the animators to make those incredible moments
As somone who animated professionally I gotta say whats really going on is if you notice all those 2D shots at the later half of the video could easily be just as stunning in 3D because of the overall shot composition and direction. Its an artistic problem. People are getting hired onto these 3D films for technical knowledge. It takes so much time and energy to get good at anything in 3D so people specialize (rigging, modeling, UVing, texturing, lighting, hair, cloth, particles etc). Writing, acting, story telling, cinematography and a general understanding of the traditional art is neglected.
And we can see proper 3d animation shine sometimes in movies that embrace stylistic choices rather than going for realism. It can be beautiful, it's not the medium that's gone wrong here
So this is why every modern animated blockbuster from Disney, Dreamworks, that shitty Minions studio, etc look and feel the same. It all looks sterile, which is what the big wigs of Hollywood care. As long as it makes their kids happy with all the commercialized familiarity in the industry... they don't want to put any money into doing something artistically different.
Here is the list of all the films featured in this video because I noticed a lot of people here want to watch them all! Fantasia/2000 (Disney-1999) Anastasia (Don Bluth/Fox-1997) Mulan (Disney-1998) Hercules (Disney-1997) The Iron Giant (WB-1999) Sleeping Beauty (Disney-1959) Treasure Planet (Disney-2002) Atlantis (Disney-2001) Pocahontas (Disney-1995) The Little Mermaid (Disney-1989) Tarzan (Disney-1999) Aladdin (Disney-1992) Beauty And The Beast (Disney-1991) The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Disney-1996) The Lion King (Disney-1994) The Secret Of NIMH (Don Bluth/MGM-1982) The Prince Of Egypt (Dreamworks- 1998) Fantasia (Disney-1940) Dinosaurs (Disney-2000)
I genuinely feel bad for kids these days. Which is why I get so pumped when a really good animated kids movie that any one of any age can enjoy comes out and has genuine passion behind it. And if you really care about the art of animation and have little faith in it's current state, you should do everything you can to support the films made my true artists who gave their all.
What would be an example of a good western animated film made in the last few years? I'd like to support what you're talking about so it's a genuine question.
wow, goosebumps. i love your use of color in the shots you chose. the focus on reds, golds, greens and blues really give this a cohesive feel despite the animation coming out of many different movies, even across entire different companies. and bonus points for using Dinosaur. i thought i was seeing things since this mostly focused on 2d, but i watched that movie ad nauseum as a child, i'd recognize the meteor scene anywhere!
I agree man, this is edited so well to the music as well. Really grabs you and pulls you into the screen. When he says "Middle" He used the shot of Moses parting the Red Sea which was subtle and lovely. Edit: OOps he says "little" not middle. At least there's "Open eyed" and "Burn" haha
anime still put out an astronomical amount of amazing shows in the 2010's that looked gorgeous, but I definitely agree that they've only barely scratched the peak of what they had in the 90's
List of all Movies and scenes/characters: 0:00 Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania (movie poster) 0:00 The Emoji Movie (movie poster) 0:01 Ralph 2: Ralp breaks the Internet (movie poster) 0:02 Norm of the North: Family Vacation (movie poster) 0:03 Shark Tale (movie poster) 0:04: The Addams Family 2 (movie poster) 0:08 The Emoji Movie (Poop) 0:25 Fantasia 2000 (The Firebird) 0:27 Anastasia (Thorin Rei Sob a Montanha comment) 0:27 Mulan (huns descending the mountains) 0:28 Hercules (Hercules singing before leaving to look for Zeus) 0:29 The Iron Giant (The Iron Giant leaping to space to prevent atomic blast in the city) 0:30 Sleeping Beauty (little before Maleficent transformation) 0:31 Treasure Planet (Jim escaping death by lava) 0:32 The Iron Giant (ships shooting at the Iron Giant) 0:33 Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Kida ascension to the heart of Atlantis) 0:33 Pocahontas (Pocahontas and John running) 0:34 Pocahontas (Pocahontas bathing) 0:36 Tarzan (very start of the movie, ship flooding and Tarzan's parents escaping) 0:36 no idea 0:37 Hercules (Hercules reaching the Olympus) 0:38 Aladdin (Aladdin entering the cave of wonders) 0:38 Hercules (Hercules sacrificing himself to save Megara) 0:39 Hercules (Pyros on the move) 0:40 Beauty and the Beast (The Enchanted Rose losing a petal) 0:41 no idea 0:41 Joseph: King of Dreams (not sure) 0:43 The Lion King (Scar fighting Simba) 0:44 no idea 0:45 The Prince of Egypt (10 egyptian plagues, thunderstorm of hail and fire) 0:46 Fantasia 2000 (The Firebird, not sure) 0:47 Fantasia (Chernabog) 0:49 Fantasia 2000 (The Firebird) 0:51 Dinosaur (meteor fall scene) 0:52 Hercules (not sure, could be Pocahontas) 0:52 Pocahontas (river crossing) 0:54 The Lion King (Simba "baptism") 0:56 Dinosaur (reversed, not sure) 0:57 no idea 0:57 Hercules (the titans scaling mount Olympus) 0:58 Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Kida using the heart of Atlantis) 0:59 Anastasia (Thorin Rei Sob a Montanha comment) 1:00 The Prince of Egypt (the jews crossing the divided water of the Red Sea) 1:01 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Quasimodo playing the bells of the church) 1:03 The Lion King (Mufasa's spirit talking to Simba) 1:04 The Prince of Egypt (10 egyptian plagues, thunderstorm of hail and fire) 1:04 Fantasia 2000 (Chernabog) 1:05 Fantasia 2000 (not sure) 1:05 0:47 Fantasia (Chernabog) 1:07 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Quasimodo in rage lifting Esméralda) 1:10 Aladdin (The Peddler riding a camel) 1:11 Fantasia 2000 (The Firebird) 1:12 The Prince of Egypt (God stopping the egyptian from reaching the jews at the Red Sea) 1:15 The Prince of Egypt (Moses dividing the Red Sea) 1:17 Atlantis: The Lost Empire (very start of the movie, Atlantis people reaching for the city escaping an explosion caused by a weapon they made) 1:17 Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Atlantis people reaching the city while the barrier is activating) 1:30 Atlantis people reaching (the city collapsing under the sea) Hope this helps. If you know the name of the missing/not sure movies please leave a comment here
It's not even the so-called 'death' of hand-drawn animation that gets me. It's that it had to dissolve into something so forgettable in "Brother Bear" that does get me.
Animation has always had its ups and downs. Don't tell me you don't remember the weird straight-to-video sequels of the Disney animated movies (Tarzan 2, Mulan 2, Fox and the hound 2...) But nowadays, it's mostly downs, while ups are becoming more and more rare.
@@DonVigaDeFierro I’d recommend Hilda for a very nice integration of a crayon comic style into an animated format, plus it’s a show that has so much love put into it that it never fails to restore my faith in the future of animation.
As a visual artist myself, it hits me hard seeing such hard work and excellence. They knew how to kill animation back then, esp in the 90s. Jeez, where did the talent go?
The talent is still very much there just look at animation schools RU-vid accounts. Those students however get employed by companies that don’t want to pay them properly and who want to go with cheaper age options.It’s not a lack of talent but a lack of investment in the final product
@@di7209 I suppose I mean the talent in the movies themselves. It's not just movies. The music industry is also producing music of far less quality than a couple of decades. Entertainment as a whole has become a factory to churn out product as cheaply as possible. There are without a doubt highly talented individuals out there, but the corporations are more interested in putting out second rate empty nothingness.
Sauce: 0:25, 0:41, 0:45, 0:47, 0:46, 0:48, 0:49, 1:04, 1:05 Fantasia(the older versions is the old Fantasia while the newer ones are from the more or less recent Fantasia) 0:26, 0:59 Anastasia 0:27 Mulan 0:28, 0:37, 0:38, 0:39, 0:56 Hercules 0:29, 0:31 Iron Giant 0:29 Sleeping Beauty 0:30, 0:56 Rescuers Down Under 0:32, 0:56 Atlantis The Lost Empire 0:33, 0:36(??), 0:53 Pocahontas 0:34 Little Mermaid 0:38, 1:09 Aladdin 0:40 Beauty and the Beast 0:42, 0:54, 1:02 Lion King 0:44 The Secret of the Nimh 0:45, 1:00, 1:03, 1:13 Prince of Egypt 0:51 Dinosaur 1:01, 1:08 The Hunchback of Notre Dam Most of them overlap each other, also I think these are the only ones here
While I love 2D and miss seeing it in movies, certain 3D movies give me hope for the future of animation. Into the spiderverse, Arcane, etc. While they're styles are similar their execution is where my focus lies and it is phenomenal. Here's hoping for a new glorious era soon, be it 2D or 3D. 🏆
What they're doing in animation like Spiderverse and Arcane is applying a lot of the principles of 2D animation to 3D animation, as well as a blending of the two. The effects in Arcane were 2D, characters were also boldly shaded to give a 2D effect in something similar to cell-shading. I hope other animation houses catch on.
I think the issue isn’t medium though. More so style and drive of the company. 3D has accomplished things that made me absolutely be amazed by its beauty. But it doesn’t matter if the story itself is trash everytime.
Я благодарна художникам прошлых десятилетий,что они рисовали такие шикарные мультики,не спали ночами,они подарили мне шикарное детство. Сейчас большинство студий не пытаются даже приблизиться к рисовке прошлого, просто один и тот же конвейер. Нет изюминки.
I mean, it really is no surprise that Japanese Animation has become so popular in the West. The alternative is watching the garbage that the studios here produce
It isn't even about franchises, it's about selling merch and making the most cash out of it until it is forgotten because of how unimportant and bland it was
Movies were always about making money. This was just back when making a good story was your most profitable business model. This last decade probably had more amazing shit than the 90s but the quality was far less consistent
Ironically, I still think stupid TV shows made explicitly to sell toys to children are still better than modern cartoons. Gen 1 Transformers, Swat Kats, Thundercats, He-Man, all have far more charm and creativity even with their abysmal budgets. As for movies, I feel it is less making money being the issue, it's making money without putting forth the effort, or genuine incompetence. Modern executives would rather turn out a hundred cheap and soulless corporate cashgrabs (See: every reboot made since 2012) rather than a few expensive art pieces, because "the risk is too high." Meanwhile they spends billions on movies with no creative vision, or made by tallentless hacks, because they were duped by a gimmick. (See: Avatar, the blue-people one that ripped off The Meek)
@@blueshit199 Yes and no. Woke agendas made animation studios lose their quality. Now there is just the same gay stuff over and over again, until people get tired of it. Which would be the catalyst in Disney's downfall.
As a 3D animator studying 2D animation, all I have to say is "Yes". I like to say that "With great limitations comes great criativity" and that's why the modern art is so... Weird, unoriginal and extremely artificial nowdays. we are already getting on a cyberpunk point where the things are changing and big companies having their own bands, musical groups and other types of "art" just as a form of business...
This edit has more life more life put into it than the money grabbing garbage pumped out by the large producers. We’re heading towards fully automated entertainment if we don’t actively search for the beauty produced by smaller producers. Well done and thank you!
It's not included in here but Kenai's transformation scene from Brother Bear is another gem of western animation, it's a shame the state of western animation's gone so downhill :(
Honestly, i showed a kid an animated series that was about robots which was very...very....very...old Nad he LIKED IT! Media is manipulating us to think that "children and teens aren't smart, they dont know a thing...make something stupid and show them"
I watched Anastasia and Prince of Egypt again over the last week and damn, I forgot how pretty hand drawn movies were, along with how great the soundtracks were also
As a kid I loved western animation, I loved how the 3D computer generated models were not the main part of the movie, rather as things used to support the hand drawn animations, it allowed the artists to do what they couldn't do or would have had a hard time doing with traditional animation. Now that I'm older, all I see are lazy 3D CGI movies that feel like they came out of a factory, occasionally there are good movies like Into the spider verse and Klaus, but most of time it's just CGI movies.
@@friendist9323 it's a good indie movie, it's one of the few completely 2d animated movies made in the 2010's, while it is 2D, there are 3D models used but they're only to complement the traditional animation, and they're colored in a way that makes them look like they were drawn. I totally recommend you watch it, great Christmas movie
@@alxndrmzksm8387 if you want a good animated tv show, I'd recommend Hilda- even though it's for kids, it's very well written and the humor is actually well done, not to mention the very cozy and warm animation style.
I’m currently studying for a degree in 3D animation, but I still have massive respect for the 2D animation that paved the way for 3D. I’ll always be the first to admit that I went into 3D because I know I’m not good enough for 2D. It’s easier to have a character rig. It’s easier to not have to draw every frame, and have the program do some of the heavy lifting for you. But I’m also proud to say that 3D is still difficult. It’s still animating. It’s still putting life into a character. And when I see where some studios have gone - with things like Spiderverse, or Mitchells vs. the Machines, or Arcane or Luca - I can’t help but be excited to graduate and put my skills in 3D to use to make beautiful works that can amaze audiences. 2D still holds a very special place in my heart, don’t get me wrong. And I love seeing when 2D is still applied. I feel like with the direction things are going right now, where 2D and 3D are merging together, is amazing, and will only continue to grow and evolve to be something that people in the future will be nostalgic over
