Disney brings back the cartoon short

Post by **ElFlorro** » October 10th, 2005, 8:05 pm

Andreas Deja visited one of the most famous TV Shows in Germany "TV total" with host Stefan Raab last week on Thursday Oct., 6th. He said that he is currently working on a new Disney short, featuring traditional animtion. Does anybody know what the short is about?

Post by **Ben** » October 10th, 2005, 9:58 pm

We posted a bit about this in an exclsuive discussion with Andreas at the beginning of August:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003772.html

Specifially:

AN: Have you ever thought about directing a film?

AD: I don't think I'm quite ready to direct a feature film because you're so involved in storytelling. I know you have the story crew who is working with you, but I will be doing a short film for the studio.

AN: Which one?

AD: It's my own . . . it's going to be 2D.

AN: Is it too early to tell what it is?

AD: Yeah, a little too early. It's in those early stages. It's going to be a personal film. It's going to be inspired by the work of T. S. Sullivant. It's going to be spontaneous, and something fresh, something character-driven. Totally character-driven.

AN: And that'll probably just be released to theaters with another movie.

AD: That's what I understand, yeah. I would like to animate the whole thing, have two assistants maybe to help me with the follow up, and just make it really fun.

AN: So is it based on any existing characters or all new?

AD: It's all new.

Post by **Christian** » October 11th, 2005, 2:53 am

Why does this sound vaguely familiar?

Post by **ElFlorro** » October 11th, 2005, 1:20 pm

Hey! Thank you very much for the response!!!

Post by **Wonderlicious** » October 11th, 2005, 1:47 pm

On the poll, I had to vote "yes". I really think traditional animation murdering Eisner is out the house, 2D animated shorts could become more frequent and actually help to make a 2D comeback, and it's great training ground for bigger things...who knows!

Post by **PatrickvD** » October 11th, 2005, 1:59 pm

I hope they show it with one of disney's upcoming animated films... like American Dog or Wilbur Robinson... just to show Disney is actually animating again.

Post by **ShyViolet** » October 11th, 2005, 2:24 pm

I'd see anything new 2d from Disney (as long as it doesn't end in "O"!)

J/K

Post by **Christian** » October 12th, 2005, 12:44 am

Like Chicken Little-O?

Post by **ShyViolet** » October 12th, 2005, 11:41 am

I was just kidding...I meant Destino or Lorenzo. (being exec produced by Roy Disney and all.)

I'm sure that they're good films.

Post by **Christian** » October 12th, 2005, 12:41 pm

I've seen Lorenzo three times. I haven't seen Destino yet.

Post by **askmike1** » December 3rd, 2006, 3:47 pm

Disney tries out new talent in an old form, the cartoon short
Moviegoers who have become inured to ads and trivia quizzes before the film may soon be getting something that's old enough to seem new: cartoon shorts.

After a hiatus of nearly 50 years, Walt Disney Studios is getting back into the business of producing short cartoons, starting with a Goofy vehicle next year. The studio has released a few shorts in recent years, but they were more artistic exercises than commercial endeavors. The new cartoons, by contrast, spring from an effort by a new leadership team at Pixar Animation Studios, now a Disney unit, to put the company back at the forefront of animation, with a form that it pioneered......

Post by **Meg** » December 3rd, 2006, 5:10 pm

Fantastic! It's so exciting to see the direction that Disney is now taking.

Post by **Ben** » December 3rd, 2006, 5:12 pm

Shame they couldn't put their 160 soon to be unemployed onto these...

But Goofy in "How To...Install Your Home Theater"? YES!

BTW...this is hysterical - have the article read to you (but they can't say Lasseter!):
http://83.231.141.195/cgi-bin/nph-neosp ... =15905.mp3

Post by **Christian** » December 3rd, 2006, 6:01 pm

Wrote to Dick Cook about three years ago suggesting they bring back a regular program of animated shorts. Since I wasn't an employee then (or now) they probably read the suggestion and thought, "Where do these looneybins come from?" Now it comes back and everyone says Lasseter is a genius.

Post by **Meg** » December 3rd, 2006, 6:03 pm

http://83.231.141.195/cgi-bin/nph-neosp ... =15905.mp3

Who is this "LazEEder" they speak of?

Disney brings back the cartoon short

disney works on new traditional animated short...

Disney brings back the cartoon short