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I miss traditional animation.

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Thrillho:
So lately I've been periodically watching some of the Disney classics, including Aladdin (God I still mourn Robin Williams, as much as one can mourn a famous person) and I've realised that however good the Pixar classics are (I did consider the Toy Story trilogy the greatest one ever made... until they announced a fourth one) I just prefer traditional animation.

There is just something joyful, and remarkable, and a realness, a thickness to the hand drawn stuff that I really just love more than CGI no matter how good CGI gets.

Am I alone in this? What are the pros and cons? What do you guys think?

pwhodges:
Hence my love of anime.  Even there some CGI creeps in these days (and it's hard to argue against for the fancier action scenes); but it's commonly used for backgrounds rather than characters, for instance, and a lot of effort goes into making the techniques not stand apart too much.  You can see a developing showcase of Japanese animation techniques at http://animatorexpo.com/ (which I started a thread on that's being studiously ignored).

hedgie:
I'm inclined to agree.  CGI tends to look a little too uncanny valley for me much of the time.  I was rather happy when Ghibli went back to traditional cell animation, despite the expense and work entailed, and mourn their passing from feature films.

Masterpiece:
I'm not against newer forms of animation, rather against the focus on 3D modeled animation. Paperman was a movie Disney showed before Wreck-It Ralph in the cinema, and while it appears like a traditionally animated feature, most of it is computationally generated. Basically they created software that takes key frames penned by an artist and interpolates between them. It's basically having the lead artists doing what they did before and saving on the giant artist teams that do the real frames.

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Lines:
I like both, but I do feel more amazed by hand-drawn animations. Howl's Moving Castle uses both and I think it's really the perfect balance of hand drawn and computer animated. Especially those backgrounds, holy shit. But then movies like Finding Nemo are just so gorgeous in their clean lined simplicity and I think that's why it's still one of my favorites from Pixar. It felt like I was in the ocean at times. (I really regret not seeing this in 3D when it was redone for theaters.) I think there's a time and a place for CGI, but I don't like it when it clashes with the story or is just over the top. I'm having a hard time thinking of a good example at the moment, but when I do I can explain it better.

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