Non-Pixar Cartoons on BD. Yay or Nay???

[jaydee808]

I'm looking to pickup Aladdin and Lion King and know it's not out on BD yet. My question is are cartoons PQ and AQ on BD a lot superior to DVD?

If it is, I'll probably wait for BD even though it may be a while.

Thanks

[Kirsty_Mc]

Should be if the cartoon was done on 35mm and the drawing justifies it.

[BozQ]

Cel animation can look gorgeous if the transfer is done right.
Just look at The Simpsons Movie.

[DeadDog]

Originally Posted by BozQ

Cel animation can look gorgeous if the transfer is done right.
Just look at The Simpsons Movie.

Yep, also look at Sleeping Beauty, beautiful transfer.

[sfmarine]

Originally Posted by DeadDog

Yep, also look at Sleeping Beauty, beautiful transfer.

Sleeping Beauty is stunning!

[DetroitSportsFan]

Pinocchio also looks great.

[STARSCREAM]

YES. Will blow dvd out.

[Jodi]

Absolutely! Especially if the film gets good TLC in the process.

Jodi

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by jaydee808

I'm looking to pickup Aladdin and Lion King and know it's not out on BD yet. My question is are cartoons PQ and AQ on BD a lot superior to DVD?
If it is, I'll probably wait for BD even though it may be a while.

Thanks

Yes. Significantly.

[Batman1980]

I say yes as long as the animation style justifies it or you don't have the movie on DVD. Blu-ray will generally clean up the picture and fill the colors up better, making for a much better picture.

[Octavio]

I want all Miyazaki films on BD!

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by Octavio

I want all Miyazaki films on BD!

I agree but I think for America we will get Ponyo first assuming it comes out same date as the dvd release.

[Edawg72]

Originally Posted by Octavio

I want all Miyazaki films on BD!

Especially Castle In The Sky!!!Watched that the most with my son!!

[Batman1980]

I want Do you Remember Love on blu-ray, especially since it's not really available on any format right now.

[Kyo28]

Just a side-note: technically speaking Akira, Dragon Ball Z and Miyazaki movies aren't cartoons, they're anime. I always cringe when anime and cartoons get thrown together in the same pot.

As for the question, I would say Simpsons and Futurama look awesome but have indeed received quite a bit of digital tweaking.

Other examples of how cartoons can look good on Blu are the animated Marvel one-shots: Hulk vs, The Invincible IronMan, etc or the DC animated one-shots, like Green Lantern.

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by Kyo28

Just a side-note: technically speaking Akira, Dragon Ball Z and Miyazaki movies aren't cartoons, they're anime. I always cringe when anime and cartoons get thrown together in the same pot.

Cartoon in this sense is used as a general term for animation (check out the linked Wikipedia articles for other things the term might apply to). Not all cartoons are anime, but to say that an anime is not a cartoon is to decry the true word because it "babyfies" the art-form. It's crap like this that make people use the COMPLETELY incorrect term "graphic novel" when in reality it's a comic book. It's even gotten so bad that hardcover collected editions of individual comic book issues are called graphic novels. It's terrible.

In other words, Spirited Away is a cartoon and Watchmen is a comic book. Deal with it.

As for the question, I would say Simpsons and Futurama look awesome but have indeed received quite a bit of digital tweaking.

Digital tweaking NOTHING. They are animated digitally. They never touch cels.

Other examples of how cartoons can look good on Blu are the animated Marvel one-shots: Hulk vs, The Invincible IronMan, etc or the DC animated one-shots, like Green Lantern.

Yeah, if you're going to talk about traditional-style animation in general, the Marvel and DC cartoons are worth noticing, although I would say that each subsequent one looks better than the one that came before it.

Originally Posted by GMLSKIS

Tinkerbell has the best picture quality of anything I've seen.

Those are CG renders. I think the point of the thread is to talk about traditional "2-D" animation.

ps I would like to echo what F-Man said. For traditional animation, the line art serves as a hard-edged place where the higher resolution really shines. The reason is that edges in color is where higher resolution is most needed, and it doesn't get any harder of an edge than lineart in traditional animation. This is most apparent in traditional animation when it's created digitally, but Disney has proven that good remastering can show off nice edges of cel animated works as well.