What Is The Best Looking Disney Blu-ray ?

[BluMack]

Since they always seem to deliver in this department especially better than most, what do you all think is the best looking Disney film on Blu Ray ? Based on Picture Quality only. Out of these categories Animation, CGI, & Live Action or just overall.


My Picks

1. 2D Animation: Alice In Wonderland
2. CGI: Wall e
3. Live Action: Tron Legacy

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by BluMack

Since they always seem to deliver in this department especially better than most, what do you all think is the best looking Disney film on Blu Ray ? Based on Picture Quality only. Out of these categories Animation, CGI, & Live Action or just overall.


My Picks

1. Animation: Alice In Wonderland
2. CGI: Wall e
3. Live Action: Tron Legacy

Mine:

1. Animation: The Princess and the Frog
2. CGI: Wall-E
3. Live Action: TRON: Legacy

[Daikichi Kawachi (河地大吉)]

The Princess & The Frog is the best looking hand drawn animation on BD in my opinion.

[Chloenator]

These are my choices...

2D Animation: Beauty and the Beast
CGI: A Bug's Life
Live Action: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

[TabascoKid]

Sleeping Beauty. It looks like a moving painting

[SwaggerJagger]

I think the Toy Story Trilogy looks amazing in HD.
Does the Help count as a "Disney" movie? If so, it looks really good too.

[Rik1138]

I haven't seen them all, but I'd have to throw a vote out to Lion King for best looking 2D animation. I was completely blown away by the digital projection in theaters, and the quality of the Blu-ray. It's a reference-title for me when I was shopping for a new TV (as was Tron...)

It also wins for one of the best ever 2D-3D conversions I've ever seen (and I really don't buy into the whole 3D thing... Don't even have it at home, except for that Sony Personal Viewer thing... Neat gimmick, but it's still a gimmick to me.)

But I bet any of their 'catalog' traditionally animated features look incredible. Disney does not skimp on quality when it comes to those... (Princess & The Frog I don't think is hand-drawn. It's 2D, but I think even Disney largely does all of it on computers these days...)

CGI: Bolt or any of the Pixars...
And I'll agree with Tron: Legacy for live action.

Pick your favorite vault title, Pixar (or Bolt) film, and Tron and you can't go wrong...

[philistine]

Animation: Alice In Wonderland (the colors were amazing in this one)

CGI: Cars (could really pick any Pixar movie but this one struck me as just a bit better)

Live Action: Tron Legacy (with all the colored light, this movie impressed beyond all other live action movies I've seen from Disney)

[enigmawing]

Originally Posted by Rik1138

(Princess & The Frog I don't think is hand-drawn. It's 2D, but I think even Disney largely does all of it on computers these days...)

While it does have CG elements and digital coloring, it's still definitely a hand-drawn feature as the characters are drawn by hand.

[The Mad Kiwi]

Hand-Drawn Animation: Alice in Wonderland/Sleeping Beauty*
CGI: WALL-E
Live-Action: Tron Legacy

* It's difficult for me to choose. Alice is perfect for showing how much the colors on your TV can pop. Sleeping Beauty's crazy levels of detail are perfect for demonstrating how much 2-D animation can benefit from Blu-ray. A friend of mine who doesn't even like the latter very much gained a new appreciation for it after borrowing my copy and seeing how lavish the backgrounds are.

[Moviefan2k4]

I don't keep track of Blu-Rys by studio, but some of my faves are "Beauty and the Beast", "Race to Witch Mountain", and the first three "Pirates" (don't have the fourth). I also agree with BluMack about "Alice in Wonderland".

[thebard]

As much as I love the Pixar stuff, I have to put my cgi cote in for "Tangled". The animators wanted something unique, and tried to capture an "oil painting" type of look; something more organic than typical cgi. They succeeded, IMO.

Live action: definitly "Tron".
Traditional animation: refraining from comment until I have my copy of "Lady and the Tramp".

[BluMack]

Originally Posted by The Mad Kiwi

Hand-Drawn Animation: Alice in Wonderland/Sleeping Beauty*
CGI: WALL-E
Live-Action: Tron Legacy

* It's difficult for me to choose. Alice is perfect for showing how much the colors on your TV can pop. Sleeping Beauty's crazy levels of detail are perfect for demonstrating how much 2-D animation can benefit from Blu-ray. A friend of mine who doesn't even like the latter very much gained a new appreciation for it after borrowing my copy and seeing how lavish the backgrounds are.

I agree with everything you said.

[Lsalas76]

My Picks are:

2D animated:
Beauty and the Beast

CGI:
Tangled

Live Action:
Tron Legacy

[DarknessBDJM]

In my opinion.

Overall- A Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D's 2-D disk.

2-D- Sleeping Beauty. Lady and the Tramp as the runner up.

CGI- Up. Wall-E and A Bug's Life the runners up.

Live Action- Tron. Tron Legacy the runner up.

Licensed Out- Ernest Scared Stupid. Halloween 6 (Alliance) the runner up. Disney did the scanning and mastering and they look far better than a super budget title and 14.3 GB 1080i file (Mill Creek and Alliance did excellent encoding as well).

[Rik1138]

Originally Posted by enigmawing

While it does have CG elements and digital coloring, it's still definitely a hand-drawn feature as the characters are drawn by hand.

I guess that just depends on what you mean by 'hand drawn'. For me, 'traditional hand-drawn' animation means the entire cel for each frame is drawn and painted, by hand, on acetate and photographed/scanned onto film. Backgrounds are painted and photographed behind the cels.

_Thats_ traditional 2D animation, and it pretty much died in 1990's.

Princess and the Frog brought back some of that in that the characters were all animated by hand (pencil outlines of the characters). These were then scanned into a computer and all the coloring done digitally... I don't consider that a traditionally animated feature since, ultimately, everything you see onscreen was created in a computer. The hand-drawn part is just the movement of the characters.

And, now that I've done a little more research, I see Lion King doesn't qualify... I thought LK was Disney's last truly hand-drawn/painted feature. Looks like Little Mermaid gets that honor (although with at least a scene or two done with computer help I believe). (But LK still looks damn good. )

Originally Posted by thebard

As much as I love the Pixar stuff, I have to put my cgi cote in for "Tangled". The animators wanted something unique, and tried to capture an "oil painting" type of look; something more organic than typical cgi. They succeeded, IMO.

Forgot all about that one... Yes, a very good looking feature that had some really nice visuals in it...

I still say, when it comes to animation of any kind, pretty much all of Disney's titles are winners.

[enigmawing]

Originally Posted by Rik1138

I guess that just depends on what you mean by 'hand drawn'. For me, 'traditional hand-drawn' animation means the entire cel for each frame is drawn and painted, by hand, on acetate and photographed/scanned onto film. Backgrounds are painted and photographed behind the cels.

_Thats_ traditional 2D animation, and it pretty much died in 1990's.

Princess and the Frog brought back some of that in that the characters were all animated by hand (pencil outlines of the characters). These were then scanned into a computer and all the coloring done digitally... I don't consider that a traditionally animated feature since, ultimately, everything you see onscreen was created in a computer. The hand-drawn part is just the movement of the characters.

And, now that I've done a little more research, I see Lion King doesn't qualify... I thought LK was Disney's last truly hand-drawn/painted feature. Looks like Little Mermaid gets that honor (although with at least a scene or two done with computer help I believe). (But LK still looks damn good. )

Perhaps you should refer to it as "'hand-crafted" or even "hand-painted" animation instead. But seriously, I guess it does depend on one's definition.

Back in the 1960's many animators were ecstatic about the Xerography process since their actual drawings would appear on the screen (due to being directly copied onto cels for painting, instead of losing their vitality through the hand-traced inks). Scanning into a computer using CAPS (and now Toon Boom) takes that one step further, allowing them to color the line art itself as if it was ink as well as "paint" in the flats, while still allowing the original hand-drawn elements to appear on the screen (once again, as opposing to being traced).

I guess I really don't understand how producing an animated film digitally discounts the fact that it's traditionally drawn by hand. Doesn't matter if they're sitting at a desk with a paper and pencil, or if they're drawing on their computer screen using a tablet and stylus (both of which were techniques used on The Princess and the Frog), it's still the hand-drawn work of highly skilled traditional artists, as opposed to the entirely different skill set of building and animating the characters with polygons as we see in CG.

[gusw666]

Tangled

[labrat1881]

Its gotta be Sleeping beauty

[Chordata]

Tangled