What Is The Best Looking Disney Blu-ray ?

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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.