Journal Entry – Week 12

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Journal Entry – Week 12

Journal Entry - Week 12

Respond to at least 1 prompt on this page (you are welcome to respond to more). For instructions on how to submit a journal entry, please follow these instructions. FORMATTING FOR THIS WEEK: Use the title format “[FirstName] [LastName] W12” and select the Category “Journal Entry – Week 12”)

Prompt 1

Disney and other big studios closed their 2D animation divisions by the late 1990s/early 2000s. Why did they make this decision? Do you believe it was a good one? Can you find/describe examples of 2D animation thriving today?

Prompt 2

Describe a film that exemplifies the blurred line between animation and live-action. What category do you think it belongs in and why?

Animation vs. Live action

Journal Entry - Week 12 Uncategorized

Theodora Zarbis

 

Week 12 prompt 2

One movie that I think has a blurred line between animation and live action is Space Jam from 1996. The movie stars a live action Michael Jordon, who is acting among the animated cast of the Looney Tunes characters. This movie was a commercial success and is still relevant and talked about today. I think that it’s very difficult to say which category this movie belongs in, because it fully contains elements of both. I think it should just be considered a hybrid film, to call it one or the other is just ingenuous and is ignoring the entire creative premise of the film.

WK12

Journal Entry - Week 12

Disney and other big studios stopped making 2D animated movies in the late 1990s and early 2000s because 3D animation, like in Toy Story and Shrek, was becoming more popular and successful. Some 2D movies didn’t make enough money, and studios thought audiences liked 3D better. They also saw 3D as faster and cheaper to make. While 3D animation brought amazing new movies, 2D’s unique style and charm were unfairly pushed aside. Today, 2D animation is still alive in some TV shows. Movies like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse even mix 2D and 3D, proving it still has a place in modern animation.