As a Disney fanatic, I found the spoilers for upcoming movie releases posted here to be very exciting.
Regarding the upcoming movie "Bolt":
It’s 3-D animated, but they’re doing something really interesting with it. They’ve worked on technology (patents pending, apparently) that allows them to bring the classic Disney painterly backgrounds into a CG animated movie. They showed a few scenes to demonstrate, including one of an old train pulling away from a country station that looked fantastic. It was sunset, heavy orange and yellows. I haven’t had a chance to catch MEET THE ROBINSONS yet so I won’t speak to that film, but CHICKEN LITTLE lacked that Disney identity in story, character and tone. Just having that hand-painted background gave the few finished scenes from BOLT that Disney identity. John Lasseter said that this new technology is so sharp that if you take some still frames and look closely at the backgrounds you can even see brushstrokes.
Good stories, new technology - yet a return to the "old-time" feel of Disney animation - all sound very promising to me. I did see "Meet the Robinsons" and was very impressed by the animation and the 3-D technology.
Between the upcoming movies and the new attraction, Toy Story Mania, opening in late-May at Walt Disney World, it's looking like a good year for us Disney fans.
