Minion_Soldier

Minion_Soldier t1_jebn672 wrote

Reply to comment by DavoTB in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01

If we can't build things anywhere in Virginia that could be considered a "historic site", then basically the entire state should be off limits for new construction. And considering the planned Disney site is now subdivisions and data centers, I have doubts the site really had much historic value.

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Minion_Soldier t1_j92f95a wrote

Reply to comment by pfranz in TIL that "Lilo & Stitch" (2002) used exclusively watercolor backgrounds, since Disney, after some failures, was investing in other projects. This was later called a "hand drawn miracle". by starring2

Home on the Range was the last hand-drawn film Disney released before the switch to CG, but Brother Bear (produced at the Florida studio) was finished later. (Disney flipped the release dates on those two for various reasons.) So technically, the Florida studio was still doing hand-drawn animation after the California studio had moved on. It's a silly distinction really, but a lot of the coverage of the Florida studio closing down focused on how they were the last holdout for 2D feature animation in America.

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Minion_Soldier t1_j91ql0q wrote

Reply to comment by dilldoeorg in TIL that "Lilo & Stitch" (2002) used exclusively watercolor backgrounds, since Disney, after some failures, was investing in other projects. This was later called a "hand drawn miracle". by starring2

OK, let's get all this sorted out:

  1. The Florida studio was (at the time) the last Disney studio to make hand-drawn theatrical films.

  2. But they aren't now. Disney revived the traditional animation department in California for Princess and the Frog (and Pooh 2011).

  3. And of course Disney owns several animation studios outside the feature animation division; those studios didn't switch to CG at that time. Remember all those mediocre direct-to-video sequels with hand-drawn animation in the 00's? And then there's the television animation division, which still does some hand-drawn shows today.

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