Disney, the animation studio that created iconic hand-drawn animated films such as ‘Bambi’, ‘Snow White’ and ‘The Lion King’ has admitted that it has no current plans to make hand-drawn animated films anytime soon.
Speaking from an annual shareholder’s meeting, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed that “none of the studio’s animation companies was working on 2D, hand-drawn material for the big screen,” reported The Guardian.
“To my knowledge we’re not developing a 2D or hand-drawn feature animated film right now,” said Iger. “There is a fair amount of activity going on in hand-drawn animation but it’s largely for television at this point.”
“We’re not necessarily ruling out the possibility [of] a feature but there isn’t any in development at the company at the moment.”
The last two hand-drawn animated films by Disney were ‘The Princess and the Frog’ and the 2011’s ‘Winnie the Pooh’, which did poorly in box offices as compared to Disney’s other CGI films—‘Bolt’ and ‘Tangled’.
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[via The Guardian, image via Ki Creative Studio]