{"id":94,"date":"2010-02-21T19:33:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2010-08-01T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T15:15:56","slug":"learning-from-disneys-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/blog\/learning-from-disneys-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from Disney&#8217;s mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up until <em>Home on the Range<\/em> in 2004, Disney was releasing a hand-drawn animated feature <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Disney_Films\" target=\"_blank\">pretty much every year<\/a>. <em>The Princess and the Frog<\/em> marks their return to the form after a gap of five years. I read the story behind this output interruption in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/films\/features\/leap-of-faith-the-princess-and-the-frog-1870801.html\" target=\"_blank\">few<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/toonzone.net\/blog\/blogs\/112\/toons-of-the-2000s-the-fall-and-rise--of-2d-animation---part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">places<\/a>, but it became clear that nobody was bringing the data behind it together in a clear way, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve tried to do here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The turning point is 2004, and the question is this:<\/strong> <strong>What will become of animated movies in general, and Disney animation in particular?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toweroftheoctopus.com\/2010\/02\/learning-from-disneys-mistakes\/\" target=\"_self\">[Read the full analysis of this question at this post&#8217;s new location, Tower of the Octopus]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-metatim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until Home on the Range in 2004, Disney was releasing a hand-drawn animated feature pretty much every year. The Princess and the Frog marks their return to the form after a gap of five years. I read the story behind this output interruption in a few places, but it became clear that nobody was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/blog\/learning-from-disneys-mistakes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learning from Disney&#8217;s mistakes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[72,47,46],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ie0C-1w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mannveille.com\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}