[OC] John Lasseter Apology Form
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What the fuck is The Brave Little Toaster?
Not CGI, but you gotta admit, he became far more known as a pioneer in early 3D animation. Everyone who is doing it today owe their careers to him, Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith.
A toaster who is brave and loyal.
To be fair, wanting to do the brave little toaster with cgi is what got him fired from disney in the first place.
It is? Man, of all things to side with Disney on.
The Brave Little Toaster still looks great today BECAUSE it's all hand-drawn.
CGI is artless.
If simpsons and family guy and etc wasnt lame as hell these days, i still wouldve rejected them when they started doing 3d. Its too clean. I dont like it.
I did some research because that comment didn't make sense to me at first. Don't be too quick in siding with the mouse.
Disney bought the rights to a novella in 1982. Lasseter wanted to make a CGI version, but Disney said no because CGI wasn't faster or cheaper and fired him. Disney was going to make it for $18m and then decided to finance an independent production and gave Hyperion $5.94m to make it.
Seems Disney's contribution was saying, "why do something new unless it's more profitable," slashing 2/3 the budget, and punting it to a fledgling studio. The did keep it from being CGI though.
And it's aged better than any CGI movie.
Progress ages poorly. Tradition becomes vintage.
lol I bet this guy likes wind waker