tribute to the beauty of western animation video this was inspired by: • Little Dark Age - Anim... FULL CREDIT TO MGMT FOR THE MUSIC www.youtube.com/watch?v=
The song is slowed down to avoid copyright . Here is a list of all the clips shown for those who are wondering - Firebird from Fantasia 2000 - Anastasia - Mulan - Hercules - Iron Giant - Sleeping Beauty - Treasure Planet - The Iron Gaint - Atlantis: The Lost Empire - Pocahontas - The Little Mermaid - Tarzan - Pocahontas - Hercules - Aladin - Hercules - Hercules (again) - Sleeping Beauty - Noah's Arc from Fantasia 2000 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame - The Lion King - The Secret of NIMH - The Prince of Egypt - FIrebird - Night on Bald Mountain - Firebird - Dinosaur - Hercules - Pocahontas - The Lion King - The Iron Giant - The Rescuers Down Under (I think) - Hercules - Atlantis - Anastasia - The Prince of Egypt - The Hunchback of Norte Dame - The Lion King - The Price of Egypt - Night on Bald Mountain - Firebird - Night on Bald Mountain - Firebird - Night on Bald Mountain - The Hunchback of Norte Dame - Aladin - Firebird - Both from The Prince of Egypt - End is from Atlantis
The crazy thing is that in some of these movies they didn’t completely eliminate CGI-they used it to enhance “traditional” animation. The Prince of Egypt is a great example. They blended 2D animation and CGI beautifully in that movie.
I've always loved the prospects of mixed methods for traditional and CGI. Hell, even a lot of the traditional methods in the video are actually mixed methods. CGI generated scaling and camera movement used to streamline the process and have frame by frame consistency much more accessible to other artists. Or when CGI is used for painted backgrounds. I do miss the look of traditional media. Maybe that's the nostalgia in me, but there was something so bright, sincere, and emotional about a drawn face rather than a generated one. While strictly CGI characters can capture this kind of sincerity (many older Pixar movies, how to train your dragon, Luca are some exceptional examples) I think this sincerity is slowly being lost to safer, more marketable, and formulaic scripts. I might be biased, but movies don't have the magic and risk they used to. At least, not large production/large scale movies.
Like people have said, 3D animation totally has the capability of being beautiful and creative, like Spiderverse or Wall-E, which were the first that came to my mind, its just that studios aren't trying much anymore
It’s not that cgi is bad, but it’s the ONLY thing. I miss stuff like fantasia and akira and secret of nimh. I think Disney would be surprised at how well a traditionally hand drawn animated movie would be received if you released it now. Especially if it was a large scale epic. I think people would love that kind of thing because it’s so rare. I
Random Fact: That part alone actually took 2 years to finished by 10 animators. no wonder it turned out so great especially this part that look like a painting 1:14.
Klaus is actually 3D cgi animation, done in the 2D classical style. Just goes to show that cgi can be amazing when implemented well, it’s just a lotta movies aren’t made with artistic freedom at the forefront but a lot are pushed out to try and make a profit
The final shot being Atlantis becoming swallowed by the depths of the sea is perfect, it's just like how Western/2D animation has been lost and seemingly forgotten.
Ever since the Renaissance of animation was over, it became so degenerated and ugly looking while written and animated by lousy infantile inexperienced writers/animators. "Calarts" and "the writing" makes my brain melt like gooey, just like there attendant audience🤪.
The camel is all alone The Firebird opened it’s eyes God’s cylinder of fire burned the page (and the ground and maybe a few soldiers lol) The scene with the waves was dark
What’s crazy is that movies like Into the Spiderverse prove that even if cgi is unavoidably the new paradigm of western animation, there’s still so much room for creativity and style that studios aren’t even attempting, in favor of the generic plastic look that Disney, Dreamworks, and even to an increasing extent Pixar have exclusively cultivated.
Modern studios misunderstood everything. The thing about animation was not making it look "more realistic", because *animation can convey things that real life will never be capable of.*
It's not really about 2D vs 3D. It's about artistry. But studios these days aren't willing to give their animators then time and money then need to make high quality stuff.
@@DingDingTheRUclipsBuddy I agree on that one, well worked openly adult animation, unless its in the family guy tier of writting, doesnt tend to fare well at the box office. They have to hide it under the facade of "Wacky movie for kids" like Encanto or Spiderverse which have beautiful animation and deal with very adult issues.
imo, 2d animation was beautiful because it manages to convey so much emotion and symbolism even without that much expression even if it was in an animation style that looks simple and flat, apposed to 3d animation where you can understand what the characters and plot are implying.
To me it always felt like peering into a different dimension where the reality is this animated universe, so good was the animation of the 90s/80s in western and especially eastern with anime back then. It's why that era is known as the golden age of animation. Today CG unfortunately feels extremely factory produced. It doesn't feel like im peering into a different dimension. It just looks like I'm watching a standard 3D rendering, which it is.
I love 2D animation more than 3D, but i strongly and respectfully disagree about your statement. There are some really good 3D stuff that captured same feeling as 2D like Spider-Verse, The Mitchells, Arcane, Soul and Encanto.
Old amation was so well made, so cool, Everything looks so great, many details, and ALL IS HAND DRAW! The olds have soul, express feelings.. now look at those new 2d & 3d cartoons. None of them have effort put into. They are souless and maked with people that only wants Suck money of the kids
@@pyroteknikk3127puss in booth and the spiderverse still give hope in the potential of the modern western animation, but I think they are more some lucky exception than something else.
Disney is such a double edged sword of a company. When they allow their creative teams to be creative, the consumate of their creations speaks for itself. Sadly, the creative teams are often overlooked for the legal teams, and corperate teams. And as of recently, the political agenda of whatever appears "hip" or makes China happy.
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 they've proven time and again that despite the image they like to project of being the "happiest place on earth", their completely devoid of ethics. My favorite recent example is them thanking the CCP for letting them film Mulan in Xinjiang (some claim that the site was just a couple miles away from a Uyger concentration camp), but other notable examples are allowing puppies to be mutilated by frostbite so they could film Snow Buddies, and of course lobbying congress to screw over American copyright laws so that Mikey Mouse (and, by extension, pretty much every IP created after the 1930's) would never enter the public domain, even though Disney made it's name on public domain stories like Snow White and Peter Pan.
When i watched new cartoon with my mom, she complained about the animation not as good as before then i explained to her "That it is up to the artist who made it, if they decided to make it that way then it is" but after i watched this i understand what she said.
@@SteveAdmin Well, when i was a child, she took me to movie when the Reneisance Disney movies style were showing and she always bought some old and reneisance Disney (and something similiar to their art style like prince of egypt and spirit) film back then, so yeah she has a good taste.
I get the point too but I still think "little you" was right, if it really is what the artist wants (and not just monetary demand) then it should be that way
I’m 19 and my brother is 6, and it really blows my mind how different children’s animation is now versus when I was his age. It’s simple and there are only a few unique styles, the stories are boring, censored, and anti-climactic. There’s no diversity in the characters. No conflict, nothing that actually reflects reality. I’ve tried showing him movies that I liked at his age, and he says they’re all “too boring” or “too scary”. I think children’s media has lost a lot more than just it’s beauty
As a 20 year old,I can say that in the early 2010s I didnt watch anything besides cartoon shows and animated films,after I grew into middle highschool I thought I would start watching normal shows but I ended up following wwe and not watching anything except for a few cartoon movies on the occasion lol. It seems that without the beauty and artistic feeling to the animation I didnt care about watching shows after I grew out of my childhood programs. It's a sad thing now how hard it is to spot a cartoon movie or even show to watch and enjoy as an adult.
but there's definitely been quite a few exceptions to that. luckily not all animation companies are following in pursuit of what illumination has done to the industry.
Maybe your brother already contaminated by the new animated? Show him the easy to understand like from the golden era of Disney until his ready to watch the reneisance era.
This is a very profound and enlightening comment. Thanks for sharing this insight and story. 😃 I also loved these films as a kid. I rewatched Jungle Book every day as a kid.
The fact of all those movies are drawigns that were made with pencil and an incredible use of color will always feel respect for the animators to make those incredible moments
I'm an atheist but Prince of Egypt is just amazing. The beautiful use of hand drawn animation combined with the incredible musical score has created a masterpiece.
@@thegovtdoesntcareaboutyou prince of Egypt is a religious movie with religious purposes and he’s letting us know he doesn’t like the move for being religious but having a great version of the exodus and animation
That shot of Chernabog at 1:05 and 1:07 looks straight out of a horror movie. It’s crazy to think Disney was pumping stuff like that out back in the day. Also really glad Prince of Egypt is here. One of the most beautiful movies of all time.
Well seeing as Fantasia is literal satanic Project Monarch brainwashing its not that surprising. Aleister Crowley described Walt Disney as a master of occult propaganda.
I wish animators would realize that we don't care if the movie comes out quickly one after the other. We just want quality animation with time, effort, and love put into them
Nothing will ever be the same again. It will only get worse. Our children will have nothing meaningful or of substance to observe in media. I cannot and will not move on, I refuse.
1:18 the animators of this scene even bothered to animate the shockwave of the blast pushing the clouds and it’s even in a spherical shape. That’s some attention to detail that you rarely get with modern movies. I’m really glad that I watched these movies as a kid instead of the ones today
is a tactic used very often by studio ghibli, to always have something moving on the screen even if the scene is static, obviously I'm talking about takahata and myazaki, not the son Gorō
This is plainly not true. Plenty of 'modern' animation contains plenty of detail. Enter the Spiderverse is a good example, and not even the best modern one. Plenty of studios are doing things with grit and attention to detail. Stop letting memes dictate how you view the world.
I would kill to get another Fantasia movie. The way the animators brought classical pieces to life with their visual interpretations was nothing short of genius.
If they make too many then the existing ones will be cheapened. Still we might get a new Fantasia during an anniversary. 2023 marks the 100 year anniversary of the Disney company, so that's a possibility.
I’m happy that movies like Klaus are carrying the torch for now. A truly seamless blend of 2d animation and 3d assets. You know it’s good when you can’t tell the difference
@@HellishSpoon Some elements like the carriage were 3D assets but the fact that I needed to watch a VFX breakdown to even notice that is a testament to the quality of the movie.
The same thing happened or indian animation There were artists creating passion projects and they experimented a lot (theya were not always a feature length movie, but they did make quality stuff)
You should give the anime movies from that time back then a chance as well. Even today the animation from that time is just mind blowing. Western went CG and Anime unfortunately suffered over the years with the new rule of quantity over quality. So both east and west degraded in animation quality :(
the scene in atlantis where kida is rising into the floating pillars remains my fav piece of animation work ever-it always takes my breath away. old animation was gorgeous.
Я благодарна художникам прошлых десятилетий,что они рисовали такие шикарные мультики,не спали ночами,они подарили мне шикарное детство. Сейчас большинство студий не пытаются даже приблизиться к рисовке прошлого, просто один и тот же конвейер. Нет изюминки.
I love how much Hercules is on here. Love it for both art style and sentimental reasons as my aunt worked as one of the head concept artists. That movie was probably my favorite movie she worked on out of the bunch she did. She passed unfortunately a few years ago, but this movie always brings a smile to my face remembering the time we shared.
Never got the chance to see that film, my only exposure to Herc has been through the Kingdom Hearts games. Really cool that your aunt's work has had such an impact that it can still be felt all these years later.
*"MAKE WESTERN ANIMATION GREAT AGAIN!"* (As an Animator this video brings happiness and grief to my heart, have started in my career with paper and pencil and still doing it today here in America, and seeing this gives me Inspiration to keep going, thank you for this edit)
There are some criminally underrated movies from this era of western animation, movies like Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure planet, Pocahontas. The mixture of 2D and CGI worked really well with these movies.
It is a shame that even with the advancements of technology furthering the boundaries of what artists can do, the best animations are from the 90s and early 2000s only being surpassed in resolution.
We are in a situation where technology has progressed so far that it has become acceptable for million-dollar-an-episode TV shows to have lower visual fidelity of 70's made-for-TV stop motion. Flash itself is not a blight, but it has inspired the laziest generation in professional animation.
@@jakemalloy4947 i will take arcane over your toady Court of Versailles "new hotness" any day. Lol. It's not 'arcane" it's 'based'. Something you New Pepsi kids nevar are.
A big part of this issue comes from the demand of corporations. I mean Disney didn't didn't want to make Treasure Planet because the technology required to make it was slowly going out of style. The only reason it was made was because it was a passion project of two renowned animators. Even modern cartoons that try to do interesting things story and visual wise end up getting canceled because they "don't fit the brand"
That's why independent filmmaking needs to be the new norm. Today is easier than ever. You no longer need expensive ass camera rigs, rows of artist applying color, massive studios, selling your talent to the rat, etc. A bunch of people with computers have done incredible stuff.
@@DonVigaDeFierro except this is gonna end because most of cinematography is going straight to online services, so everything will be netflix / Disney recycled bs
I love the added touch of "image of the dead" coupled with pictures of 2D animators at 0:13. Like remembering your friends as you watch the world cave in
Do you guys remember how these older animation movies ignited our imaginations? They were captivating and magical. They were so much better than the newer movies.
Older animated movies, at least in my opinion, heavily committed to being symbolic and with that, those older movies were true pieces of art that held meaning through their symbolic and beautiful animation.
To be fair, we now have a new generation of young independent artists that would love to stray away from industry norms and keep 2D animation alive. But sad to see such beautiful knowledge just go to waste.
@ligia the Wolf Haven't watched it, but Saberspark did a video about one animation called "Brand New Animal". It's an anime but with animals. Or you can watch Beastars, which is pretty much Zootopia but rated M.
I really hope that as the ability to animate becomes more and more accessible, independent artists can definitively prove that it's okay to break away from the "safe" model that the big studios have been clinging onto for so long. "Mainstream" animation has mostly been basically the same style for years with the only difference being how shiny the lighting effects are as time goes on. Totally superficial "innovations".
@ligia the Wolf You should watch Cartoon Saloon's movies Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells and Wolfwalkers. They're all beautiful 2D/Hand-drawn animated movies centred around irish folklore.
I wish DreamWorks made more 2D movies before they shifted completely to 3D. The Prince of Egypt gives me chills every time and Spirit is my favorite animated movie.
It's probably due to nostalgia, bias or some crap, but am I only the one here who thinks animated movies in the 90s and 2000s (both 2D and 3D) are incredibly beautiful and magnificent? Like, they did not only leave a significant impact in my childhood, but also subtly finessed and shaped my thoughts in thinking what a good animation is like.
This is definitely the right place to ask this question, in the comment section of a video praising old animated movies. theres no way you could be the only one HERE. Maybe its just the way you worded it, but it sounds just like "im 11 and this is deep" or "i was born in the wrong generation" type thing. sorry for the negativity.
It's not necessarily Bias to say some stuff is more beautiful than others, and in this particular case, western animations WERE a lot better before, nowadays we still have some good looking 3d movies sure, but we never saw the same quality we had during the golden age of the 90s to 2000s.
The chief of animation in the college i go to worked in disney and is responsible for the way rapunzel’s hair is animated, which had never been done before…and one time at a town hall he was speaking at he talked about how much he misses 2D animation, and that felt just so significant coming from a cgi pioneer
Recent update: a former Disney employee has come out to say that they have no way to go back to 2D animation. Both the equipment and techniques used have been lost, forgotten, and thrown out. So if 2D comes back, it won’t be through Disney. 😔
Encanto it’s probably one of the best movies to come out in this few years Not every movie needs to have some big terrible antagonist. Sometimes stories don’t need a Satan like being to drive their characters. Encanto it’s about generational trauma so why does the villain need to be Satan?
In some studios, stylised animation is making a comeback. Wolf Walkers by Cartoon Saloon for example was absolutely gorgeous! I hope such skilled art becomes more popular in the future
that movie, that movie shaped my childhood, the mixture between ancient fantasy-like technology and modern steampunk, it sang entire symphonies to me as a kid
I got the Disney Kida doll that got released last month for the movie's 20th year celebration and it's beautiful! The movie is an amazing mark of animation history!
The fact is that Atlantis has some of the best animated sequences there has ever been on big screen. Even the characters were all very likable. Though its last 3rd is pretty meh storywise, its still clearly one of the more underrated Disney films there is. It deserved alot more.
2D animation is legendary, both Western and others, and as a Russian I like the fact that people from the West began to perceive our animation during the Soviet Union, for example, the recent popularity of Treasure Island.
Omg how could you make such a powerful edit... Every single hair on my body just rose straight up 😢 so many fantastic memories. I watched Atlantis like fifty times when I was a kid I knew this movie by heart!
anime still put out an astronomical amount of amazing shows in the 2010's that looked gorgeous, but I definitely agree that they've only barely scratched the peak of what they had in the 90's
Modern artists have the capacity to make good art like they have in the past. Its just that the people that fund them, corporations, want them to make profitable products over artistic ones, ignroing the fact that these two things are not mutually exclusive. Its a travesty.
Everyone's talking about the message but I need to give praise to the damn well made edit, it just captures what made western animation so captivating in the first place
The moment animated movies transformed from "family movies" to "childens media" everything went down the drain. Parent dont take their kids to the movies so that they all can enjoy something, but just to please the kid by showing them the thing they were fed through phone ads
A fragment of this incredible animation like this still exists within Indie animators, those who recognize the greedy corporate direction animation has taken in the 2010s. We can still save it, don’t ever lose hope.
3D animation is absolutely beautiful too if done right. My favorite 3D animated movie is definitely The Adventures of Tintin. The stylized motion capture, character designs which are faithful to source material, visual effects, action sequences, cast performances and of course the musical score are all top notch and perfectly blended together to create such a beautiful blockbuster of a film.
@@danieldietz8292 adult animation and children's animation are really garbage now. Even Hollywood entertainment is straight pile of shit. The latest thats come out was the same cluche stupid horror Scream, now we have Jackass forever which just a bunch of guys doing the most disgusting and stupid idiotic things ever. Western culture in general has devolved to hustling money in a endless cage fight for scraps so you can buy material garbage that doesn't make you happy
In my opinion, since most of the older western animated movies were based of historicaly important legends and books, the creators actually respected what they were creating was based of, when you look at the shots you got for this video everything seems to have a biblical sense to it or seems like it's a piece of art that is moving, and these shots kind of act the way books and arts work, they are meant to have a deeper meaning and for us to look at it and stimulate our imagination, I'm not much into reading or art because I kind of find it boring but I understand what they mean and how important they are, it's just a shame that most of the modern animators doesn't seem to get that, they just seem like they want to make a movie with silly jokes for kids and make a profit out of it, because what I think that happened through out the years is that animators started to think: "Oh these animations are to complex, the kids won't understand what's going on" wich is wrong because these movies aren't meant "just for kids" they are meant for everyone, kids will look at these movies and even though they might not understand everything that is going on with the story, they still be stunned by the beautifull imagery, colors and artistical moments and it will stimulate their imagination, while the more grown up people will watch it and understand the meaning of what's going on and be in for a 1/2 hour incredible fun and well crafted ride, I think that what most modern animators are missing.
Alladin was not respectful to it's "origins" at all. I'd say nowadays movies are more accurate because more information about stuff like different cultures are aviable, as well as more people of different ethnicities who are a part of said culture are working in industry. The problem is not with stories, it's within the big companies: they don't want to take risks and create something original, they rely on formula and what brings money the most
@@galvanizeddreamer2051 you just crushed people's arguments on why the new star wars movie are good(because they're total CRAP!!!) Just because you like "It", dose Not mean "It" is Good, in short terms.
@@rebelrebel8398 Alladin was a Persian Story Stolen & muddled up by the Islamist. Plus when Jasmine "stole the Apple scene" the cartoon had it right, she would of had her hand cut off for thievery, but the live action was Off & Not Historically Accurate. Not according to Old world Laws & Shariah Law of Saudi Arabia.
Now we only have stuff who are for putting in the brain of children by ""modernism"" . Now I don't have read the bible, but deep down I thinks the time approch I would read it for a particular reason : Nostalgie, because I will see everything that is inspired by it and remember them, I will still be hable to learn stuff in the book too. Now wonder for the two other, sad that we don't have more clearn remaining of previous story but they where less good writter so sadly that happen.
My passion is 2D animation and seeing this video got my surprisingly teary eyed because it was a reminder of how incredibly passionate and full of soul animations of the pre-digital age were. Everything was pain stakenly made on hand painted cels, risk taking was encouraged, original ideas were encouraged, meaningful storytelling through imagery were carefully thought out, and thee people who worked on these older animations were legends. Nowadays everything is uninspired forgettable 3D animation made not for the purpose of telling a compelling or meaningful story with a good message, but instead for how much it can create revenue and sell merchandise for the company. I’m not saying all modern animation is bad but the majority are and it sounds very cynical of me to say but it’s just true and obvious when you compare the animations before 2001 (whenever cel animation became completely obsolete) with the animations of the last decade.
Oh i completely agree with you, if i ever get a child, i will show them only these cool movies, original, risk taking, but of course, some of the modern animations as well.
Here is the list of all the films featured in this video because I noticed a lot of people here want to watch them all! Fantasia/2000 (Disney-1999) Anastasia (Don Bluth/Fox-1997) Mulan (Disney-1998) Hercules (Disney-1997) The Iron Giant (WB-1999) Sleeping Beauty (Disney-1959) Treasure Planet (Disney-2002) Atlantis (Disney-2001) Pocahontas (Disney-1995) The Little Mermaid (Disney-1989) Tarzan (Disney-1999) Aladdin (Disney-1992) Beauty And The Beast (Disney-1991) The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Disney-1996) The Lion King (Disney-1994) The Secret Of NIMH (Don Bluth/MGM-1982) The Prince Of Egypt (Dreamworks- 1998) Fantasia (Disney-1940) Dinosaurs (Disney-2000)
3d isn't bad it just kills the mystic feeling of the animation. recently i watched dragon ball super super hero and i really liked the way the mixed 3d with 2d and polished it
As somone who animated professionally I gotta say whats really going on is if you notice all those 2D shots at the later half of the video could easily be just as stunning in 3D because of the overall shot composition and direction. Its an artistic problem. People are getting hired onto these 3D films for technical knowledge. It takes so much time and energy to get good at anything in 3D so people specialize (rigging, modeling, UVing, texturing, lighting, hair, cloth, particles etc). Writing, acting, story telling, cinematography and a general understanding of the traditional art is neglected.
And we can see proper 3d animation shine sometimes in movies that embrace stylistic choices rather than going for realism. It can be beautiful, it's not the medium that's gone wrong here
So this is why every modern animated blockbuster from Disney, Dreamworks, that shitty Minions studio, etc look and feel the same. It all looks sterile, which is what the big wigs of Hollywood care. As long as it makes their kids happy with all the commercialized familiarity in the industry... they don't want to put any money into doing something artistically different.
And not to forget the powerful soundtracks following these epic movies. The soundtrack of The Prince of Egypt is still in my opinion one of the bestsoundtracks ever made
It's not even the so-called 'death' of hand-drawn animation that gets me. It's that it had to dissolve into something so forgettable in "Brother Bear" that does get me.
Animation has always had its ups and downs. Don't tell me you don't remember the weird straight-to-video sequels of the Disney animated movies (Tarzan 2, Mulan 2, Fox and the hound 2...) But nowadays, it's mostly downs, while ups are becoming more and more rare.
@@DonVigaDeFierro I’d recommend Hilda for a very nice integration of a crayon comic style into an animated format, plus it’s a show that has so much love put into it that it never fails to restore my faith in the future of animation.
As much as Anime currently dominates the animation scene nowadays we forget, 20th century western animation, particularly early Disney is what inspired a lot of the great Japanese animators too. This downfall of creativity could also be a sign of our own cultures decline. Sad really
Tbh Animes arent what they used to be either. Rewatching monster and its detailed art made me realize how poor todays quality is. I was amazed how Newsletters actually Had entire articles instead of lines that represent text AS a small example
@@dullinator1059 Ikr I have to agree with you. T me both anime and western have had a decline in quality and storytelling ever since this generation has started probably do to the fact that things have become way less harder now and people lack work ethic nowadays since they really don’t really have to do as much as they did back then and it is also considered in today’s world outdated. To me the prime of animation was in the 1970-2000 than the fall became around 2012 imo.
Anime aren't any better though lol, people be acting as if every anime were masterpiece but around 95% of them are isekai trash, harem bullshit, stupid shonen,... The west have way less production but a lot of amazing ones too. For instance, people always talk about Avatar, Invincible or Arcane but nobody speak about Dofus: Julith or the lastest seasons of Clone Wars.
Apart from the animation style itself, I just don't know if they do shots like these anymore. 0:32 to 0:40 for example (and others in this video), are so beautifully framed and dynamic. Even small shots feel big (like the pocahontas shot) and big scenes feel huge. Also, Arcane is a great example of beautiful modern animation. I don't know the exact details, but I think it's a mix of 2d and 3d.
the thing is we can still do this. Hell, we can create these amazing images even easier now but for some reason we just... don't??? I mean Pixar is really the only studio that still does amazing graphics like this but even they don't go all out
As a visual artist myself, it hits me hard seeing such hard work and excellence. They knew how to kill animation back then, esp in the 90s. Jeez, where did the talent go?
The talent is still very much there just look at animation schools RUclips accounts. Those students however get employed by companies that don’t want to pay them properly and who want to go with cheaper age options.It’s not a lack of talent but a lack of investment in the final product
@@di7209 I suppose I mean the talent in the movies themselves. It's not just movies. The music industry is also producing music of far less quality than a couple of decades. Entertainment as a whole has become a factory to churn out product as cheaply as possible. There are without a doubt highly talented individuals out there, but the corporations are more interested in putting out second rate empty nothingness.
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Here is a list of all the clips shown for those who are wondering
- Firebird from Fantasia 2000
- Anastasia
- Mulan
- Hercules
- Iron Giant
- Sleeping Beauty
- Treasure Planet
- The Iron Gaint
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Pocahontas
- The Little Mermaid
- Tarzan
- Pocahontas
- Hercules
- Aladin
- Hercules
- Hercules (again)
- Sleeping Beauty
- Noah's Arc from Fantasia 2000
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The Lion King
- The Secret of NIMH
- The Prince of Egypt
- FIrebird
- Night on Bald Mountain
- Firebird
- Dinosaur
- Hercules
- Pocahontas
- The Lion King
- The Iron Giant
- The Rescuers Down Under (I think)
- Hercules
- Atlantis
- Anastasia
- The Prince of Egypt
- The Hunchback of Norte Dame
- The Lion King
- The Price of Egypt
- Night on Bald Mountain
- Firebird
- Night on Bald Mountain
- Firebird
- Night on Bald Mountain
- The Hunchback of Norte Dame
- Aladin
- Firebird
- Both from The Prince of Egypt
- End is from Atlantis
Beautiful films!! So much nostalgia
Gracias
Thank you. I have only watched few of them 👍🏻👍🏻💪💪
Personally I think he should have added Titan EA
I believe the one with the bird that you didn't have saved is the opening sequence to Prince Of Egypt, but I might be entirely incorrect
The crazy thing is that in some of these movies they didn’t completely eliminate CGI-they used it to enhance “traditional” animation. The Prince of Egypt is a great example. They blended 2D animation and CGI beautifully in that movie.
CGI enhanced 2D animation is the best.
Treasure Planet. Futurama, and Invader Zim are other great examples of this.
@@honeycomblord9384 and Tarzan. Though the technique was much better used in Treasure Planet, the CGI backgrounds were first used in Tarzan.
@@honeycomblord9384 I'm still salty that Treasure Planet bombed and we never got to see the sequel to it.
I've always loved the prospects of mixed methods for traditional and CGI.
Hell, even a lot of the traditional methods in the video are actually mixed methods. CGI generated scaling and camera movement used to streamline the process and have frame by frame consistency much more accessible to other artists. Or when CGI is used for painted backgrounds.
I do miss the look of traditional media. Maybe that's the nostalgia in me, but there was something so bright, sincere, and emotional about a drawn face rather than a generated one. While strictly CGI characters can capture this kind of sincerity (many older Pixar movies, how to train your dragon, Luca are some exceptional examples) I think this sincerity is slowly being lost to safer, more marketable, and formulaic scripts. I might be biased, but movies don't have the magic and risk they used to. At least, not large production/large scale movies.
I forgot how beautiful western animation was, such a nice blend of colors
Yeah anime overtook it in both quality and creativity.
@@ogchirag sure,1 word “Arcane”
@@ogchirag It declined from what it was.
@@ilnumero1234 Fucking lmao.
@@ilnumero1234 Actually there's two, Into the SpiderVerse
Disney ditching 2D animations was an unforgettable sin.
And trying to modernize their classics with Life Action remakes is just a slap into face.
What are you doing here green sweater man?
Couldn't have said it better.
@@joeyk107 What does that have to do with this?
@@rabbidcrazy787 the guy who made the comment makes lego animations and the main character a lot of the time is a guy with a green sweater
@@joeyk107 Okay but how was saying that necessary?
Like people have said, 3D animation totally has the capability of being beautiful and creative, like Spiderverse or Wall-E, which were the first that came to my mind, its just that studios aren't trying much anymore
It’s not that cgi is bad, but it’s the ONLY thing. I miss stuff like fantasia and akira and secret of nimh. I think Disney would be surprised at how well a traditionally hand drawn animated movie would be received if you released it now. Especially if it was a large scale epic. I think people would love that kind of thing because it’s so rare. I
Add coco to the list. Got the privilege to see that one in theaters
When it’s done right, 2D animation and 3D animation are equally great in my book. Both can create wonderful things.
LEGO Movie is good too
If blended correctly like arcane 3d and 2d absolutely mix well
man, the 'splitting the ocean' scene in The Prince of Egypt is so gorgeous. an instant Oscar win, imo
Random Fact: That part alone actually took 2 years to finished by 10 animators. no wonder it turned out so great especially this part that look like a painting 1:14.
IKR? I get chills everything I watch that scene.
Prince of Egypt is crazily good.
Oscar win? It would get an instant Cletus win.
@@fantasyalover4782 it was actually used by mixing 3D and 2D techniques, and looks absolutely gorgeous
Klaus was a welcome return to traditional animation in my opinion. Wish we could get more stuff like that.
Absolutely my dude
look at arcana too i think thats the next step as soon as these last decade of movies are not appealing anymore
Klaus is actually 3D cgi animation, done in the 2D classical style. Just goes to show that cgi can be amazing when implemented well, it’s just a lotta movies aren’t made with artistic freedom at the forefront but a lot are pushed out to try and make a profit
@@skeetskeet7041 no it isnt. Its 2d with computer generated lighting.
Its the opposite actually. For Spiderverse, it's like that
The final shot being Atlantis becoming swallowed by the depths of the sea is perfect, it's just like how Western/2D animation has been lost and seemingly forgotten.
You might be looking in too deep
@@stevensteph3153I mean he’s gotta a point there
Ever since the Renaissance of animation was over, it became so degenerated and ugly looking while written and animated by lousy infantile inexperienced writers/animators. "Calarts" and "the writing" makes my brain melt like gooey, just like there attendant audience🤪.
@@sireggnog890 minimum wage minimum effort (sometimes even less than that)
AMERICAN*
Everything shown then is ONLY relevant to American animation, when European animation is still releasing art after art.
The sync of the scenes with the lyrics after 1:10 is pure gold
0:53 the sync in this one is perfect as well
HOLY SHIT I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE, wetsern animation is juxtaposed as the Lost city of Atlantis at this time stamp.
True!
goat editor
The camel is all alone
The Firebird opened it’s eyes
God’s cylinder of fire burned the page (and the ground and maybe a few soldiers lol)
The scene with the waves was dark
What’s crazy is that movies like Into the Spiderverse prove that even if cgi is unavoidably the new paradigm of western animation, there’s still so much room for creativity and style that studios aren’t even attempting, in favor of the generic plastic look that Disney, Dreamworks, and even to an increasing extent Pixar have exclusively cultivated.
Modern studios misunderstood everything. The thing about animation was not making it look "more realistic", because *animation can convey things that real life will never be capable of.*
It's not really about 2D vs 3D. It's about artistry. But studios these days aren't willing to give their animators then time and money then need to make high quality stuff.
@@DingDingTheRUclipsBuddy I agree on that one, well worked openly adult animation, unless its in the family guy tier of writting, doesnt tend to fare well at the box office. They have to hide it under the facade of "Wacky movie for kids" like Encanto or Spiderverse which have beautiful animation and deal with very adult issues.
Artistry vs Corporatism. Tale as old as time
@@pinkandblack9429 the*
There’s nothing quite like how old 2D animation feels like you’re watching a painting move. It’s a type of art that can’t be captured in a 3D style.
imo, 2d animation was beautiful because it manages to convey so much emotion and symbolism even without that much expression even if it was in an animation style that looks simple and flat, apposed to 3d animation where you can understand what the characters and plot are implying.
As a CG artist i can say yes it can . You dnt need good graphics for a good animation take toy story 1 for example .
To me it always felt like peering into a different dimension where the reality is this animated universe, so good was the animation of the 90s/80s in western and especially eastern with anime back then. It's why that era is known as the golden age of animation. Today CG unfortunately feels extremely factory produced. It doesn't feel like im peering into a different dimension. It just looks like I'm watching a standard 3D rendering, which it is.
Just a classic, perfect style, especially with the quality and messages behind it/the films that used it.
I love 2D animation more than 3D, but i strongly and respectfully disagree about your statement. There are some really good 3D stuff that captured same feeling as 2D like Spider-Verse, The Mitchells, Arcane, Soul and Encanto.
Fans: “Will you ever bring 2D Animated films back?”
Disney: *”No.”* 🙂
Pixar: *"No, but definitely not live remakes. :)"*
It much more expensive than mediocre cgi
Disney: "NooooooOOoooOoOo ☺"
The Owl House and Amphibia : Hold my beer.
@@averelldalton7964 Those are literally just shows on Disney XD I’m talking about actual films
I respect old animation to an infinite degree.
Old amation was so well made, so cool, Everything looks so great, many details, and ALL IS HAND DRAW! The olds have soul, express feelings..
now look at those new 2d & 3d cartoons. None of them have effort put into. They are souless and maked with people that only wants Suck money of the kids
Same
@@Zextormnone? As in all of them suck now? Not one good one? Do you really think that?
@@pyroteknikk3127more people everyday.
wolfwalker was good though.
@@pyroteknikk3127puss in booth and the spiderverse still give hope in the potential of the modern western animation, but I think they are more some lucky exception than something else.
Don't aim for realism, aim for consistency. I feel kinda sad my hatred for Disney has made me forget the movies I grew up with were actually good.
why do u hate disney
@@papasscooperiaworker3649
They mix their works with political agendas that's why
Disney is such a double edged sword of a company. When they allow their creative teams to be creative, the consumate of their creations speaks for itself.
Sadly, the creative teams are often overlooked for the legal teams, and corperate teams. And as of recently, the political agenda of whatever appears "hip" or makes China happy.
@@justanotherexistingperson4377 give an example?
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 they've proven time and again that despite the image they like to project of being the "happiest place on earth", their completely devoid of ethics. My favorite recent example is them thanking the CCP for letting them film Mulan in Xinjiang (some claim that the site was just a couple miles away from a Uyger concentration camp), but other notable examples are allowing puppies to be mutilated by frostbite so they could film Snow Buddies, and of course lobbying congress to screw over American copyright laws so that Mikey Mouse (and, by extension, pretty much every IP created after the 1930's) would never enter the public domain, even though Disney made it's name on public domain stories like Snow White and Peter Pan.
When i watched new cartoon with my mom, she complained about the animation not as good as before then i explained to her "That it is up to the artist who made it, if they decided to make it that way then it is" but after i watched this i understand what she said.
Your mom has good taste.
@@SteveAdmin Well, when i was a child, she took me to movie when the Reneisance Disney movies style were showing and she always bought some old and reneisance Disney (and something similiar to their art style like prince of egypt and spirit) film back then, so yeah she has a good taste.
Apologize to her
@Normisus Cortex Deformicus Well she is very based.
I get the point too but I still think "little you" was right, if it really is what the artist wants (and not just monetary demand) then it should be that way
0:53 that sync was absolutely beautiful
1:00
the shot of Moses parting the Red Sea will always be beautiful
I’m 19 and my brother is 6, and it really blows my mind how different children’s animation is now versus when I was his age. It’s simple and there are only a few unique styles, the stories are boring, censored, and anti-climactic. There’s no diversity in the characters. No conflict, nothing that actually reflects reality. I’ve tried showing him movies that I liked at his age, and he says they’re all “too boring” or “too scary”. I think children’s media has lost a lot more than just it’s beauty
As a 20 year old,I can say that in the early 2010s I didnt watch anything besides cartoon shows and animated films,after I grew into middle highschool I thought I would start watching normal shows but I ended up following wwe and not watching anything except for a few cartoon movies on the occasion lol.
It seems that without the beauty and artistic feeling to the animation I didnt care about watching shows after I grew out of my childhood programs.
It's a sad thing now how hard it is to spot a cartoon movie or even show to watch and enjoy as an adult.
but there's definitely been quite a few exceptions to that. luckily not all animation companies are following in pursuit of what illumination has done to the industry.
Maybe your brother already contaminated by the new animated? Show him the easy to understand like from the golden era of Disney until his ready to watch the reneisance era.
@@Lucy-cl2qk Voltron fell off after season 2 tbh
This is a very profound and enlightening comment. Thanks for sharing this insight and story. 😃 I also loved these films as a kid. I rewatched Jungle Book every day as a kid.
The symbolism of putting Atlantis being a treasure forever lost to mankind as the last scene is insane.
Would you happen to know what movie the giant magma beast is from?
And the one with blue masks?
@@theluluexpress8528 the blue mask one is the second Atlantis movie if I remember correctly, not sure about the magma beast one. Hope that helps!
@@theluluexpress8528 i think it’s fantasia 2000
@@moussasene7840 thank you
The fact of all those movies are drawigns that were made with pencil and an incredible use of color will always feel respect for the animators to make those incredible moments
I'm an atheist but Prince of Egypt is just amazing. The beautiful use of hand drawn animation combined with the incredible musical score has created a masterpiece.
Who cares your an atheist
@fash moog how
bro seriously
wtf thar does have to do with being an atheism
@@thegovtdoesntcareaboutyou prince of Egypt is a religious movie with religious purposes and he’s letting us know he doesn’t like the move for being religious but having a great version of the exodus and animation
That shot of Chernabog at 1:05 and 1:07 looks straight out of a horror movie. It’s crazy to think Disney was pumping stuff like that out back in the day. Also really glad Prince of Egypt is here. One of the most beautiful movies of all time.
What movie is that with Chernabog?
@@heliothrax7716 Fantasia I think
Well seeing as Fantasia is literal satanic Project Monarch brainwashing its not that surprising. Aleister Crowley described Walt Disney as a master of occult propaganda.
@Imminent Ludicrus long story, but to be short, Disney films are full of masonic imagery and mk ultra derived indoctrination techniques.
@Imminent Ludicrus partially, a lot of it has been declassified, but of course the craziest shit is still buried in black ink.
I wish animators would realize that we don't care if the movie comes out quickly one after the other. We just want quality animation with time, effort, and love put into them
Tell that to the investors
*laughs in quick profits*
Unfortunately, this will only stop if the consumer stops paying for mass produced "content."
They due know that. They’re not the ones forcing deadlines and new spin-offs.
Illumination studio laugh at you
Nothing will ever be the same again. It will only get worse. Our children will have nothing meaningful or of substance to observe in media. I cannot and will not move on, I refuse.
Breaking the apple to the crack at 0:53 gave me chills
1:18 the animators of this scene even bothered to animate the shockwave of the blast pushing the clouds and it’s even in a spherical shape. That’s some attention to detail that you rarely get with modern movies. I’m really glad that I watched these movies as a kid instead of the ones today
What movie is it? 🙂
@@signin9551 Atlantis, the lost world
is a tactic used very often by studio ghibli, to always have something moving on the screen even if the scene is static, obviously I'm talking about takahata and myazaki, not the son Gorō
@@sranon5763 didnt watch anything by Gorō Miyazaki yet, is it worthwhile?
This is plainly not true. Plenty of 'modern' animation contains plenty of detail. Enter the Spiderverse is a good example, and not even the best modern one. Plenty of studios are doing things with grit and attention to detail. Stop letting memes dictate how you view the world.
I would kill to get another Fantasia movie. The way the animators brought classical pieces to life with their visual interpretations was nothing short of genius.
Amen to that
fantasia 2000 is so beautiful it makes me tear up.
If they make too many then the existing ones will be cheapened. Still we might get a new Fantasia during an anniversary. 2023 marks the 100 year anniversary of the Disney company, so that's a possibility.
The Ave Maria segment in the first Fantasia is probably one of the most visually striking animated scenes in history, no joke.
Hard disagree, the original Fantasia looked great but it was boring as hell
The Prince of Egypt is such an underrated masterpiece
The scene of the ocean splitting in the prince of Egypt is honestly one of the most beautiful things in animation ever
I’m happy that movies like Klaus are carrying the torch for now. A truly seamless blend of 2d animation and 3d assets. You know it’s good when you can’t tell the difference
Iirc klaus is entirely 2d but the lighting used make it look better.
Yall sleeping on irish based animation studio : Cartoon Saloon 🇮🇪
klaus is made entrily 2D with lighting that makes it look 3D
@@HellishSpoon Some elements like the carriage were 3D assets but the fact that I needed to watch a VFX breakdown to even notice that is a testament to the quality of the movie.
Arcane is one example of 3d and 2d mixed well
The fluid 2D animation in western animations will always be missed
The same thing happened or indian animation
There were artists creating passion projects and they experimented a lot (theya were not always a feature length movie, but they did make quality stuff)
@@LL-oq5sf now there's motu patlu👍
@@tanveerrahman8415 lmao
@@tanveerrahman8415 lmao i watched motu patlu after watching demon slayer(for fun) damm i noticed the quality change
You should give the anime movies from that time back then a chance as well. Even today the animation from that time is just mind blowing. Western went CG and Anime unfortunately suffered over the years with the new rule of quantity over quality. So both east and west degraded in animation quality :(
the scene in atlantis where kida is rising into the floating pillars remains my fav piece of animation work ever-it always takes my breath away. old animation was gorgeous.
Я благодарна художникам прошлых десятилетий,что они рисовали такие шикарные мультики,не спали ночами,они подарили мне шикарное детство.
Сейчас большинство студий не пытаются даже приблизиться к рисовке прошлого, просто один и тот же конвейер. Нет изюминки.
I love how much Hercules is on here. Love it for both art style and sentimental reasons as my aunt worked as one of the head concept artists. That movie was probably my favorite movie she worked on out of the bunch she did.
She passed unfortunately a few years ago, but this movie always brings a smile to my face remembering the time we shared.
Much respect for your aunt bro 😭
Never got the chance to see that film, my only exposure to Herc has been through the Kingdom Hearts games. Really cool that your aunt's work has had such an impact that it can still be felt all these years later.
Hercules was one of my favorite films growing up, Rest In Peace 🙏
I grew up on Hercules
Are you talking about a woman named Jane?
*"MAKE WESTERN ANIMATION GREAT AGAIN!"*
(As an Animator this video brings happiness and grief to my heart, have started in my career with paper and pencil and still doing it today here in America, and seeing this gives me Inspiration to keep going, thank you for this edit)
Wow, I want to be an animator too.
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This is my dream!
@@RuminatingKiwi927 2d or 3d?
Get at it bro
Old school animation is like opera in motion. There is nothing like it today, and there never will be... sadly.
Watching the Prince of Egypt was a major perk of going to religion class on sunday.
There are some criminally underrated movies from this era of western animation, movies like Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure planet, Pocahontas. The mixture of 2D and CGI worked really well with these movies.
I remember constantly mixing treasure planet with Titan Ae, know anyplace I can watch Titan again?
@@awanderer3047 mixing? what??
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 I constantly got them confused
@@awanderer3047 Happens the same to me, i have completely forgotten about Titan A.E and thought that his scenes was from Treasure planet
The Prince of Egypt seems to be the most underrated to me
It is a shame that even with the advancements of technology furthering the boundaries of what artists can do, the best animations are from the 90s and early 2000s only being surpassed in resolution.
arcane
We are in a situation where technology has progressed so far that it has become acceptable for million-dollar-an-episode TV shows to have lower visual fidelity of 70's made-for-TV stop motion. Flash itself is not a blight, but it has inspired the laziest generation in professional animation.
The technology is greater but the drive of the people is lesser
@@jakemalloy4947 i will take arcane over your toady Court of Versailles "new hotness" any day. Lol. It's not 'arcane" it's 'based'. Something you New Pepsi kids nevar are.
@@KaiTakApproach I am going to be honest, I have no idea what you are talking baout. Arcane is the name of a show.
The prince of Egypt is such a good movie
Even if you're not Christian, you should absolutely watch Prince of Egypt. It's just incredible.
A big part of this issue comes from the demand of corporations. I mean Disney didn't didn't want to make Treasure Planet because the technology required to make it was slowly going out of style. The only reason it was made was because it was a passion project of two renowned animators. Even modern cartoons that try to do interesting things story and visual wise end up getting canceled because they "don't fit the brand"
That's why independent filmmaking needs to be the new norm. Today is easier than ever. You no longer need expensive ass camera rigs, rows of artist applying color, massive studios, selling your talent to the rat, etc.
A bunch of people with computers have done incredible stuff.
@@DonVigaDeFierro except this is gonna end because most of cinematography is going straight to online services, so everything will be netflix / Disney recycled bs
Western culture is dead.
And sadly, the public gave them the reason...
When Klaus tricks the academy into thinking it’s 3D and gets an award:
Modern problems require modern solutions
Lmao
This is why i think it's time to bring back 2D animation back in everything from movies to even cartoons
If you look at movies like Rango, you'll realize how much potential 3D has. Shame it's not being used most of the time
1:15 this still gave me goosebumps. What an awe-inspiring dedication to creativity and craft.
which movie is that from??
@@raquelsf3595 The Prince of Egypt
Took them two years and an entirely new program to animate that scene
Legit 🔥🔥🔥
@@sofiadeniseperez254 The Prince of Egypt talks about the Bible, right?
I love the added touch of "image of the dead" coupled with pictures of 2D animators at 0:13. Like remembering your friends as you watch the world cave in
Prince of Egypt is a forgotten masterpiece.
That mulan shot with the huns streaming down the mountain is awe inspiring
Do you guys remember how these older animation movies ignited our imaginations? They were captivating and magical. They were so much better than the newer movies.
Older animated movies, at least in my opinion, heavily committed to being symbolic and with that, those older movies were true pieces of art that held meaning through their symbolic and beautiful animation.
@@originalpost1925 Facts
That's the point. They want to remove that. It's why real art is so important right now. Art that inspires.
To be fair, we now have a new generation of young independent artists that would love to stray away from industry norms and keep 2D animation alive.
But sad to see such beautiful knowledge just go to waste.
@ligia the Wolf Haven't watched it, but Saberspark did a video about one animation called "Brand New Animal".
It's an anime but with animals.
Or you can watch Beastars, which is pretty much Zootopia but rated M.
I really hope that as the ability to animate becomes more and more accessible, independent artists can definitively prove that it's okay to break away from the "safe" model that the big studios have been clinging onto for so long. "Mainstream" animation has mostly been basically the same style for years with the only difference being how shiny the lighting effects are as time goes on. Totally superficial "innovations".
@ligia the Wolf You should watch Cartoon Saloon's movies Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells and Wolfwalkers. They're all beautiful 2D/Hand-drawn animated movies centred around irish folklore.
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Old Disney and pre 2011 Pixar were the pioneers of animation, and now they’re both a shadow of their former selves
Don't forget Don Bluth's studio, either. _Secret of NIMH_ is amazing.
Disney will never be this good again
I wish DreamWorks made more 2D movies before they shifted completely to 3D. The Prince of Egypt gives me chills every time and Spirit is my favorite animated movie.
The Spirit soundtrack fucking slaps
The Road to El Dorado is another classic from them. One of the best animated comedies.
If they did that there would be no shrek
@thesweetteaguy one word: Chel
@@Boo-8814 Oh well
It's probably due to nostalgia, bias or some crap, but am I only the one here who thinks animated movies in the 90s and 2000s (both 2D and 3D) are incredibly beautiful and magnificent? Like, they did not only leave a significant impact in my childhood, but also subtly finessed and shaped my thoughts in thinking what a good animation is like.
Yes, you are the only one, no way there is anybody else out of 58495 people who watched this video thinks the same.
Anybody with a functioning brain and knowledge of modern animated movies probably thinks so
Its not nostalgia, its called objective beauty.
This is definitely the right place to ask this question, in the comment section of a video praising old animated movies. theres no way you could be the only one HERE.
Maybe its just the way you worded it, but it sounds just like "im 11 and this is deep" or "i was born in the wrong generation" type thing.
sorry for the negativity.
It's not necessarily Bias to say some stuff is more beautiful than others, and in this particular case, western animations WERE a lot better before, nowadays we still have some good looking 3d movies sure, but we never saw the same quality we had during the golden age of the 90s to 2000s.
The chief of animation in the college i go to worked in disney and is responsible for the way rapunzel’s hair is animated, which had never been done before…and one time at a town hall he was speaking at he talked about how much he misses 2D animation, and that felt just so significant coming from a cgi pioneer
Recent update: a former Disney employee has come out to say that they have no way to go back to 2D animation. Both the equipment and techniques used have been lost, forgotten, and thrown out. So if 2D comes back, it won’t be through Disney. 😔
Anime keeps it alive
@@alchemistofsteel8099anime isn’t the same
Never realised how cinematic these films were before now.
Prince of Egypt is truly an inspired work of creativity, I feel like people of any religion can appreciate the beauty of the film
Prince of Egypt is a timeless Masterpiece...
Everytime I rewatch this I cry a little because I remember growing up with these films
The other Little dark age video on Animation was gone, so this is my new one.
Why is it gone?
@@harrypagaran4226 copyright claim
I wish i nabbed a back up of it before that, it was a great edit
@@jack.h99 Let's hope it comes back
Do you remember who the RUclipsr that made it was?
Disney Villains then: *Literally Satan*
Disney Villains now: old hispanic woman.
oh you mean Abuela?
chancla for you
Encanto it’s probably one of the best movies to come out in this few years Not every movie needs to have some big terrible antagonist. Sometimes stories don’t need a Satan like being to drive their characters. Encanto it’s about generational trauma so why does the villain need to be Satan?
To be fair old hispanic women are scarier than literally satan
Encanto was good ngl
Meme aside, this is genuenly an amazingly cut video. A great tribute to the months of work that animators spent on each of those shots.
Don Bluth would be disappointed about modern animation. That genre deserves some respect and it needs to bring back 2D movies like this.
i love the old western animations they have this weird "hue" to them that makes them feel extra nostalgic
In some studios, stylised animation is making a comeback. Wolf Walkers by Cartoon Saloon for example was absolutely gorgeous! I hope such skilled art becomes more popular in the future
ARCANE as well. Kind of funny this video dropped around the same time as that series did on Netflix.
I actually cried about how much nostalgia i missedover my years..
We really did these things. We could do them again.
Thank you for including Atlantis: The Lost Empire. I'm so glad there are others who appreciate it.
that movie, that movie shaped my childhood, the mixture between ancient fantasy-like technology and modern steampunk, it sang entire symphonies to me as a kid
I got the Disney Kida doll that got released last month for the movie's 20th year celebration and it's beautiful! The movie is an amazing mark of animation history!
The fact is that Atlantis has some of the best animated sequences there has ever been on big screen. Even the characters were all very likable. Though its last 3rd is pretty meh storywise, its still clearly one of the more underrated Disney films there is. It deserved alot more.
@@Killjoy45 "Hey look, I made a bridge! And it only took me what, ten seconds?"
@@agustinvizcaino9274 "maybe eleven"
The Fruit getting ripped in half while also being synced up with the song at 00:54 is probably one of the most satisficing things ever
Even at 1:00 when the whale appears.
2D animation is legendary, both Western and others, and as a Russian I like the fact that people from the West began to perceive our animation during the Soviet Union, for example, the recent popularity of Treasure Island.
Omg how could you make such a powerful edit... Every single hair on my body just rose straight up 😢 so many fantastic memories. I watched Atlantis like fifty times when I was a kid I knew this movie by heart!
Is literally no one going to talk about that sync from the lion king scene in 0:53 ?
No
@@user-vz6cc2di4d Yes.
@@user-vz6cc2di4d Yes.
I feel like late 1900s to early 2000s was where we got the best shows, for both anime/manga and western animation.
eastern animation ??
anime still put out an astronomical amount of amazing shows in the 2010's that looked gorgeous, but I definitely agree that they've only barely scratched the peak of what they had in the 90's
Man that gave me chills
Modern artists have the capacity to make good art like they have in the past.
Its just that the people that fund them, corporations, want them to make profitable products over artistic ones, ignroing the fact that these two things are not mutually exclusive.
Its a travesty.
Everyone's talking about the message but I need to give praise to the damn well made edit, it just captures what made western animation so captivating in the first place
its ok. Some scenes are shown for too little, you dont really get to appreciate them.
The moment animated movies transformed from "family movies" to "childens media" everything went down the drain. Parent dont take their kids to the movies so that they all can enjoy something, but just to please the kid by showing them the thing they were fed through phone ads
I think animated movies were considered more for kids back then
@ayy lmao LOL Minecraft is old enough that people are doing the "good old days" thing
A fragment of this incredible animation like this still exists within Indie animators, those who recognize the greedy corporate direction animation has taken in the 2010s. We can still save it, don’t ever lose hope.
3D animation is absolutely beautiful too if done right. My favorite 3D animated movie is definitely The Adventures of Tintin.
The stylized motion capture, character designs which are faithful to source material, visual effects, action sequences, cast performances and of course the musical score are all top notch and perfectly blended together to create such a beautiful blockbuster of a film.
It’s not just nostalgia, everything sucks now
Agree man. Why can't we have nice animation like before? Why's everything gotta look like barbie now?
@@danieldietz8292 adult animation and children's animation are really garbage now. Even Hollywood entertainment is straight pile of shit. The latest thats come out was the same cluche stupid horror Scream, now we have Jackass forever which just a bunch of guys doing the most disgusting and stupid idiotic things ever. Western culture in general has devolved to hustling money in a endless cage fight for scraps so you can buy material garbage that doesn't make you happy
Into the Spider-Verse: am I a joke to you?
@@alexwebber04 they just made a throwback in SV, and then ruined it again
🤘😔. Video game studios love to act like their costumers expect too much also.
In my opinion, since most of the older western animated movies were based of historicaly important legends and books, the creators actually respected what they were creating was based of, when you look at the shots you got for this video everything seems to have a biblical sense to it or seems like it's a piece of art that is moving, and these shots kind of act the way books and arts work, they are meant to have a deeper meaning and for us to look at it and stimulate our imagination, I'm not much into reading or art because I kind of find it boring but I understand what they mean and how important they are, it's just a shame that most of the modern animators doesn't seem to get that, they just seem like they want to make a movie with silly jokes for kids and make a profit out of it, because what I think that happened through out the years is that animators started to think: "Oh these animations are to complex, the kids won't understand what's going on" wich is wrong because these movies aren't meant "just for kids" they are meant for everyone, kids will look at these movies and even though they might not understand everything that is going on with the story, they still be stunned by the beautifull imagery, colors and artistical moments and it will stimulate their imagination, while the more grown up people will watch it and understand the meaning of what's going on and be in for a 1/2 hour incredible fun and well crafted ride, I think that what most modern animators are missing.
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis
Alladin was not respectful to it's "origins" at all. I'd say nowadays movies are more accurate because more information about stuff like different cultures are aviable, as well as more people of different ethnicities who are a part of said culture are working in industry. The problem is not with stories, it's within the big companies: they don't want to take risks and create something original, they rely on formula and what brings money the most
@@galvanizeddreamer2051 you just crushed people's arguments on why the new star wars movie are good(because they're total CRAP!!!) Just because you like "It", dose Not mean "It" is Good, in short terms.
@@rebelrebel8398 Alladin was a Persian Story Stolen & muddled up by the Islamist. Plus when Jasmine "stole the Apple scene" the cartoon had it right, she would of had her hand cut off for thievery, but the live action was Off & Not Historically Accurate. Not according to Old world Laws & Shariah Law of Saudi Arabia.
Now we only have stuff who are for putting in the brain of children by ""modernism"" .
Now I don't have read the bible, but deep down I thinks the time approch I would read it for a particular reason : Nostalgie, because I will see everything that is inspired by it and remember them, I will still be hable to learn stuff in the book too. Now wonder for the two other, sad that we don't have more clearn remaining of previous story but they where less good writter so sadly that happen.
We have transitioned from Direct to VHS to direct to streaming.
Go humanity.
The animation was just magical. It flowed and sucked you into the world they were creating. It's sad that it's gone.
That shot at 0:53 fits perfectly with the sound 👌
My passion is 2D animation and seeing this video got my surprisingly teary eyed because it was a reminder of how incredibly passionate and full of soul animations of the pre-digital age were. Everything was pain stakenly made on hand painted cels, risk taking was encouraged, original ideas were encouraged, meaningful storytelling through imagery were carefully thought out, and thee people who worked on these older animations were legends. Nowadays everything is uninspired forgettable 3D animation made not for the purpose of telling a compelling or meaningful story with a good message, but instead for how much it can create revenue and sell merchandise for the company. I’m not saying all modern animation is bad but the majority are and it sounds very cynical of me to say but it’s just true and obvious when you compare the animations before 2001 (whenever cel animation became completely obsolete) with the animations of the last decade.
Oh i completely agree with you, if i ever get a child, i will show them only these cool movies, original, risk taking, but of course, some of the modern animations as well.
I completely agree with you dude
I like 3D animation,but God am i sick of It.I Wish to see more 2d stuff on the big screen
You guys can watch anime if you like 2d stuff. Some are really good.
love your profile pic
A disney warhammer classic animation would be BRUTAL
Here is the list of all the films featured in this video because I noticed a lot of people here want to watch them all!
Fantasia/2000 (Disney-1999)
Anastasia (Don Bluth/Fox-1997)
Mulan (Disney-1998)
Hercules (Disney-1997)
The Iron Giant (WB-1999)
Sleeping Beauty (Disney-1959)
Treasure Planet (Disney-2002)
Atlantis (Disney-2001)
Pocahontas (Disney-1995)
The Little Mermaid (Disney-1989)
Tarzan (Disney-1999)
Aladdin (Disney-1992)
Beauty And The Beast (Disney-1991)
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Disney-1996)
The Lion King (Disney-1994)
The Secret Of NIMH (Don Bluth/MGM-1982)
The Prince Of Egypt (Dreamworks- 1998)
Fantasia (Disney-1940)
Dinosaurs (Disney-2000)
Ty very much
Absolute king
Lifesaver
Thank you kind sir
the crownless king
Only in 2d animation, we can capture the soul of animation. Because anima = soul in latin.
3d isn't bad it just kills the mystic feeling of the animation. recently i watched dragon ball super super hero and i really liked the way the mixed 3d with 2d and polished it
As somone who animated professionally I gotta say whats really going on is if you notice all those 2D shots at the later half of the video could easily be just as stunning in 3D because of the overall shot composition and direction.
Its an artistic problem. People are getting hired onto these 3D films for technical knowledge. It takes so much time and energy to get good at anything in 3D so people specialize (rigging, modeling, UVing, texturing, lighting, hair, cloth, particles etc).
Writing, acting, story telling, cinematography and a general understanding of the traditional art is neglected.
Well, a lot of these shots utilize some form of CGI anyway. They’re just blended incredibly well.
yeah i honestly think 3D can be really well done, especially cause it’s not just a matter of if it’s 3D or not, it’s like what you said
And we can see proper 3d animation shine sometimes in movies that embrace stylistic choices rather than going for realism. It can be beautiful, it's not the medium that's gone wrong here
So this is why every modern animated blockbuster from Disney, Dreamworks, that shitty Minions studio, etc look and feel the same. It all looks sterile, which is what the big wigs of Hollywood care. As long as it makes their kids happy with all the commercialized familiarity in the industry... they don't want to put any money into doing something artistically different.
Thank you for spreading knowledge and insight on the industry.
That clip at 1:00 from The Prince of Egypt is awsome
Those times were the Golden era of animation. Glad I grew up watching them ☺️
And not to forget the powerful soundtracks following these epic movies. The soundtrack of The Prince of Egypt is still in my opinion one of the bestsoundtracks ever made
It's not even the so-called 'death' of hand-drawn animation that gets me. It's that it had to dissolve into something so forgettable in "Brother Bear" that does get me.
Animation has always had its ups and downs. Don't tell me you don't remember the weird straight-to-video sequels of the Disney animated movies (Tarzan 2, Mulan 2, Fox and the hound 2...)
But nowadays, it's mostly downs, while ups are becoming more and more rare.
@@DonVigaDeFierro I’d recommend Hilda for a very nice integration of a crayon comic style into an animated format, plus it’s a show that has so much love put into it that it never fails to restore my faith in the future of animation.
@@friendist9323 Just gave it a go.
Hell, it's very, very good.
As much as Anime currently dominates the animation scene nowadays we forget, 20th century western animation, particularly early Disney is what inspired a lot of the great Japanese animators too. This downfall of creativity could also be a sign of our own cultures decline. Sad really
@@rajahbitancor8960 False there is still great stuff like soul and enchento that are more recent trying to blame it on politics Isn’t gonna work.
cartoons tv shows, pxiar, disney and sony are we joke to you?
Tbh Animes arent what they used to be either.
Rewatching monster and its detailed art made me realize how poor todays quality is. I was amazed how Newsletters actually Had entire articles instead of lines that represent text AS a small example
@@dullinator1059 Ikr I have to agree with you. T me both anime and western have had a decline in quality and storytelling ever since this generation has started probably do to the fact that things have become way less harder now and people lack work ethic nowadays since they really don’t really have to do as much as they did back then and it is also considered in today’s world outdated. To me the prime of animation was in the 1970-2000 than the fall became around 2012 imo.
Anime aren't any better though lol, people be acting as if every anime were masterpiece but around 95% of them are isekai trash, harem bullshit, stupid shonen,... The west have way less production but a lot of amazing ones too. For instance, people always talk about Avatar, Invincible or Arcane but nobody speak about Dofus: Julith or the lastest seasons of Clone Wars.
Apart from the animation style itself, I just don't know if they do shots like these anymore. 0:32 to 0:40 for example (and others in this video), are so beautifully framed and dynamic. Even small shots feel big (like the pocahontas shot) and big scenes feel huge.
Also, Arcane is a great example of beautiful modern animation. I don't know the exact details, but I think it's a mix of 2d and 3d.
It’s mostly 2D with character 3D and some environment/prop 3D. Truly a blessing for western animation.
the thing is we can still do this. Hell, we can create these amazing images even easier now but for some reason we just... don't???
I mean Pixar is really the only studio that still does amazing graphics like this but even they don't go all out
One of my favorite movies with a similar animation is Klaus, and it's quite current. I really liked the effort they put into it.
As a visual artist myself, it hits me hard seeing such hard work and excellence. They knew how to kill animation back then, esp in the 90s. Jeez, where did the talent go?
The talent is still very much there just look at animation schools RUclips accounts. Those students however get employed by companies that don’t want to pay them properly and who want to go with cheaper age options.It’s not a lack of talent but a lack of investment in the final product
@@di7209 I suppose I mean the talent in the movies themselves. It's not just movies. The music industry is also producing music of far less quality than a couple of decades. Entertainment as a whole has become a factory to churn out product as cheaply as possible. There are without a doubt highly talented individuals out there, but the corporations are more interested in putting out second rate empty nothingness.
Reemplazados por medios más baratos de crear contenido de forma masiva abandonando la trama y el esfuerzo
Todo se trata de dinero
0:43 wether you're Religious or not gotta admit that Prince of Egypt movie was pretty good.