Disney Fail...

[ThunderPeel2001]

Ok, so it's not the world's biggest crime, but the video is oddly disturbing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOIrXGd51jE

[DanJW]

I find it kinda cool. Like an Easter Egg.

[OssK]

And you'll never guess what, in every anime movie, when the guys run, it's just a cycle of something like 10 drawings for the whole run... Would you have believed it ?

It's some classical animation technique, although it's funny that they use it from one film to the next, you should watch the 3 Fievel movies and be shocked out of your socks by the similarities of the animations

[syntheticgerbil]

I've seen all these Disney shortcuts before, but this youtube video puts them all together pretty effectively.

And you'll never guess what, in every anime movie, when the guys run, it's just a cycle of something like 10 drawings for the whole run... Would you have believed it?

If you are talking about 10 drawings for a run cycle that is pretty efficient, so I don't see the problem there. However, I think in many crappy animes you'll find like 4 drawing run cycles.

It's not necessarily an animation technique to reuse stuff. It's just reusing stuff.

...you should watch the 3 Fievel movies and be shocked out of your socks by the similarities of the animations

I'm confused. Bluth did work at Disney before starting his own studio with other disgruntled Disney workers. He is well known for using tons of Disney company animation techniques and theories, to the point of a lawsuit, or at least the threat of one. I thought there were only two Fievel movies, but anyways only the first one was produced by Don Bluth's studios, much like The Land Before Time, so the offending studio is not the original studio.

I don't really like Don Bluth's work though, so I don't enjoy talking about him.

Here's some of my other older favorite Disney failures:

http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm

http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/atlantis.html

Oops! But then again, what Japanese animation studio is going to take on the largest media company in the world?

Also to note on Atlantis, I get the idea they ripped off Mike Mignola before realizing they ought to hire him to prevent any lawsuits from him or Dark Horse. This may not be true, but here is an interesting older interview:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=37&page=article

The Atlantis deal I didn't really spend a lot of time on. I could've spent more, I'll say that. It was such a bizarre experience. They called me to come out there and I walk in and they had already started doing it in my style and taken Disney type characters and pushed them in my style. They had stuff hanging on the wall with my drawings and their stuff over the top of it, notes with directions of how to draw like me, what I do and not do. I went in and looked at it and said, "Wow, that's interesting." But, I didn't teach anyone to draw like me. They already had someone doing that. They just asked what did I want to do. So, I focused on the design for how the city looked, how it would be revealed, various architectural designs. I was told, "Do whatever you want." I'd be there a couple of days, go home, work on comic stuff, cough up a couple ideas and go back to work on Hellboy and then never hear from them. Then they'd call me, I'd go to LA a couple of days and then get back to work on Hellboy. I basically forgot I had anything to do with it, the last two years! Then it's being advertised.