>>47052164>"It looks completely different in Japan">dumbass forgets that I referred to several Japanese game studios that had to drop hand drawn spritesIf hand-drawn animation is so much less expensive, tell me why most game studios have dropped it. I'll wait.
>it sure as fuck becomes less expensive than hiring 3D animators and using 3D animation.Because they aren't willing to take shortcuts with models either. Everyone already knows anime gets more income from Blu-Rays than TV viewership, so several studios pull off short cuts with episodes. Just look at DBS.
>>47052200>Even just using the same company as your example of Treasure Planet, modern Disney Pixar movies like Frozen, Coco, and Wreck it Ralph 1 AND 2 had ones that are either estimate or confirmed higher.Gee, it's almost like with technologies evolving, film studios become a lot more ambitious.
That said, I'll take the L and compare contemporaries for you: The Princess and the Frog (Disney's last traditionally animated film) had a 105 million budget, while Tangled (which came out a year later) had 260 million budget. I'll take it for sure, that's a lot more expensive. However, there's also cases where my point works, see Toys Story 2's 90 million vs Tarzan's whopping 130, and they're both from the same year.
However, the fact that Disney dropped traditional animation despite that huge difference in budget, shows how consuming the style is budget and time-wise, and why we don't see it as often anymore.
That's my main point.
