The Change Mariner

Disney Threatened By 3-D Animation

Contra Costa Times:

Meanwhile, Disney is undergoing a radical transformation of its own, experiencing wrenching internal changes in its bedrock animation business.

For the first time in decades, the entertainment giant that pioneered feature-length animation with 1937's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" has no traditional animated big-budget movies in production.

The sea change comes as audiences and most Hollywood studios have largely shunned traditional 2-D hand-drawn animation in favor of cartoons that feature dazzling, lifelike images generated on a computer..