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So, how about Frozen? Well, if Elsa was the antagonist instead of being a victim, we might be in adult territory. Up is a hybrid – half for kids, half for adults. But the second half, set in Paradise Valley, is strictly for kids with talking dogs that fly airplanes, and that large chocolate-eating bird. Animation is ready to take its place as the artistic equal of live-action filmmaking. What, exactly, is adult-themed, narrative-driven feature animation? Couldn’t we say that Pixar’s Up is adult-themed? Well, the first half of it is. But, meanwhile, new platforms for exhibition are proliferating, and animation as an art form is ready to move out of the children’s nursery. They will continue selling stuff and watching their stock prices rise. Hollywood studios are going to continue doing what they do because they are very good at it. This is what has happened to the animation art form since 1937: Storytelling has secondary to merchandising.Īnd so, the industry is moving to the next plateau. Walt Disney, in his time, also loved merchandising.īut Walt was, at heart, a storyteller.

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Or, maybe characters from the movie will occupy their own special corner of a theme park somewhere in the world. Maybe the movie will be turned into a Broadway musical, or maybe a song from the movie will top the Billboard charts. The back-end will be franchise-oriented and merchandise. When Disney or Pixar make a movie, the production budget will be US$200+ million, and the studio does not expect to recoup the investment from box office. Together, they own or control something like 90% of all feature animation created in North America.

Today, the biggest Hollywood companies are Disney and Comcast.

Animated movies were created mainly for children, and adults were charmed into seeing the movies also, on the premise that, as Walt Disney said, “There is a child in all of us.” The form was then turned into an effective sales tool for branded merchandise, theme parks, breakfast cereals and action-figure toys. Take, for instance, the increased appetite for serious, narrative-driven, adult-themed animated feature films: Walt Disney created narrative-driven animated feature films in 1937, with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The times, they are indeed a’changing, and CCE creative artists can take advantage of the situation if they are inclined to do so.

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The point is that the marketplace is being starved of movies and TV shows at the very same time it is doubling and redoubling its streaming capacity.

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George Lucas’s movies plus the entire film library of what used to be 20th Century Fox will be exclusive to Disney. When that happens, all of Disney’s movies and TV shows will run exclusively on Disney’s own streaming service, as will all of Pixar’s films. Disney Company, the industry’s 800 pound gorilla, is just about to start its own streaming service to compete with Netflix and HBO. Netflix and other streaming services are begging for new animated movies to be produced. Adult-themed, narrative-driven animation is emerging. The industry is undergoing a sea change, becoming less Hollywood centric, less child-oriented and more international. And even more especially: if you do not live in Los Angeles. This is a wonderful time to be an animator, especially if you are interested in working on feature films and TV series. The essay is based on Ed’s Masterclass held in Bratislava in 2019.