Disney's Hand-Drawn Tradition Article

The overview of the article was about how Moana is bringing back Disney's use of hand-drawn animation. The three key points were that a character in the film Moana, the tattoo on Maui named Mini-Maui, was hand-drawn atop the 3-D animation.

The author didn't really have much of an argument, other than just stating that Disney has really started to come back to what they started with: hand-drawn animations. The article says that Disney hasn't done a hand-drawn animation since 2009's Princess and The Frog. The author supports this with several quotes from the head animator of Moana. as well as some of the animation supervisors in the film.

The author has several strengths, in my opinion. They use a lot of quotes from the creators of Moana, which I believe causes the article to make a stronger argument. I believe the only weaknesses they really had was that there were some grammatical issues, along with some spelling errors. Though, the content of the article is incredible. They have a lot of quotes and the article is very informative of how the hand-drawn character was incorporated into a 3-D animation film. They share how the crew felt about the drawings, along with the process on how the character came to be the way it is.

The author is overall just talking about how the Mini-Maui on Maui's chest is hand-drawn, there wasn't really more to that other than how Disney hadn't done that in awhile.

I do believe that the article is relevant to the development of Disney. This article shows how Disney is going back to their old ways and using the hand-drawn method that they started with to represent characters in a more cartoony way.

The author didn't really have many points to begin with, the article was an informative piece that showed how Disney was working back to what they began with. I do believe that the evidence is convincing to share with how the artists and the crew overall felt about the use of 2-D animation.

This article was very thorough in showing how 2-D animation is still around and not everything has to be 3-D, nor does it have to be made in a digital program. It could be made on a piece of paper and just scanned and put into a computer program to set it into motion, which would affect me as I am in an animation class.

There is nothing in the article that I did not understand. The author was very clear in their vocabulary and their statements.

I thought that the article was pretty cool, that's it.

Here's the article.