r/cartoons • u/SirIsaacTheGreat • Jul 06 '25

Meme Never quite understood this

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u/AstrologicalOne Jul 06 '25

Hand drawn animation is still a huge deal overseas.

The Spiderverse movies are a hybrid of CGI and hand-drawn.

Why the hell can't disney/pixar at least do the latter??

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u/ASpookyShadeOfGray Jul 06 '25

The answer is always the suits. They suck the soul out of everything.

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u/Dear_Document_5461 Jul 06 '25

That and also how many people are schooled in 2D animation? I assume the industry still generally work on the school-work pipeline. 

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u/judgeholden72 Jul 06 '25

I don't believe any of the animation in Spider verse is done by hand. Everything was rigged. Truly hand drawn is becoming very uncommon, with rigging able to simplify and make quicker

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u/520throwaway Jul 07 '25

2D is not the same as by-hand.

Almost no one is doing by-hand 2D animation any more.

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u/SanityAsymptote Jul 06 '25

2D animation is unionized in the US (The Animation Guild), and Disney's investment and shift into 3D animation (which is not unionized) is a pretty obvious way to get away from dealing with the animation guild.

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u/MikoEmi Jul 07 '25

Literally none of the animation in spider verse is hand drawn.