[Oversoul]

Steve Jobs directs Disney - Business - Macworld UK

Finally! Disney animation has been on a downward spiral for the last decade and their direct to DVD sequels are sadly illustrative of that trend. My girlfriend is a huge Disney fan so we've (*shudder* to admit) seen a few of these so-called sequels before deciding they were complete wastes of cellulose. They're obviously cheaply produced but how Disney makes enough money off these sequels to justify producing more boggles my mind.

I was a bit afraid with Disney's acquisition of Pixar, but I'm glad to see positive changes come out of the buy. Ed Catmull and John Lasseter are at the helm. Steve's the largest shareholder and sitting on the board. Disney's returning (in a limited capacity) to traditional hand drawn animation this year with Enchanted (even if the animation sequences were drawn by another animation house), and the upcoming The Princess and the Frog. And I really hope Disney goes ahead with Rapunzel, as some of the concept sketches bringing Rococo computer imagery into the fairy tale genre is both new and so classic Disney.

[voodoo]

Meanwhile at Apple: QA is sliding fast downhill. Reports of more or less the entire line of Intel based Macs are experiencing random popping sounds in the external speakers.

More QA ****ups to come...

V

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by voodoo 

Meanwhile at Apple: QA is sliding fast downhill. Reports of more or less the entire line of Intel based Macs are experiencing random popping sounds in the external speakers.

"In the external speakers"?!?! Huh?

I certainly haven't experienced this "popping" from either the built-in internal speakers or when attached in various ways to external speakers (airport express or headphone jack). Anyone experience, or not experience, what voodoo is claiming?

EDIT: on topic, although I think the quality of some of these direct-to-video productions lack the quality of the theater releases, I think they fill a demand some people have for quantity and not quality. My 3 year old would rather have a substandard video every couple weeks than one or two well made films a year. Disney markets to children (as well as adults) and I think Steve Jobs has lost that focus. Sure millions are made from adults watching the yearly Pixar release, but millions are also made from children watching videos at the lower quality levels.

[voodoo]

Originally Posted by Railroader 

"In the external speakers"?!?! Huh?

I certainly haven't experienced this "popping" from either the built-in internal speakers or when attached in various ways to external speakers (airport express or headphone jack). Anyone experience, or not experience, what voodoo is claiming?

Yes, there is a whole thread on this in the OS X forum.

V

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by voodoo 

Yes, there is a whole thread on this in the OS X forum.

V

Really? A whole thread?!?!

Please voodoo, try not to derail the OP's thread anymore.

[voodoo]

Originally Posted by Railroader 

Really? A whole thread?!?!

Please voodoo, try not to derail the OP's thread anymore.

Yes a WHOLE thread. Took you long enough to find it and post some meaningless gibberish in it too. But well done. You found it at last. A sedated monkey might have done so sooner and made more important contribution to it, but this isn't a competition.

Don't worry about it.

V

[Railroader]

Please keep on topic.

[voodoo]

Originally Posted by Railroader 

Please keep on topic.

Please keep on topic

V

[mdc]

Originally Posted by Oversoul 

Steve Jobs directs Disney - Business - Macworld UK

Finally! Disney animation has been on a downward spiral for the last decade and their direct to DVD sequels are sadly illustrative of that trend. My girlfriend is a huge Disney fan so we've (*shudder* to admit) seen a few of these so-called sequels before deciding they were complete wastes of cellulose. They're obviously cheaply produced but how Disney makes enough money off these sequels to justify producing more boggles my mind.

I was a bit afraid with Disney's acquisition of Pixar, but I'm glad to see positive changes come out of the buy. Ed Catmull and John Lasseter are at the helm. Steve's the largest shareholder and sitting on the board. Disney's returning (in a limited capacity) to traditional hand drawn animation this year with Enchanted (even if the animation sequences were drawn by another animation house), and the upcoming The Princess and the Frog. And I really hope Disney goes ahead with Rapunzel, as some of the concept sketches bringing Rococo computer imagery into the fairy tale genre is both new and so classic Disney.

I was also skeptical when Disney bought out Pixar. I was worried they were going to pump out Bugs Life 2, Monsters Inc. 2, etc, and destroy everything good about Pixar.
Thankfully someone realizes that Disney's animated movie department is lacking and needs fixing up.

As good as Pixar is, there is always space for non-3D animated movies and back in the day Disney movies used to be so good. Hopefully they can recreate some of the magic.
More Atlantis*, less Home on the Range.

* I really enjoyed Atlantis. It had a nice storyline, was really amusing, very adult (people died in it), and there wasn't any group songs. On the other hand, the sequel was crap; which brings us back to how Disney really needs a wake up.