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Disney Animation Studios rarely get a mention next to Pixar, but their 3D films are equally as good. Bolt, Tangled, Wreck-it Ralph, Big Hero 6, Zootopia...

• curtgrimes 3y ago
  Not to mention a little movie named Frozen.
• auxym 3y ago
  I recently read Culture Code, about organizational culture, and it talks about Pixar quite a bit. It is mentioned that after some failures, Disney purchased Pixar then had Pixar execs, including Ed Catmull, come to Disney to instill a culture similar to the one at Pixar. The story is told as a success, with the films you cite as examples of that.
• atonse 3y ago
  Before the never ending sequels on the Pixar side, they actually have settled into a complementary relationship. Pixar does the more adventurous stuff, crazier ideas, totally different kinds of plots and stories/worlds/characters, with a focus on storytelling rather than songs etc. Whereas Disney Animation (with recent titles like Tangled, and the Frozen movies) is the 3d version of what Disney's Animation Studios always did best, take classic stories, and turn them into quasi-musicals with a modern twist, but do it in a really talented way. In my 20s, I used to get mad about the idea that Disney just stole story ideas and made it their own, but this was too reductionist. There is immense talent involved in actually taking an old story, modernizing it, adding all the original music, creating that original new world, building scenes, dialog, all that stuff. And I appreciate it and give Disney a lot more credit nowadays. Whether it's Beauty and the Beast or the Lion King, or modern hits like Frozen and Tangled, they really add a lot in their interpretations of these stories, and make it their own.
  • chx 3y ago
    Zootopia had one song IMO and it was amazing.