Why did Disney ever abandon this art style? 😢

Those old Disney films that were drawn by hand will always be the real Disney films to me. The modern 3D versions aren't bad, but they've never given me the same feeling as the old films.

One of my favorite Disney movies.

I agree, now we are stuck with this.

The sword in the stone is one of the best animated movies ever.

What kind of dumbass pulls a sword by its Blade

Greed. The answer is always greed.

This nigga took over

Because Don Bluth left to do his own thing.

Because it's difficult work by extremely skilled artists that required training. That inevitably made it a labor of love for many of the artists. That's not what Disney does anymore. They don't make art, they distribute "content," preferably as a vehicle for ideological narrative

Because Don Bluth decided to start his own studio, Disney had an amazing Animator with him but their insistence on creative control ultimately made Don leave, if you look at his work after Disney you'll see how dark it is compared to what Disney is today, I'll never forget All dogs go to Heaven

I miss it too. Robin Hood is my favorite.

This era from 101 Dalmatians through Robin Hood is Disney's best.

The real question is why did they abandon THIS art style.

Oh my God...Granpa Joe is here!

Don Bluth took it when he left.

When I first watched this movie in like 5th grade, my best friend pointed to this guy and was like "Yo I like that guy, that guy is my favorite character" and it always stuck with me bc of how absolutely fucking random it was that this guy was his favorite character.

This hand-drawn magic hits different 😭✨

Watching Pixar's success pushed them to abandon classical animation. However Pixar's success came from great storytelling more than the medium itself.

"Look, small children yanking swords out of rocks is no basis for a system of government."

Because Investors said:

It looks good when it's original, but there were a bunch of recycling when it comes to reusing the same sound effects and even the animations themselves. Don't get me wrong, the movies with this animation style are still amazing.

Everything changed when Walt died.

Disney didn't abandon it, they exterminated it by driving away risk-taking geniuses like @DonBluth in favor of shareholder-driven cookie-cutter stock.

It was and still is the best the characters are have so much realism to them

Because it was bad. There’s a reason that what comes after this is considered the Disney Renaissance.

Expensive and ridiculously slow.

Sword in the Stone. Loved that movie as a child and I still do

That's crappy xerography era Disney. Complete sht compared to the Golden Age in the 30s. They fired animators once color copiers came out. You're highlighting Disney's worst quality era. This account is Nostalgia slop.

drawing 100,000 images is hard.

xkcd nailed it.

Better question. Why did Disney abandon kid appropriate movies?

CGI/CAT art is just cheaper and easier to do as you don't need to hire capable and expensive skilled artists.

Because this king wouldn’t allow Jews

The less hand drawing, the more it looks like it does now. One of the very last ‘largely’ hand animated Disney films was this one, which is, for my money, an overlooked gem…

Because it costs more than their endless cgi slop