OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts: "In the 1960s, Walt Disney joked that one day he'd replace his elite corps of animators, known as the 'Nine Old Men,' and their slow, expensive way of making hand-drawn movies, with Audio-Animatronic figures.
At the end of last month, Walt's joke came true. The studio bearing his name announced that, due to a 'changing creative climate and economic environment,' it will be shutting DisneyToon Studios Australia next year. The studio, which turned out sequels (such as 'Tarzan II,' 'The Lion King II' and 'Bambi II') was the company's last remaining facility creating hand-drawn (or 2-D) traditional animation. To compete in the 3-D computer-generated imagery (or CGI) arena, the house that a hand-drawn mouse built will become a pixels, rather than a paper-and-pencils, place.
As the old animators often asked themselves, 'What would Walt think?'
The decision was not entirely unexpected. In the past few years, Disney 2-D facilities in Florida, France, Canada and Japan have been closed, and 3-D computers have replaced all the traditional animation drawing tables at the studio's home base in Burbank, Calif."
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