It seems that Dan Kois does at the point he decided to write an article to defend them.

It's a well written article, that praises the quality of those productions. He says that these sequels worth no less than those CG productions with lots of fart jokes and pop culture gags.

I agree we have quite a lot of awful movies (1, 2) nowdays, but I don't think that this alone justifies these "easy money back" effort from Disney.

The technical quality of these sequels is great? I think that's a pretty obvious statement when we think about how many gifted artists work at Disney.

The problem is how they get a story which stands for itself and try do extend it to another one, telling what happened after the "lived happily ever after". Don't you think that a movie called Cinderella III sounds a bit strange? What about Bambi II?

Have you ever seen your masters at work? By following this link you'll probably find them.

I did. =D

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There was a time in animation when the film openings and credits were carefully hand drawn. There was much more about animation than just arcs, overlapping, squash'n'stretch and follow through.

Today, the computer days, what most animators do is simply choose a font in a huge list with little (or not at all) knowledge in typography. Sometimes he or she happens to ruin a good work with a "Comic Sans" (ouch) or "Staccato" font.

Animation happens to be much more than just moving a puppet around: you have to know about film making, photography and even typography.

I've collected some links that can be useful on that:

Article about choosing the right type;

Typography museum;

5 simple steps to a better use of types;

Types made by designer Mark Simonson, inspired by old movie letterings;

Tipografos.net (portuguese);

Tipocracia (portuguese);

 

Disney usually makes different versions for their movie posters for better adaptation to different countries. Ratatouille was no exception:

Portuguese

Chinese?? (no clue, really)

Hungarian

English

CGArena has an interesting article on preparing our portfolio and how to behave in a job interview.

Basically the article is about questions answered by Ed Harriss, author of the book entitled "How to get a job in Computer Animation".