"Hand-drawn +3D" Disney Animation Film Artistic Adherence and Technological Innovation

Abstract

Throughout the long development of Disney's animated films for more than half a century, after experiencing the brilliance of the "hand-drawn animation era" and the downturn and hesitation of the "3D animation era", Disney opened up a new era of animated films with the new "3D+ hand-drawn" technology. Its breakthrough in production technology and the inheritance of animation art make it represent the highest level of today's animated films. This paper will try to explore the technical breakthrough and artistic inheritance of Disney's animated films through the brief tracing of Disney's animation production tradition, taking Frozen and Zootopia as examples.