Today, most animated films are made entirely digitally.
"But Moore believes that computer graphics are subject to a built-in obsolescence. 'Computer animation is moving so fast that ‘Toy Story’ looks really ropy now,' he said. 'Whereas there are hand-drawn films from the nineteen-forties that still stand up. 'Bambi' still looks really timeless. And that’s because its language is the language of painting and illustration, rather than the language of the latest technology.'"
In the late 70s, as Disney studios went into a state of decline after Walt Disney's death, one of its animators, Don Bluth, opened Sullivan Bluth Studios, the first rival to Disney. He industrialized the film animation process, and as it began to see competition, Disney produced a string of hits from "Aladdin" to "The Lion King". Sullivan Bluth eventually went out of business, but not before it set up an animation course at a nearby university. That's where Tomm Moore, a director and founder of Cartoon Saloon, enrolled in 1995. There he met Paul Young and Nora Twomey, who went on to found the animation studio with him.
