" I am so damn tired of the way film and animation studios operate presently that I just get sick to my stomach when I have to deal with them."

Hear, hear! It's about damn time an animation company sprung up that had a fur for pres. We've been so terribly mis-represented so far (curse disney, Grrrrr... although I have to admit, Balto owned).

I totally agree with you on Balto. I own all three films. I also have the Land Before Time film (The First One) which is the one I liked the best due to the fact that Don Bluth's Studio worked on it. The same goes for An American Tale. There are just too many damn sequels now.

Disney has ironically started working a 2d feature which is just so funny when you think about it. They fired pretty much ALL of their 2d Animation Staff not too long ago. How stupid are they? I wonder how they are going to hire new 2d animators after what they did... Hmmm... The thought just makes me want to laugh. As I get my own companies set up more and more I may just snatch some of their former talent to use for my company.

One thing is for sure I won't toss them away. Any animator I hire in the future for my animation division will get full pay and heath care benefits. Let's see Disney do better then that. Hell, I probably even toss in a free yearly vacation for them. Plus, give them sick leave if they have a family emergency. The number of companies that do this for their employees are how many now... hmm... I lost count but I do know for sure the number of companies that do what I am planning to do ain't going up.

No, it is more like they are going in the opposite direction which is straight down.

Heh heh, disney... bunch of useless humans if you ask me. Their occasional hit is probably just pure chance. 'Give a million monkeys a million typewriters...' and so on.

True, Disney has made some rather stupid ass decisions over the last couple of years... Hell, I am being way too nice... that idiot Michael 'whats his name' really screwed up the Disney image.

Hell, if I was Walt Disney... I would come back from the dead, march my zombie ass up to Eisner and proceed to kick his collective ass in every way possible for what he has done to my company. I can't believe the level of stupidity or corporate greed that is going on at Disney these days. They closed down the Disney Australia Animation Studios not to long ago after that branch of the company finished making... ugh... Cinderella (probably mispelled) 3: A Stitch or Whatever in Time. Good grief... all the properties that Disney created in the 1980's and early 1990's and they had to go and make another damn sequel to a classic Disney film. If they were going to close these guys down and give them a pink slip after the final project was finished they could have at least had them make a film based on... hmm... I know... Gargoyles. Geez, nothing is sacred or beyond the greedy hands that now run The Disney Studios.

I recently had a meeting with some former 2d animators from Disney and let me just say that they didn't sound too happy about being given pink slips. It is truly sad to see such talented artists being tossed away like garbage. Then again Disney and pretty much every ... single... bloody... animation studios that exist currently is more interested in producing 3d films more then 2d films.

These idiots don't get it! I don't care if the film is 2d or 3d. I will be happy with the film if it at least has a good solid story that makes me care about the characters and the struggles they go thru in the film . I loved the Lion King. I loved Pocahontas. I loved Mulan! Damn it, Disney, give me either a 2d aka traditionally animated or 3d animated movie I actually WANT to see! I am tired of the Toy Story-clones and others I have seen lately. Cars was good. I liked it but only be cause it is Pixar film. Disney recent purchase of Pixar Animation Studios doesn't make me feel all happy and cheery inside... No! It scares the collective hell out of me to think of what those poor Pixar animators will be forced to do by the bigwigs on the Disney Board of Directors... The thought just sends shivers down my spine. Pixar's image is now officially in danger of being royally screwed up in either one way or another.

Well at least 'Run Disney into the ground' Eisner is gone... 'You are the Weakest Link... Goodbye, Eisner and don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. The new guy that replaced him has his work cut out for him. I wish him luck in fixing and correcting the mistakes that Eisner made. He is going to need it.

Hmmm... I like Shrek, is that Disney? In any case, you should definitely pick up these ex-disney-animators that ur meeting 4 ur company! And Mushu was the best char in Mulan 4 2 reasons:
1. Dragon
2. Eddie Murphie

I agree. I loved Mushu. He was such a fun character. Eddie Murphy gave him a real interesting character that made us care about him. There was suppose to be 3 Mulan films according to what I heard from some of the fired animators but Disney got so caught up in wanting to do 3d films that many of the 2d films were cancelled along with their development teams. The 3rd film would have dealt with Mushu. Remember how he kept making remarks about his best friend, Ping who stole his girl... Hee hee. We would have gotten to see what Ping and Mushu's old girlfriend would have look like if the 3rd film had been made. I feel cheated that we lost what would have been fun opportunity to see Mushu's past get explored.

Hell, we were even going to get a Mickey Mouse film... A MICKEY MOUSE FILM!! How often has the company mascot gotten his own film?! Not often that's for sure!

There were so many projects that they tossed out to start making 3d features. Many of the animators told me that they were confused about the change of direction at Disney. Hell, one of them even said, "Doesn't Eisner realize that 3d films cost more to do then 2d films do! He should have never pulled the plug on the 2d divisions."

Disney also canceled many other projects from what I have heard. At least nine in-development animated features and 5 others in early development were shelved. I had thought about selling my story/script Rising Dragons to Disney but changed my mind. Rising Dragons is the story of seven humans who are descendants of a species known as Celestial Dragons. The series would deal with these seven humans as they battle their way across the universe encountering different species of mystical creatures that exist on the Chinese Zodiac. They would have to learn to work together as a team and the whole time they would be transforming over the course of the series into their dragon forms.

The outline for this series is for it to run at least four seasons with a 90 to 110 minute feature length film to finish the story.

Kick ass. I definitely want to wtch that.

Well, I will be uploading some new info and details on these projects in the next few months. So be on the look out for the details.

^.=.^ Sweet, absolutely!!
Did you find someone to publish?

I have to say I agree with you on all accounts. I love 3D but not too much. I love 2D much better. Its just saying that is so wow no matter how its done. It can always be different. But with 3d they all look the same to me. I LIKE 3D but not all the time. Now you see it everywhere and well just kills.

You are absolutely correct, LordSnape. The 3d films are starting to become boring and stale. I like 2d animation but lately it has been 3d 24/7 and it is starting to become annoying. 3d was something fresh and different about... Hmm, I don't know... 5 years ago! Now, we be drowned in 3d animated features that only care about looking photo-realistic . I like looking at the detail of 3d animated films but come on... I do miss 2d films. 3d films are nice but I would like a break from them occasionally... thank you very much.

Well, I'm a very new 3D Artist and Animator. And from what I've read, you're not too fond of 3D stuff. I do know a little about traditional animation and can sketch rather well.

If you need an artist/designer, Note me. I'll try to put together some of my better works and attempt to make myself worthy to join a rogue studio of sorts.

Sorry I took so long to respond to you, Osprey... 2 years! Ugh... As you know I have been busy for some time. I am very interested in seeing your 3d works. Sorry I gave you the impression I hate 3d animation because I don't. I just don't like to see it overdone.

So feel free to submit any of your works to my e-mail address: jamieque@hotmail.com. I have tons of other e-mail addresses on aol, yahoo and google but it would take me forever to dig them up. So just use my hotmail address.