Disney's The Princess and the Frog came out in theaters on December 10, 2009 with much anticipation. Before being released, critics were curious to see how audiences would react. If you already don't know, this film is a return to traditional hand-drawn animation for Disney after many years of CG. There has been this misconception that the artform was dead and that only CG was the future. The common reasoning behind this was that audiences were no longer interested in seeing hand-drawn animation after the success of 3-D.
After the string of successes from Pixar and others whose films happened to be in 3D, some people studying the business model came to the conclusion that only the implementation of 3D would be viable financially and that hand-drawn was a thing of the past. Thankfully, big names like John Lasseter believe that story and character are the most important thing regardless of the medium used to get those points across. Films are successful because audiences care about the characters, not the equipment used to make the movie.
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