Just wanted to note that Sleeping Beauty was released 21 years after Snow White was released.
Sleeping Beauty, 1959
Snow White, 1938
Sleeping Beauty, 1959
Snow White, 1938
The same amount of time had passed in between Toy Story and Finding Dory:
Finding Dory, 2016
Toy Story, 1995
Finding Dory, 2016
Toy Story, 1995
I’m guessing in the first 20 years of Disney animated films the artists were more concerned with advancing style than they were technology. Once they figured out the techniques of 2D animation, style and artistry became the focus.
In the first 20+ years of CG animation the focus has been technology over artistry. “Look how realistic we can make: plastic/wood, grass, fur, water, lighting, different water, wet fur, clothing, wet clothing, explosions, humans...”
In the last 5 years pretty much every CG technological mountain has been conquered. Right? When the artists no longer have limits to what they can create in CG, they can completely focus on style. Spiderverse is the perfect example:
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018
I think Spiderverse was just scratching the surface of what CG artists can do stylistically and it makes me really excited for the future of CG animation.
-Jake