STAYING tooned.(creation of Disney's Atlantis; The Lost Empire)(Company Business and Marketing)

DISNEY BLENDS 3D GRAPHICS INTO A FLAT-SHADED, COMIC-BOOK STYLE ADVENTURE FILM

At first glance, the animated feature Atlantis; The Lost Empire looks like a traditional cel animation from Disney. As those who have seen the movie can attest, however, this film breaks with the past in a number of interesting ways. For example, there are no song and dance numbers and no cute talking animals. But what most moviegoers won't know is that even though the film looks like cel animation, it has more 3D elements in more shots than any "traditional" animation created at Disney Feature Animation before it.

Set around 1914, Atlantis follows the adventures of a scholarly ...