Why does Pixars new Movie Brave look so..meh?

[NightDragon83]

Boutros said:

noname2200 said:

Boutros said:

Those movies you listed are spreaded on over 50 years though.

It's normal for movies to look similar in a short time period because they all draw inspiration from one another and they all use the same kind of technology.

Excluding 101 and Winnie the Pooh, they're all in the same decade. Aladdin and Lion King are just two years apart, while Mulan and Hercules were separated by just one year. Cheebee's right: there was much more variation in animation before CG became the mainstay.

Well Dumbo, Pinocchio and Snow White all look the same to me...

I mean I guess it's just very subjective.

Generally speaking there's about 4 distinct generations of Disney style and animation in their feature length films.  The first is from Snow White through the 50's up till Sleeping Beauty, with the "classic" Disney animation style.  Then in the 60s and 70s they started looking a bit more like saturday morning cartoons with their simplistic backgrounds (see The Aristocats, 101, etc.)  Then they went into a sort of experimental period in the 80s mixing some classic animation with the more modern stuff and early computer animation (Fox and Hound to Rescuers Down Under).  Then finally came the "renaissance period" which started with Little Mermaid and lasted up until Tarzan, when Disney stopped annually releasing hand-drawn films in theaters.