Response to Toward a Theory of Animation

I have never reallly thought about the production of a disney film. I'm not gonna lie, I know the words to "A whole new world". I like a good disney classic. This article made me feel like it was a cold industrial process. I felt like they were making animated films like a factory would make a car. To an extent that's very true. Because there are so many people working on the animation there is no animator, no artist. Though some of these films are very well made, they were well made by so many hands thus elimanating the personal touch of a single artist. I've mentioned it before but I've never truly enjoyed experimental cartoons (maybe I just haven't seen any really good ones). I have a new respect for the experimental animators. As a lone artist they are creating something uniques, without the constructs that a orthodox animated film does. These films don't have a narrative form. I think the more I see the more I'll enjoy them, this article has encouraged me to do just that.