Lasseter Talks Princess and the Frog and 2D

The next hand-drawn animation the Disney Animation Studios will be creating will be Winnie The Pooh in the style of Walt Disney's original version.

Lasseter Talks Princess and the Frog and 2D
Source: http://www.awn.com/news/films/lasseter-talks-princess-and-frog-and-2d

"As we started working on this film and getting people to come back, it was so exciting because some of the artists left the studio that were working on hand-drawn animation because they didn't want to be re-trained for computer animation. Some of the artists were re-trained. So we brought both of those groups back together -- and never, ever in my career, have I worked with a group of artists that had more to prove to the world that this art form is spectacular…

"And I believe strongly that there are certain things you can do in 2D animation and still can't do in CG. I think, actually, when you look at PRINCESS AND THE FROG and the amazing animation of Louis the alligator, I'm not sure that would be quite the same way in computer animation. And I always say that if you look at SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, that the animation of the dwarfs themselves is something that's pretty much impossible to achieve in computer animation. That fluidity, that squash-and-stretch, that kind of stuff just works with hand-drawn animation. Also, the rich painted backgrounds, we took a look at the films that Walt Disney made because I asked them to aim high: I said, 'Let's make great art.' So we chose LADY AND THE TRAMP and BAMBI for the bayou scenes, the nature, the way that that was represented there, almost an Impressionistic point of view at times. And then with LADY AND THE TRAMP, the scenes of the humans and the architecture of the character design is just the pinnacle of what was Disney's personal style."