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It’s art versus the bottom line, the eternal battle. Any Hollywood suit can tell you how cost-intensive animation can be, particularly if it’s hand-drawn rather than computer-generated. In the pantheon of pricy old-school art, we have the following.
As long as it works for the story, it’s cool that Disney would replay the same poses, sketches, layouts. After all, even Leonardo reused the hell out of the Golden Rectangle. Yep, that’s the reason the Mona Lisa looks so smug: She knew he was just recycling and was going to take her husband for a fortune.
Some 124,200 notes later, Disney is outed as a thorough-going recycling industry, a piece of information surprisingly backed up by the actual recycling press.
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