The Glen Keane directed Disney movie Rapunzel has apparently been renamed. According to The Wall Street Journal, the title is now Rapunzel Unbraided. The Journal takes an in-depth look at Disney’s switch from traditional hand drawn animation to computer animation. The story follows traditional animator Keane’s journey as he trades in his pencils for pixels. “Keane and other artists often didn’t like what they saw on screen in computer animation. While they admired the storytelling and characters in the computer-generated movies made by Pixar and others, many of them saw the art itself as crude, especially in its attempts to capture the complexity of a human form”. In fact, Keane at one point told Eisner Rapunzel “probably couldn’t be done to his liking. When they pressed him harder, however, he was intrigued by the challenge”. Keane says, “I feel like about 30 years ago, when I was first at Disney just learning”. Variety reported in April of 2003 that Adam and Melanie Wilson were writing the script. Rapunzel Unbraided won’t hit theatres until 2007 at the earliest. [paid subscription required for The Wall Street Journal – read the article here without a subscription]

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