{"id":1687,"date":"2006-02-24T20:38:23","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T02:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/02\/24\/how-digital-animation-conquered-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2007-11-22T01:13:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T06:13:26","slug":"how-digital-animation-conquered-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/02\/24\/1687-how-digital-animation-conquered-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"How Digital Animation Conquered Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Old-timers in Hollywood sometimes talk about a golden age of animation, seven or eight decades ago, when cartoons were funny, beautiful, and perfect. But the truth is, toons have always been a bit of a backwater &#8211; the province of Disney kiddie flicks, Looney Tunes, maybe a rudimentary special effect. Until recently. These days, animation is everywhere. Pixar masterpieces like Toy Story and The Incredibles prove that a digitally animated movie can have more heart than a live-action film. Depictions of the fantastic &#8211; flying superheroes, ferocious velociraptors, battling starships &#8211; rely on software to maintain the audience&#8217;s suspension of disbelief. Even the most realistic movies call on animators to simulate an ungettable shot or to make a moment just a smidge more perfect. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.03\/animation.html\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old-timers in Hollywood sometimes talk about a golden age of animation, seven or eight decades ago, when cartoons&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,5,99,130,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-crew-news","category-lotr-movies","category-lotr-production","category-old-main-news","category-production-weta-digital"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-rd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}