Disney Animators Form New Company

VOANews.com: "The Walt Disney Company, the entertainment powerhouse that began more than seventy years ago with a little cartoon character named Mickey Mouse, is getting out of the traditional cartoon business. The company is closing one of its legendary animation studios in Orlando, Florida, laying off most of its once 2,000-strong army of artists, and relocating the rest to company headquarters in Burbank, California. The move reflects the growing dominance of computer-based digital animation over the painstaking hand-drawn animation methods that Disney studios pioneered. But some of Disney's traditional animators aren't ready to hang up their pens and brushes. A group of them has decided to form a new company, one that that will work exclusively with 'hand-drawn' animation techniques."