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“People in Hollywood are so eager to hop on bandwagons, ready to condemn traditional animation to the scrap heap,” complained critic Leonard Maltin in 2003. … the new Hollywood truism is that Bambi is dead, that kids hooked on the wizardry of 3D computer games no longer want to watch quaint old-fashioned characters against painted backdrops. Andrew Stanton ( Nemo) said that Pixar’s victory, and the fall of 2D features in Hollywood, was “frustrating and bittersweet for us” — as people who loved the classics but saw problems in the new films.

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