Keeping 2D Movies Alive With Hullabaloo

   3D animation seems to be dominating the world's media today. Causing 2D to die with it's success. Or at least that's what James Lopez, a veteran Disney animator, believes. James Lopez has worked on many classic 2D Disney animated films such as, Lion King, Pocahontas, and Paperman. But he has never done anything that was his own. And with 2D becoming less popular in cinema he thinks it's the best time to let his world blossom and bring back the classic hand drawn animation. 

   Hulaballoo is a story with steampunk and female protagonists. The main character spends the story searching for her missing father who invents many steam-powered machines that she uses on her adventures to find him. Lopez hopes it could develop into a television show or even a feature length movie. Him and a few other veteran animators, like Rick Farmiloe who worked on Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, plan to get this project going and have raised the money to support it and then some. 

   To me, this story idea is very exciting and I hope I get to see the end result as either an animated short, t.v. show, or a movie. Though I don't fully believe that 2D animation is a dying art. It's not seen often in movies anymore, but is still a preference for cartoons. But hopefully Hullabaloo can bring back the 2D animation that is fading fast in theaters. Because there really is something in 2D films that 3D just can't capture.