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Death of the Hand-Drawn

August 11, 2005 - 7:33 am - by Roger L Simon
Syl
2005-08-11 17:33:12

Kevin

I still disagree. I’m not dissing you personally, this is just something that annoys me no end.

There’s this fantasy that technology is some kind of demon robbing people of themselves. And the notion that the soul of the artist may come through _despite_ the machines is just silly.

Come on.

Technology is nothing more than new tools. It’s not a beast come to devour us or our souls.

Technology is fine for bloggers but not for artists? Give me a break.

It’s fine to mourn the passing of great artists, artisans, and their styles, and I do so myself. But to think that there may never be the same quality again because of something vague, mysterious, and sinister is bunk.

What DID pass that we won’t get back again has nothing to do with how the artists did their work for Disney. There was an innocence back then that we’ve lost.

Nobody could do Bambi today.

But that’s not because of computers.