Josh D'Amaro named next Disney CEO

People who are CEOs of public companies tend not to be the tread water type.

With rapidly changing world/markets, aiming to keep a great brand great (versus growing) creates the risk of becoming a formerly great brand. You can be a consistently strong (but not growing) company that is very quickly bankrupt when the market/industry changes.

There are costs (and benefits) of being a public company. One of the costs in a focus on growth. Retirement savings (your own or through a pension) change significantly without growth.

Yes, obviously I'm not complaining about my 401k, but it sucks working in that environment because the growth focus comes at the expense of many other things.

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That is not to say Disney hasn't tried computer animations in recent years, but they still primarily hand draw the majority of their cartoons.

Zootopia 2, Moana 2, Wish, Strange World, Encanto, Raya, Frozen 2, Ralph Breaks, Moana, Zootopia, Big Hero 6... weren't those all computer animation?

Disney first introduced computer animation into their films in the Great Mouse Detective in 1986. Rescuers Down Under (1990) was the first Disney film to be created completely in computer animation. It would be later used as a tool in the hand drawn films of Beauty and the Beast (dining scene), Aladdin (flying scenes), Lion King (lions fighting), etc. Disney called the program CAPS (Computer Animation Production System) and it was developed in cooperation with Pixar.

To tie it to theme parks, the first use of the software was to insert Mickey Mouse on the top of Spaceship Earth in the opening sequence for "The Magical World of Disney". The team (which included individuals from Disney and Pixar) that developed the system won a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award in 1992.

Pixar was founded in 1986. Pixar's "A Bug's Life" came along in 1998.

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