I don’t read much of Michael Barrier’s blog, but I was completely floored by this comment:

What’s clear from WALL•E and Kung Fu Panda , as never before, is that computer animation is a dead end, a form of puppetry even more limited than stop motion.

This is the kind of statement that makes me think I’m wasting my time “blogging” about animation.  How could anyone in their right mind say something like this?  The animation in those two films is far from being a form of dead puppetry.  I can’t even form the right words to respond intelligently to it.  Strangely enough I can’t link to the original post to read any comments, but I’m not sure it would be worth it.

But what I was really surprised to read today was this comment from Michael Sporn:

When I first saw Toy Story, I realized that the possibility of computer animation replacing traditional animation might actually exist. Nothing prior to that point led me to think that. What I didn’t expect was that I was watching the high point of the medium.

Sporn’s blog is one I frequently link to as I find it a great resource for animation inspiration, so I don’t quite know what to make of this either.  How can anyone possibly say that Toy Story was the high point of computer animation?!  What about this film?

Really? Toy Story tops Ratatouille?

Mayerson, another blog I enjoy reading, has an excellent commentary on both posts and tends to be the voice of sanity in all this blogging madness.

The link to Barrier’s post is dead and Mayerson has closed comments on his post, so feel free to add yours here.