Animation (film)

Animation would be a 2025 live-action/animation drama film directed by Ryan Coogler from an screenplay co-written with Sev Ohanian. Coogler and Ohanian would also produce the film alongside Michael B. Jordan. A collaboration between Outlier Society Productions and Pixar Animation Studios, the film would be Pixar's first live-action/animated hybrid film, and would center on the struggles of a group of hand-drawn animated characters following the rise of computer-animation. It would star the voices of Letita Wright, Anika Noni Rose, Jordan, and John Ratzenberger, while Michael Keaton would star in a live-action role as the film's main antagonist. Kris Bowers would compose the film's score.

Development on a Coogler-helmed live-action/animated film would begin at Pixar in early 2021, with Coogler attached to also write the script. Ohanian would join the film as co-writer and co-producer alongside Coogler in late 2021. Wright and Rose would join the film in mid-2021 as the stars, while Jordan would join as producer and co-star in late 2021, and Keaton would join in early 2022. Filming would begin in mid-2022. Coogler would describe the film as "more philosophycal and timely" than other live-action/animation hybrids, describing it as "a story about two different generations learning to co-exist, that also works as a story about how it is important for different cultures to live in peace".

Animation would be released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in August 23, 2025, and would become a critical and commercial success. Critics would praise the film as "a well-written exploration of diversity and progress", praising its screenplay, direction, performances, animation, visual effects, and score. The film would earn 1.2 billion dollars at the worldwide box-office. Animation would earn four Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Visual Effects.

Synopsis
In the 1990s, animation saw a big resurgence, with animated characters getting more job than they had in years. Their leader, Anne, couldn't be happier for her people. But, in 1995, all changed. Toy Story was release, and computer-animation began to raise, putting behind hand-drawn animation and causing hand-drawn characters to slowly become jobless and fall into poverty. In the present, Anabelle leads her people into trying to find new jobs, but it becomes fruitless, and they lose hope on getting back on track. Upon finally hitting bottom, Anabelle does the only thing left to do: Go to Sidney Animation Studios and continuosly ask for a new movie. The studio's owner, Sidney, initally refuses, believing hand-drawn animation to be a lost cause, but eventually relents when Anabelle insists too much, thougth under the condittion of a computer-animated character handling the project.