Search interest in has spiked recently for two reasons:
In the summer of 1999, as the world braced for the Y2K bug and the nu-metal soundtrack of The Matrix , Walt Disney Feature Animation released an outlier. Tarzan was the studio’s 37th animated feature, and in many ways, its last traditional masterpiece. Sandwiched between the mythological grandeur of Hercules (1997) and the digital revolution of Dinosaur (2000), Tarzan represented a high-water mark for hand-drawn artistry, Philadelphia-born rock music, and emotional storytelling.
The term Tarzan 1999 Archive refers to two distinct collections:
One of the most significant pieces of the Tarzan archive is the development of . Before 1999, animated characters usually moved against flat, two-dimensional backgrounds. To capture Tarzan’s "tree-surfing" (inspired by professional skateboarder Tony Hawk), Disney engineers created software that allowed artists to paint 3D environments that retained a hand-painted look.
