History is moving as we speak : DreamWorks stops hand-drawn, hand-animated moviemaking in favor of CGI : http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=4b0bb549fd1567d9c1acdd4dad7937a8&threadid=76963 (thread points at article, full article text is in second posting) It's not the turn of human actors yet, but this definitely the writing on the wall, IMHO.