If you're going to spend all that time and effort making the characters look alive and move and behave in a realistic way, you've got to apply that to the environment around them and the things they interact with. Otherwise it undermines the whole illusion. Plane crashes - especially light planes - are very survivable unless you've got absolutely no control over the thing. If you're writing the script you can decide whether its a survivable crash or not.
As for the ship in the desert - looks like a dream sequence to me.
(, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:27, Reply)
juxtaposition of does work, snow white to the dwarfs/animals of the forest. The cel drawing of the characters to the lush paint work of the environments.
It's just not what you're used to right now. It's trying something new. It might fail, but at least they're giving it a go.
(, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:34, Reply)