December 12th, 2009 Discussion {0}
Disney Animation’s The Princess and the Frog is out this weekend, and it’s a fantastic return to a classic style of storytelling and animation. My personal highlights were …
June 2nd, 2008 Discussion {0}
A very interesting feature on the relationship between Pixar and Disney over at the New York Times. Firstly, there’s mention of Princess and the Frog (I hadn’t seen …
Plenty of interesting news and info at JimHillMedia as usual, including some very interesting rumours that apparently director Mark Dindal may have quit Disney Feature Animation just two …
November 5th, 2005 Discussion {0}
The first reviews don’t look very promising at all, unfortunately. I’ll wait to see it for myself before I really know how bad it is, but it sounds …
Well, Chicken Little is about to open in the US, and they’re understandably looking at this as the beginning of their “new era” in animation. Behind the scenes …
There’s a very interesting audio feature at Studio 360 featuring John Canemaker and Tony West talking about the end of hand drawn animation, the differences between the pencil …
There’s ann interesting and probably quite accurate (though cynical) view of Valiant and Disney’s prospects in the Feature Animation business over at The Motley Fool. As far as …
August 16th, 2005 Discussion {0}
There’s an article worth reading over at Jim Hill Media about the current state of negotiations between Pixar and Disney. Sounds like they’re talking again, and more than …
Rose glasses firmly in place, Disney has presented it’s version of life in the Feature Animation Studio over the last few years. In their 2005 Siggraph presentation, “The …
First appearing in the Wall Street Journal, an interesting short article by respected animation historian John Canemaker about Disney’s decision to abandon hand-drawn feature animation is now online. …