Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Trade paper The Hollywood Reporter has weighed in with another positive review of The Princess and the Frog. So far so good for this December release....
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Coming Soon has posted a terrific article on the voice cast of The Fantastic Mr. Fox (in theaters tomorrow). With the script approved, the team...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Fast Company just posted a new article on DreamWorks Animation overlord Jeffrey Katzenberg. Here's your representative sampling... "I'm certain...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle has posted their review of Disney's The Princess and the Frog, and the news is good -- three out of four stars. From the...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Embedded below is an unreleased (and technically unproduced) Pixar short. What you'll be seeing is a rough version which was probably done for...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Dick Huemer began his animation career in his native New York in 1916. His first job -- at age 18 -- was for industry pioneer Raoul Barre. In 1923, he...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
In our second L.A. Times piece of the day, Disney biographer, Neal Gabler addresses the question of Walt's supposed racism. Here are a couple of...
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Directors John Musker and Ron Clements did a brief Q&A with the L.A. Times to promote their forthcoming The Princess and the Frog (which debuts in...
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
In animation, the Story Department is responsible for translating the concept of the film into sequential images called a storyboard. This...
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
In Zen Buddhism, a “koan” is a story or question -- often without a straightforward answer -- which is designed to shock the mind into...
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