“Feast”, a new short from Walt Disney Animation Studios, will make its world premiere at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival June 10, 2014. “Feast” is from first-time director Patrick Osborne (head of animation, “Paperman”). It tells the story of one man’s love life as seen through the eyes of…
A new Monsters University Short “Party Central” will open with Muppets Most Wanted when it hits theatres March 21! Disney has released two clips of the short to whet your appetite. Mike and Sulley return to Monsters University for a fun-filled weekend with their Oozma Kappa fraternity brothers. The gang…
Disney animator Eric Goldberg was animation supervisor for the Oscar nominated animated short “Get A Horse” starring Mickey Mouse and a cast of characters. In the following video demonstration, Goldberg draws Mickey and Minnie in full-on smooch mode. Cute: You can get “Get A Horse” on the Frozen DVD, which…
Time for Academy Award Nominations. Members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted and The Walt Disney Company racked up nominations in 6 categories with 7 overall nods (or 8 depending on how you count them). Best Original Song – Let it Go from Frozen Best Animated…
There are now 11 of the new Paul Rudish directed Mickey Mouse animated shorts available on YouTube. There will be 19 in the new series. So we have eight more to go. I really loved “Ghoul Friend” (Goofy Ghoul concept art above). Really a lot of classic Disney-gag style moments…
Walt Disney Animation Studios has just shared two animation cells from the never-before-seen Mickey Mouse short “Get A Horse!” There was some mystery about this black-and-white, hand-drawn short. We’re told it features Walt Disney himself as the voice of Mickey Mouse. but the providence of the animation itself is less…
The Disney Channel debuted two new Mickey Mouse animated shorts this weekend. Yodelburg and No Service feature a new style of animation and a new direction for Mickey Mouse that the Walt Disney Company hopes returns some relevance of the character to today’s youth. If you weren’t able to catch…
Saschka Unseld, director of Pixar’s latest animated short, dishes on the making of The Blue Umbrella including the use of the new Global Illumination System: [W]e used the Global Illumination technology that Monsters [University] used as well. So that helped us massively in getting everything lit more realistically. … [The…
