The A-HAA blog, which chronicle’s ASIFA’s attempt to document animation history, has posted some very beautiful scans of a Little Golden Book from 1949. The book features Uncle Remus Stories as retold by the Walt Disney Studios and illustrated by some of its best animators. Mary Blair provides the cover and Bill Justice and Al… Read More »Walt Disney’s Uncle Remus Stories illustrated!
You’ve seen Pirates of the Caribbean Cereal, Cars, Winnie the Pooh, etc., it’s been done you say. Not so fast says I. Sorry, still thinking about Johnny Depp watching me eat breakfast from the front of his yummy cereal box. Disney has partnered with General Mills to release a line of cereal that, wait for… Read More »Hey, This Cereal Tastes Like Cheese
Mario Furmanzyck, a fourth year student at CalArts, has a long interview with James Baxter. I’d like to see hand drawn start pushing some boundaries. Stylistically it was in a rut, looking back on itself a lot, even though I’m working on a project (Enchanted) that’s supposed to look back on the past. We’re trying… Read More »Interview with James Baxter, Animator
Here is my list of the Most Notable Disney Blogs of 2006. The volume of blogs and Disney related sites grew exponentially in the months bookending the Pixar acquisition. There has also been a small flurry of new blogs that opened this fall. Plus we have the older blogs (those from 2005) that are still… Read More »Top 10 Notable Disney Blogs of 2006
Remember 160 Animators recently being laid off in Burbank? Have you heard the news that Chris Sanders has been removed as Director of American Dog? How about the latest rumor that the boys from Pixar, John Lasseter and Ed Catmull, want Pixar to be the only computer generated animation studio at the Mouse House and… Read More »Disney’s possible return to 2D Hand Drawn Animation
Back in 1994 Jerry Beck of Cartoon Brew compiled a list of the top 50 cartoons of all time (anything thoughts of updating that list Jerry?). Some folks at CityRag have found links online to most of them. So enjoy your weekend with a look at some of the classics. Disney films on the list… Read More »50 Greatest Animated Cartoons of all Time?
Santa and Rudolph, the puppets from the Rankin — Bass TV special that is, were found abandoned in an attic a few years ago and through a series of strange events (including a trip to the PBS series ‘Antiques Roadshow’) found their way to a puppet restoration specialist. They’re now on display in NYC and… Read More »Santa and Rudolph Rescued
Sheigh Crabtree gets a piece printed in the Los Angeles Times about how performing in Mary Poppins sparked Dick Van Dyke’s interest in special effects, which is still a hobby of his over four decades later. After starring in 1968’s "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," in which he drove a flying car thanks to the magic… Read More »Dick Van Dyke Digs SFX Work