I’m flipping through my Sam’s Club flyer yesterday and came across this full page listing for the “Disney/Pixar Animation Lover’s Dream Vacation”. It gives special behind the scenes access to the lucky purchaser while helping a good cause with a donation to Juvenile Diabetes Research… Read More »The Ultimate Disney/Pixar Animation Tour could be yours
Tron by freres-hueon This is some amazing piece of film work by the brothers Hueon. It remakes the classic light-cycle duel from Disney’s 1982 classic film TRON, but with a twist. That twist is stop motion animation using paper and cardboard to recreate the duel.… Read More »Cardboard Tron
[ed note: I saw this article on another newsletter I receive and asked
permission to reprint it here. It’s a little different than the usual
fare I post here. But just as valid.]
I confess – I love movies, especially perception shifting ones. Actually I love what Del calls my "happy movies" and he keeps surprising me with a DVD to add to my collection.
When we visited my parents over Easter weekend I brought along his latest gift to me, a "happy movie" called "Enchanted" and we all watched it together. It was my second time through and once again I was enchanted.
But, since I had seen the story before I could look at it through my favorite lens, the perception shifting lens.
Sad news coming from Emeryville this week, Justin Wright, a promising artist working in the Story department at Pixar, died this week from a heart attack. Justin was a heart transplant survivor, but by all accounts had the heart of a lion. Just visit Justin’s… Read More »Promising Pixar Artist Dies at 27
Kevin Blair has penned an open letter to Disney Executives, Disneyland, Walt Disney Imagineering, and John Lasseter asking them to discard any plan to change "It’s A Small World", the attraction featuring art design by his mother, such as adding Disney characters (such as Mickey… Read More »Blair family says “Save It’s A Small World attraction”
You may find this hard to believe, I do, but 250 pieces of artwork from a 1960 touring exhibit of Disney Animation Art to promote the Sleeping Beauty movie were ‘found’ in a Janitor’s Closet in Japan. If “Janitor’s Closet” is a euphemism for Private… Read More »Millions of Dollars of Disney Animation Art found in Janitor’s Closet
If you haven’t seen the new WALL-E trailer, head on over to Apple.com and check it out. It does contain what some might consider spoilers. So if you’re staying spoiler, free, consider yourself warned. June 27th is the big day. Get ready for some robot… Read More »New WALL-E Trailer
John Horn of the Los Angeles Times has an extensive piece, in part about how “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!” director Jimmy Hayward used to be at Pixar, and how other people have left Pixar to pursue other opportunities. This is not unique to… Read More »Pixar Heard a Who