One of those 1045 cable channels is having a week celebrating the Selachimorpha. Baymax, the robot from Disney’s “Big Hero 6,” has a few words of caution for those who might want to partake:
Cute, eh? Can’t get enough of Baymax.
Full Synopsis below the jump:
Every rebellion has its starting point. How it got started on Lothal is the moment shared in this special 7 minute preview of Star Wars Rebels. As the story goes, the Empire arrives on Lothal — bringing tyranny with them. Imperials and stormtroopers establish an… Read More »Star Wars Rebels extended preview
Update: Looks like McFarland has been pushed back to a February 20th, 2015 release date.
As mentioned earlier today, Disney is having a great year at the box office. Four more chances remain to make it an even better one. Here are the remaining films of 2014 from Walt Disney Studios.
October 10th – Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Disney’s “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life—a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him. He soon learns that he’s not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette) and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Anyone who says there is no such thing as a bad day just hasn’t had one.
“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” directed by Independent Spirit Award-winner Miguel Arteta (“The Good Girl,” “Cedar Rapids,” “Youth in Revolt”) from a screenplay by Rob Lieber, is a 21 Laps Entertainment/Jim Henson Company production.
It was a sad day when Walt Disney Animation Studios let the vast majority of its traditional hand-drawn animation staff go. Those who didn’t transition to digital had to find jobs at other studios or in other lines of business. But that’s not to say… Read More »Disney Animation Continues Life Drawing Class Tradition
Sad news from Japan. Studio Ghibli has announced that with the completion of their most recent film, they will be closing the animation department, at least temporarily, and become a smaller studio focused on their existing properties. They don’t rule out making new films in… Read More »Studio Ghibli to pause, re-evaluate its future
Today is National Sister’s Day. Like Anna and Elsa, two of America’s favorites from Disney’s “Frozen,” the role of sisters has played a big part of many animated Disney features. Here’s a fun little tribute to Disney sisters I found on Youtube. It features “On… Read More »National Sisters Day
James Lopez is a former Disney animator and an instructor at CalArts. He did not survive last year’s purge of hand drawn animators from Walt Disney Animation. But maybe there’s hope that one day Disney will bring that art form back in house.
In the meantime, Lopez is working on his own to keep the tradition and skill of hand drawn animation alive. One of his projects will be near and dear to every Disneyland fan’s heart – an animated recreation of the yesterland attraction ‘America Sings.’
We previously highlighted the near finished version of sequence one from Lopez. He just shared sequence 2 & 3, both storyboard work-in-progress, from his ‘America Sings’ project. The end goal will be an animated recreation of the much beloved Disneyland attraction.
Sequence 2:
Disney has renewed the new animated short series of Mickey Mouse cartoons for another year. That probably makes Paul Rudish, whose vision and artistic style, can help explain the success of the series. Here Rudish shows to draw a Mickey Mouse, which draws its inspiration from the early Mickeys that Walt himself drew.
Below the jump is part of a longer animation festival interview where Rudish discusses modernizing Mickey Mouse:
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